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AWS – Amazon EC2 G6f instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6f instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions. G6f instances can be used for a wide range of graphics workloads. G6f instances offer GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of a GPU with 3 GB of […]
AWS – Service Connect cross-account support available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon ECS Service Connect now supports seamless communication between services residing in different AWS accounts through integration with AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). This enhancement simplifies resource sharing, reduces duplication, and promotes consistent service-to-service communication across environments for organizations with multi-account architectures. Amazon ECS Service Connect leverages AWS Cloud Map namespaces for storing information […]
AWS – Amazon U7i instances now available in Europe (Stockholm) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB of memory (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. U7i-12tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-12tb instances offer 12TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge now supports targeting SQS fair queues
Amazon EventBridge now supports Amazon SQS fair queues as targets, enabling you to build more responsive event-driven applications. You can now leverage SQSs improved message distribution across consumer groups and mitigate the noisy neighbor impact in multi-tenant messaging systems. This enhancement allows EventBridge to send events directly to SQS fair queues. With fair queues, multiple […]
AWS – Application loadbalancer support client credential flow with JWT verification
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces JWT Verification for Application Load Balancer (ALB), enabling secure machine-to-machine (M2M) and service-to-service (S2S) communications. This feature allows ALB to verify JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) included in request headers, validating token signatures, expiration times, and claims without requiring modifications to application code. By offloading OAuth 2.0 token validation to ALB, […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache supports M7g and R7g Graviton3-based nodes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton3-based M7g and R7g node families in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions (US-East, US-West). ElastiCache Graviton3 nodes deliver improved price-performance compared to Graviton2. As an example, when running ElastiCache for Redis OSS on an R7g.4xlarge node, you can achieve up to 28% increased throughput (read and write operations per second) and […]
AWS – AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) launches new test scenarios for partial failures
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) now offers two new scenarios that help you proactively test how your applications handle partial disruptions within and across Availability Zones (AZs). These disruptions, often called gray failures, are more common than complete outages and can be particularly challenging to detect and mitigate. The FIS scenario library provides AWS-created, pre-defined […]
GCP – Bringing connected and AI-powered work experiences across our platforms and devices
The way we work is rapidly transforming, and AI is quickly becoming a connection point across workflows and tasks both big and small. Whether it’s saving time by converting automated meeting notes into a follow-up email to a client, or getting help with brainstorming your next big campaign idea, Generative AI, driven by models like […]
GCP – Introducing the Emerging Threats Center in Google Security Operations
When a major vulnerability makes headlines, CISOs want to know fast if their organization is impacted and prepared. Getting the correct answer is often a time-consuming and human-intensive process that can take days or weeks, leaving open a dangerous window of unknown exposure. To help close that gap, today we’re introducing the Emerging Threats Center […]
GCP – Announcing BigQuery-managed AI functions for better SQL
For decades, SQL has been the universal language for data analysis, offering access to analytics on structured data. Large Language Models (LLMs) like Gemini now provide a path to get nuanced insights from unstructured data such as text, image and video. However, integrating LLMs into standard SQL flow requires data movement, at least some prompt […]