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AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region, allowing customers in the Middle East to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency while keeping their data within the Region to meet data residency requirements. Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service. […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Streams expands AWS PrivateLink support to FIPS endpoints
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for all available Amazon DynamoDB Streams Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints in US and Canada commercial AWS Regions. With this launch, you can establish a private connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon DynamoDB Streams FIPS endpoints instead of connecting over the public internet, helping […]
AWS – Amazon ECS announces non-root container support for managed EBS volumes
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports mounting Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes to containers running as non-root users. With this launch, ECS automatically configures the EBS volume’s file system permissions to allow non-root users to read and write data securely, while preserving the root-level ownership of the volume. This enhancement simplifies security-first container […]
AWS – AWS B2B Data Interchange is now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) Region
Customers in AWS Europe (Ireland) Region can now use AWS B2B Data Interchange to build highly customizable, scalable and cost-efficient EDI workloads. AWS B2B Data Interchange automates validation, transformation, and generation of EDI files such as ANSI X12 documents to and from JSON and XML data formats. With this launch, you can use AWS B2B […]
GCP – Announcing Ironwood TPUs General Availability and new Axion VMs to power the age of inference
Today’s frontier models, including Google’s Gemini, Veo, Imagen, and Anthropic’s Claude train and serve on Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). For many organizations, the focus is shifting from training these models to powering useful, responsive interactions with them. Constantly shifting model architectures, the rise of agentic workflows, plus near-exponential growth in demand for compute, define this […]
GCP – Announcing Axion C4A metal: Arm-based Axion VMs for specialized use cases
Today, we are thrilled to announce C4A metal, our first bare metal instance running on Google Axion processors, available in preview soon. C4A metal is designed for specialized workloads that require direct hardware access and Arm®-native compatibility. Now, organizations running environments such as Android development, automotive simulation, CI/CD pipelines, security workloads, and custom hypervisors can […]
GCP – Unlock 2x better price-performance with Axion-based N4A VMs, now in preview
Decision makers and builders today face a constant challenge: managing rising cloud costs while delivering the performance their customers demand. As applications evolve to use scale-out microservices and handle ever-growing data volumes, organizations need maximum efficiency from their underlying infrastructure to support their growing general-purpose workloads. To meet this need, we’re excited to announce our […]
GCP – From silicon to softmax: Inside the Ironwood AI stack
As machine learning models continue to scale, a specialized, co-designed hardware and software stack is no longer optional, it’s critical. Ironwood, our latest generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), is the cutting-edge hardware behind advanced models like Gemini and Nano Banana, from massive-scale training to high-throughput, low-latency inference. This blog details the core components of Google’s […]
GCP – Your First AI Application is Easier Than You Think
If you’re a developer, you’ve seen generative AI everywhere. It can feel like a complex world of models and advanced concepts. It can be difficult to know where to actually start. The good news is that building your first AI-powered application is more accessible than you might imagine. You don’t need to be an AI expert […]
AWS – AWS End User Messaging SMS launches Carrier Lookup
Starting today, AWS End User Messaging customers can now lookup carrier information related to a phone number including the country, number type, dialing code, and mobile network and carrier codes. With Carrier Lookup, you can increase deliverability by checking important information about a phone number before you start sending messages, avoiding sending messages to the […]
