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GCP – How to enable Secure Boot for your AI workloads
As organizations race to deploy powerful GPU-accelerated workloads, they might overlook a foundational step: ensuring the integrity of the system from the very moment it turns on. Threat actors, however, have not overlooked this. They increasingly target the boot process with sophisticated malware like bootkits, which seize control before any traditional security software can load […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols (in preview)
Amazon CloudWatch announces support for both the JSON and Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) protocols in the CloudWatch SDK, enabling lower latency and improved performance for CloudWatch customers. The SDK will automatically use JSON or CBOR as its new default communication protocol, offering customers a lower end-to-end processing latency as well as reduced payload sizes, […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports linked servers with Oracle OLEDB Driver version 21.16
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports linked servers with Oracle OLEDB Driver version 21.16. Linked servers allow customers to access external datasources from within their Amazon RDS for SQL Server database. Linked servers with Oracle OLEDB can be used in SQL Server Standard or Enterprise Editions, and with SQL Server 2017, 2019, or 2022 […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon DynamoDB local major version release version 3.0.0
Today, DynamoDB local, the downloadable version of Amazon DynamoDB, migrates to AWS SDK for Java 2.x. In alignment with our SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, this migration ensures DynamoDB local stays up-to-date in security, compatibility, and stability for developers developing and testing their DynamoDB applications locally. With the new DynamoDB local version 3.0.0, now you […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms ML now supports Parquet file format
Starting today, AWS Clean Rooms now supports training custom ML models on data in Parquet file format. Parquet is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format that provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance. With AWS Clean Rooms ML custom modeling, you and your partners can train a custom ML model […]
AWS – Amazon ECS enables built-in blue/green deployments
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announces new features that make software updates for your containerized applications safer, allowing you to ship software faster and with high confidence, without needing to build custom deployment tooling. Amazon ECS now supports a built-in blue/green deployment strategy and deployment lifecycle hooks that allow you to test new application […]
AWS – Amazon SNS enhances cross-Region delivery capabilities
We’re excited to announce that Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) has expanded its cross-Region delivery capabilities, providing more flexibility for customers using opt-in Regions. This update brings three improvements: Amazon SNS to Amazon SQS delivery between opt-in Regions: You can now deliver messages from an Amazon SNS topic in one opt-in Region to an […]
AWS – AWS Lambda enables developers to debug functions running in the cloud from VS Code IDE
AWS Lambda now supports remote debugging in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), enabling developers to debug their Lambda functions running in the cloud directly from their local IDE. With this new capability, developers can use familiar debugging tools like breakpoints, variable inspection, and step-through debugging with functions deployed in the cloud without modifying their existing […]
AWS – AWS Lambda announces low latency processing for Kafka events
AWS Lambda now supports low latency (sub 100ms) event processing for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka event sources in Provisioned mode for Kafka ESM. Customers can now set their MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds parameter to 0 in Kafka ESM configurations, enabling real-time processing of Kafka events. This enhancement significantly reduces end-to-end […]
AWS – AWS Lambda bridges console to VS Code for unified serverless development experience
AWS Lambda now enables seamless transition from console to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) IDE. This new console-to-IDE integration eliminates the friction between cloud and local development environments for serverless applications. Developers starting in the console require more sophisticated development capabilities of local IDE as applications evolve in complexity. Previously, they had to manually configure […]