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GCP – BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA
While petabyte-scale data warehouses are becoming more common, getting the performance you need without escalating costs and effort remain key challenges, even in a modern cloud data warehouse. While many data warehouse platform providers continue to work on these challenges, BigQuery has already moved past petabyte-scale data warehouses to petabyte-scale tables. In fact, some BigQuery […]
AWS – AWS WAF now includes free WAF Vended Logs based on request volume
AWS WAF now includes 500 MB of CloudWatch Logs Vended Logs Ingestion for every 1 million WAF requests processed, at no additional cost. This helps customers better manage their WAF logging costs while maintaining comprehensive security visibility. WAF logs in CloudWatch provide valuable insights for security analysis, compliance, and troubleshooting. Customers can leverage CloudWatch’s advanced […]
AWS – Announcing Managed Tiered Checkpointing for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Today, Amazon Web Service (AWS) announces the general availability of managed tiered checkpointing for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, a new capability designed to reduce model recovery time and minimize loss in training progress. As AI training scales, the likelihood of infrastructure failures increases, making efficient checkpointing critical. Traditional checkpointing methods can be slow and resource-intensive, especially […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio announces the general availability of the Custom Blueprints
Today, AWS announced the general availability of Custom Blueprints, a new feature in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker. This feature allows customers to use their own managed policies as per their corporate security requirements to create a project role in SageMaker Unified Studio. Customers can either replace the […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces support for IPv6 origins
Amazon CloudFront expands its IPv6 capabilities by introducing support for IPv6 connectivity to origin servers, allowing customers to implement end-to-end IPv6 content delivery for their web applications. Support for IPv6 origins enables customers to send IPv6 traffic all the way to their origins, allowing them to meet their architectural and regulatory requirements for IPv6 adoption. […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Analytics is now supported as a graph store in NetworkX
Today, we are announcing a new capability that NetworkX now supports Neptune Analytics as a graph store. With this release, developers can continue to use familiar NetworkX APIs while automatically offloading graph algorithm workloads to Neptune’s scalable, high-performance analytics engine. This makes it simple to scale graph computations on demand without refactoring code, combining the […]
GCP – Driving for the Horizon: New Android Automotive solution on cloud offers faster builds
The automotive industry is in the midst of a profound transformation, accelerating towards an era of software-defined vehicles (SDVs). This shift, however, presents significant challenges for manufacturers and suppliers alike. Their priority is making great vehicles, not great software, though the latter now contributes — and is increasingly a necessity — to achieve the former. […]
AWS – Introducing improved AI assistance in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
Today, we are announcing improvements to the Amazon Q Developer chat experience in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Jupyter notebooks and adding Amazon Q Developer in the command line in Jupyter notebooks and Code Editor. By integrating with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, Amazon Q Developer is aware of your SageMaker Unified Studio project resources, including […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports the latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP3 KB5063762 (RDS version 13.00.6465.1.v1), SQL Server 2017 CU31 KB5063759 (RDS version 14.00.3500.1.v1), SQL Server 2019 CU32 KB5063757 (RDS version 15.00.4440.1.v1) and SQL Server […]
AWS – MediaConvert now supports Time-Addressable Media Store (TAMS)
AWS Elemental MediaConvert now integrates with Time-Addressable Media Store (TAMS), enabling customers to temporally reference and extract media asset segments. This capability allows MediaConvert customers to work more efficiently meet quick turn around deadlines. With TAMS integration, customers can extract highlights from live events for near real-time social media publishing, repurpose archived broadcast content into […]