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AWS – Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS supports Kubernetes labels
Starting today, Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS now allows you to import up to 50 Kubernetes custom labels per pod as cost allocation tags. You can attribute costs of your Amazon EKS cluster at the pod level using custom attributes, such as cost center, application, business unit, and environment in AWS Cost and […]
GCP – PQC in plaintext: How we’re helping customers prepare for a quantum-safe future
Google has been working on making computing quantum safe for almost a decade. We’ve been rolling out post-quantum cryptography in our infrastructure for internal and customer services, and now we’re at the level where you can get hands-on — and we’re here to help. We’ve developed a threat model, invested in cryptographic libraries, BoringSSL, key […]
GCP – How Global Payments built a resilient architecture for scale with Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: When payments are your product, downtime isn’t an option. To meet the critical demands of global availability, Global Payments partnered with the Google Cloud product team to architect a resilient, multi-region solution leveraging Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus. This collaboration ensures enhanced uptime and streamlined disaster recovery. This strategic adoption of Google Cloud’s advanced […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions announces a new metrics dashboard
AWS Step Functions announces improved observability with a new metrics dashboard, giving you visibility into your workflow operations at both the account and state machine levels. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and data processing workloads. With […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms launches advanced configurations to optimize SQL performance
Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces support for advanced configurations to improve the performance of Spark SQL queries. This launch enables you to customize Spark properties and compute sizes for SQL queries at runtime, offering increased flexibility to meet your performance, scale, and cost requirements. With AWS Clean Rooms, you can configure Spark properties—such as shuffle […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers adds telemetry metrics to all server SDKs and game engine plugins
Today, Amazon GameLift Servers launched the addition of built-in telemetry metrics across all server SDKs and game engine plugins. Built on OpenTelemetry, an open source framework, Amazon GameLift Servers telemetry metrics enable game developers to generate, collect, and export critical client-side metrics for game-specific insights. With this release, Amazon GameLift Servers can now be configured […]
AWS – Introducing the Capacity Reservation Topology API for AI, ML, and HPC instance types
AWS announces the general availability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Reservation Topology API. It joins the Instance Topology API in enabling customers to efficiently manage capacity, schedule jobs, and rank nodes for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing distributed workloads. The Capacity Reservation Topology API gives customers a unique per-account hierarchical view of […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Amazon Corretto 25
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Java applications using Amazon Corretto 25 on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest Java 25 features while benefiting from AL2023’s enhanced security and performance capabilities. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to […]
GCP – Master multi-tasking with the Jules extension for Gemini CLI
Tasks like fixing minor bugs, patching vulnerabilities, or updating dependencies can interrupt your workflow and drain productivity, whether you’re deep in a coding session or just starting your day. With the new Jules extension for Gemini CLI we announced yesterday, you can delegate tasks to Jules using the /jules command right from Gemini CLI. Jules […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds anomaly detection
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service now supports anomaly detection. Anomaly detection applies machine-learning algorithms to continuously analyze time series and surfaces anomalies with minimal user intervention. You can use anomaly detection to isolate and troubleshoot unexpected changes in your metric behavior. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Anomaly Detection currently […]