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GCP – Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future
The rise of generative AI has ushered in an era of unprecedented innovation, demanding increasingly complex and more powerful AI models. These advanced models necessitate high-performance infrastructure capable of efficiently scaling AI training, tuning, and inferencing workloads while optimizing for both system performance and cost effectiveness. Google Cloud has been pioneering AI infrastructure for over […]
GCP – Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was Google’s network. But 25 years in, we’ve built out network infrastructure with scale and technical sophistication that’s nothing short of remarkable. It’s all the more impressive because in the beginning, Google’s network infrastructure was relatively simple. But as our user base and the demand for our […]
GCP – Introducing an industry first: application awareness on Cloud Interconnect
Multicloud architectures are becoming commonplace as more business-critical applications are moving to the cloud. Last year, we introduced the Cross-Cloud Network to transform and simplify hybrid and multicloud connectivity, and enable organizations to easily build distributed applications. As organizations modernize their infrastructure, leveraging AI/ML and other managed services, they have adopted Cross-Cloud Network to reduce […]
GCP – C4A VMs now GA: Our first custom Arm-based Axion CPU
At Google Next ‘24, we announced Google Axion Processors, our first custom Arm®-based CPUs designed for the data center. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of C4A virtual machines, the first Axion-based VM series, with up to 10% better price-performance than the latest generation Arm-based instances available from leading cloud providers. C4A VMs […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: 10 ways to make cyber-physical systems more resilient
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2024. Today, Anton Chuvakin, senior security consultant for our Office of the CISO, offers 10 leading indicators to improve cyber-physical systems, guided by our analysis of the White House’s new PCAST report. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms launches Spark SQL support with configurable compute size
Today, AWS announces the launch of AWS Clean Rooms Spark SQL, offering customers the ability to run custom queries using Spark SQL. With this launch, customers can create an AWS Clean Rooms collaboration using the Spark analytics engine, and support workloads of different sizes with configurable instance types at query runtime. With AWS Clean Rooms […]
AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey adds new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time
Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey now supports server-side write request latency and read request latency metrics. With this launch, you can now measure the server-side response time for Valkey commands and troubleshoot latency spikes in your MemoryDB cluster. Monitoring latency is critical to improving end user experience by tracking application trends and adjusting cluster configurations, as […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey adds new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time
ElastiCache for Valkey self-designed (node-based) clusters now support server-side write request latency and read request latency metrics. With this launch, you can now measure the server-side response time for Valkey commands and troubleshoot latency spikes in your ElastiCache for Valkey cluster. Monitoring response time is critical to improving end user experience by tracking application trends […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M7i and R7i database instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7i and R7i database (DB) instances. M7i and R7i are the latest Intel based offering and are available with a new maximum instance size of 48xlarge, which brings 50% more vCPU and memory than the maximum size of M6i and R6i instance […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports dedicated coordinator nodes
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers customers the option to provision a dedicated coordinator node. Dedicated coordinator nodes relieve data nodes from the responsibilities of traffic coordination and hosting of OpenSearch Dashboards, enabling better resource utilization, and improving overall efficiency of the cluster. In addition, coordinator nodes help reduce the number of private IP addresses that […]