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GCP – GKE: From containers to agents, the unified platform for every modern workload
The past decade of cloud native infrastructure has been defined by relentless change — from containerization and microservices to the rise of generative AI. Through every shift, Kubernetes has been the constant, delivering stability and a uniform, scalable operational model for both applications and infrastructure. As Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) celebrates its 10th anniversary, its […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M8a Instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches, enabling you to perform multiple write operations as a single atomic transaction. With Logged Batches, you can ensure that either all operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) within a batch succeed or none of them do, maintaining data consistency across multiple rows and tables within a keyspace. This […]
GCP – Supporting Viksit Bharat: Announcing our newest AI investments in India
India’s developer community, vibrant startup ecosystem, and leading enterprises are embracing AI with incredible speed. To meet this moment for India, we are investing in powerful, locally-available tools in India that can help foster a diverse ecosystem, and ensure our platform delivers the controls you need for compliance and AI sovereignty. Today, we’re announcing a […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS
AWS Backup now supports Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), providing a fully-managed, centralized solution for backing up EKS cluster state and persistent application data. You can now use AWS Backup to help protect your entire EKS environments through a centralized, policy-driven backup service. You now get comprehensive data protection capabilities through AWS Backup across your […]
AWS – MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost, and with no action required
Effective today, all new Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers will support Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost. This new capability makes it effortless for customers to execute automatic partition balancing operations when scaling their Kafka clusters up or down. Intelligent Rebalancing maximizes the capacity utilization of MSK Express-based clusters by optimally rebalancing Kafka […]
GCP – Zeotap’s big win: 46% TCO reduction and enhanced real-time performance with Bigtable
In today’s fast-paced, data-driven landscape, the ability to process, analyze, and act on vast amounts of data in real time is paramount. For businesses aiming to deliver personalized customer experiences and optimize operations, the choice of database technology is a critical decision. At Zeotap — a leading Customer Data Platform (CDP) — we empower enterprises […]
GCP – N4D now GA: Gain up to 3.5x price-performance for scale-out workloads
In today’s competitive environment, IT leaders are faced with supporting application scale, rolling out more features, and enabling high-bar customer experiences. This creates a direct and complex challenge: finding the right balance between performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) for the general-purpose workloads that power everyday business operations. Today, we are announcing the general […]
GCP – Running high-scale reinforcement learning (RL) for LLMs on GKE
As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve, Reinforcement Learning (RL) is becoming the crucial technique for aligning powerful models with human preferences and complex task objectives. However, enterprises that need to implement and scale RL for LLMs are facing infrastructure challenges. The primary hurdles include the memory contention from concurrently hosting multiple large models (such as […]
GCP – Achieve better AI-powered code reviews using new memory capabilities on Gemini Code Assist
The best feedback during a code review is specific, consistent, and understands the history of a project. However, AI code review agents today are often stateless; they have no memory of past interactions. This means you might find the same feedback on new pull requests that you’ve rejected before, because the agent can’t learn from […]