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AWS – AWS announces IPv6 support for EC2 Public DNS names
EC2 Public DNS names can now resolve to IPv6 Global Unicast Address (AAAA record) associated with your EC2 instances and Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI). This allows customers to publicly access their IPv6-enabled Amazon EC2 instances over IPv6, using EC2 Public DNS names. Prior to this, EC2 Public DNS name resolved to the Public IPv4 address […]
GCP – Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI
Today, we’re expanding the choice of third-party models available in Vertex AI Model Garden with the addition of Anthropic’s newest generation of the Claude model family: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 are hybrid reasoning models, meaning they offer modes for near-instant responses and extended thinking […]
GCP – How Confidential Computing lays the foundation for trusted AI
Confidential Computing has redefined how organizations can securely process their sensitive workloads in the cloud. The growth in our hardware ecosystem is fueling a new wave of adoption, enabling customers to use Confidential Computing to support cutting-edge uses such as building privacy-preserving AI and securing multi-party data analytics. We are thrilled to share our latest […]
GCP – Train AI for less: Improve ML Goodput with elastic training and optimized checkpointing
Want to save some money on large AI training? For a typical PyTorch LLM training workload that spans thousands of accelerators for several weeks, a 1% improvement in ML Goodput can translate to more than a million dollars in cost savings1. Therefore, improving ML Goodput is an important goal for model training — both from […]
GCP – Fast, approximate analytics at scale: Apache DataSketches available in BigQuery
In today’s data-driven world, understanding large datasets often requires numerous, complex non-additive1 aggregation operations. But as the size of the data becomes massive2, these types of operations become computationally expensive and time-consuming using traditional methods. That’s where Apache DataSketches come in. We’re excited to announce the availability of Apache DataSketches functions within BigQuery, providing powerful […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Global Database introduces support for up to 10 secondary Region clusters
Amazon Aurora Global Database now supports adding up to 10 secondary Regions to your global cluster, further enhancing scalability and availability for globally distributed applications. With Global Database, a single Aurora cluster can span multiple AWS Regions, providing disaster recovery from Region-wide outages and enabling fast local reads for globally distributed applications. This launch increases […]
AWS – Announcing EKS Dashboard, a multi-cluster view of Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS Regions and your AWS Organizations
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces the general availability of EKS Dashboard, a new feature that provides centralized visibility into Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple AWS Regions and accounts. EKS Dashboard provides comprehensive insights into your Kubernetes clusters, enabling operational planning and governance. You can access the Dashboard in EKS console through AWS Organizations’ management and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Mac instances now support configurable System Integrity Protection (SIP) settings
Starting today, customers can now configure System Integrity Protection (SIP) settings on their EC2 Mac instances, providing greater flexibility and control over their development environments. SIP is a critical macOS security feature that helps prevent unauthorized code execution and system-level modifications. This enhancement enables developers to temporarily disable SIP for development and testing purposes, install […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family announces ML-KEM quantum-resistant key exchange for SFTP
AWS Transfer Family now supports ML- KEM (FIPS-203), a post-quantum algorithm standardized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), for SFTP file transfers. Quantum-resistant public-key exchange helps protect transfers of data files that require long-term confidentiality against “harvest now, decrypt later“ threats. In such scenarios, an adversary may be recording present day traffic […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace Sellers can now receive disbursements for partially paid invoices
AWS Marketplace now supports partial disbursements for AWS Marketplace invoices transacted through the AWS Inc., Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Australia (AU), and Japan (JP) Marketplace Operators (MPOs), allowing sellers to receive funds as buyers make partial payments on AWS Marketplace invoices. AWS Marketplace now automatically processes partial disbursements based on the invoice amount […]