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GCP – 65,000 nodes and counting: Google Kubernetes Engine is ready for trillion-parameter AI models
As generative AI evolves, we’re beginning to see the transformative potential it is having across industries and our lives. And as large language models (LLMs) increase in size — current models are reaching hundreds of billions of parameters, and the most advanced ones are approaching 2 trillion — the need for computational power will only […]
GCP – Emerging Threats: Cybersecurity Forecast 2025
Every November, we start sharing forward-looking insights on threats and other cybersecurity topics to help organizations and defenders prepare for the year ahead. The Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 report, available today, plays a big role in helping us accomplish this mission. This year’s report draws on insights directly from Google Cloud’s security leaders, as well as […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB announces user experience enhancements to organize your tables in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon DynamoDB now enables customers to easily find frequently used tables in the DynamoDB console in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers can favorite their tables in the console’s tables page for quicker table access. Customers can click the favorites icon to view their favorited tables in the console’s tables page. With this update, customers […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Amazon DynamoDB Streams as a source
Today, AWS announced support for a new Apache Flink connector for Amazon DynamoDB. The new connector, contributed by AWS for the Apache Flink open source project, adds Amazon DynamoDB Streams as a new source for Apache Flink. You can now process DynamoDB streams events with Apache Flink, a popular framework and engine for processing and […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Serverless is now available in 6 additional AWS Regions
Amazon Neptune Serverless is now available in the Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions. Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service for building and running applications with highly connected datasets, such as knowledge graphs, […]
AWS – Amazon EBS now supports detailed performance statistics on EBS volume health
Today, Amazon announced the availability of detailed performance statistics for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. This new capability provides you with real-time visibility into the performance of your EBS volumes, making it easier to monitor the health of your storage resources and take actions sooner. With detailed performance statistics, you can access 11 metrics […]
AWS – Announcing financing program for AWS Marketplace purchases for select US customers
Today, AWS announces the availability of a new financing program supported by PNC Vendor Finance, enabling select customers in the United States (US) to finance AWS Marketplace software purchases directly from the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. For the first time, select US customers can apply for, utilize, and manage financing within the console […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports Windows Docker builds in reserved capacity fleets
AWS CodeBuild now supports building Windows docker images in reserved capacity fleets. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Additionally, you can bring in your own Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in reserved capacity for Linux and Windows platforms. This enables […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks expands to new regions
Today, Amazon Web Services announces that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML is available for P5 instances in two new regions: US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). You can use EC2 Capacity Blocks to reserve highly sought-after GPU instances in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters for a future date for the amount […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is now available in Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in Asia Pacific (Kuala Lumpur) Region to build real-time stream processing applications. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing […]