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AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams launches On-demand Advantage mode
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams launches On-demand Advantage, so customers can warm on-demand streams to handle instant throughput increases up to 10GB or 10 million events per second, eliminating the need to over-provision or build custom scaling solutions. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Streams adds AWS Health notifications for aging resources
Amazon GameLift Streams is now integrated with AWS Health and will provide automated notifications about aging stream groups. Customers are sent regular reminders via AWS Health to re-create their stream groups starting as early as the 45th day to the 335th day from the stream group creation date. Stream groups older than 180 days are […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Route 53 Resolver now supports AWS PrivateLink. Customers can now access and manage Route 53 Resolver and all the related features (Resolver endpoints, Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, Resolver Query Logging, Resolver for AWS Outposts) privately, without going through the public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely over the Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to securely access DAX management APIs such as CreateCluster, DescribeClusters, and DeleteCluster over private IP addresses within your virtual private cloud (VPC). DAX clusters already run inside your VPC, and all data plane operations like GetItem and Query are handled privately within the VPC. With […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports FIPS 140-3 compliant endpoints
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 compliant endpoints, helping companies contracting with the US federal governments meet the FIPS security requirement to encrypt sensitive data in supported Regions. With this launch, you can use Aurora DSQL for workloads that require a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module when sending requests over […]
AWS – AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity for AWS Services
AWS PrivateLink now supports native cross-region connectivity to AWS services. Until now, Interface VPC endpoints only supported connectivity to AWS services in the same Region. This launch enables customers to connect to select AWS services hosted in other Regions of the same AWS partition over Interface endpoints. As a service consumer, you can access Amazon […]
GCP – Talking shop: 7 ways conversational AI agents open up possibilities for designers and developers
Remember when online shopping meant typing specific keywords into a rigid search bar and endlessly scrolling through irrelevant results? Traditional e-commerce search, while common, helps only about 1 in 10 consumers find exactly what they’re looking for. For designers and developers, this opens up possibilities to deliver on what users expect in the AI era. […]
GCP – Accelerating AI inferencing with external KV Cache on Managed Lustre
The demand for AI inference infrastructure is accelerating, with market spend expected to soon surpass investment in training the models themselves. This growth is driven by the demand for richer experiences, particularly through support for larger context windows and the rise of agentic AI. As organizations aim to improve user experience while optimizing costs, efficient […]
GCP – Introducing the Log Analytics query builder: Easier analytics for your logs
As a DevOps engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or application developer, how many times have you wrestled with complex queries to get the insights you need? Have you wished that there was an easier way to troubleshoot, identify root causes, and verify fixes, without being a SQL expert? We hear you loud and clear. That’s why […]
GCP – Why GKE & Gemini CLI are better together
Cloud-native development is constantly evolving, and at Google, we’re dedicated to empowering developers and operators with tools that are both powerful and intuitive. Today, we’re thrilled to dive into how the Gemini CLI and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) are coming together with the new open-sourcing of the GKE Gemini CLI extension. This extension brings GKE […]