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GCP – Chaos engineering on Google Cloud: Principles, practices, and getting started
As engineers, we all dream of perfectly resilient systems — ones that scale perfectly, provide a great user experience, and never ever go down. What if we told you the key to building these kinds of resilient systems isn’t avoiding failures, but deliberately causing them? Welcome to the world of chaos engineering, where you stress […]
GCP – The future of media sanitization at Google
At Google, protecting your data is our most important responsibility, and we are committed to keeping your data safe. To further this commitment, we are proud to announce that starting in November 2025, we will start transitioning our approach to media sanitization to fully rely on a robust and layered encryption strategy. This marks a […]
AWS – Amazon Quick Sight expands font customization for visuals
Amazon Quick Sight now supports font customization for data labels and axes. Authors can now customize fonts for data labels and axes in supported charts, in addition to the previously supported font customization for visual titles, subtitles, and legend, as well as tables and pivot tables headers. Authors can set the font size (in pixels), […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB of memory (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. U7i-12tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-12tb instances offer 12TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers to scale transaction […]
AWS – AWS now supports immediate resource discovery within a Region
AWS now provides immediate access to resource search capabilities in all accounts through AWS Resource Explorer. With this launch, you no longer need to activate Resource Explorer to discover your resources in a Region. To start searching, you need, at minimum, permissions in the AWS Resource Explorer Read Only Access or AWS Read Only Access […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI Projects now supports custom template S3 provisioning
Amazon SageMaker AI Projects now supports provisioning custom machine learning (ML) project templates from Amazon S3. Administrators can now manage ML templates in SageMaker AI studio so data scientists can create standardized ML projects to meet their organizational needs. Data scientists can use Amazon SageMaker AI Projects to create standardized ML projects that meet organizational […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is an agentic platform to build, deploy and operate highly capable agents securely at scale using any framework, model, or protocol. AgentCore lets you build agents faster, enable agents to take actions across tools and data, run agents securely with low-latency and extended runtimes, and monitor agents in production – all without […]
AWS – Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache
Vector search for Amazon ElastiCache is now generally available. Customers can now use ElastiCache to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from popular providers like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI with latency as low as microseconds and up to 99% recall. Key use cases include semantic caching for large language models (LLMs) […]
AWS – Generative AI observability now generally available for Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch announces the general availability of generative AI observability, helping you monitor all components of AI applications and workloads, including agents deployed and operated with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This release expands beyond runtime monitoring to include complete observability across AgentCore’s Built-in Tools, Gateways, Memory, and Identity capabilities. DevOps teams and developers can now get […]
AWS – AWS Service Availability Updates
After careful consideration, we’re announcing availability changes for a select group of AWS services and features. These changes fall into three lifecycle categories: Services and Capabilities moving to Maintenance Services moving to maintenance will no longer be accessible to new customers starting Nov 7, 2025. Current customers can continue using the service or feature while […]