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AWS – Now generally available: Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Applications announces additional health and performance metrics
Today, Amazon WorkSpaces Applications announced a new set of Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring the health and performance of fleets, sessions, instances, and users. Administrators and support operations personnel can conveniently enable monitoring across fleets from the Amazon CloudWatch console. These metrics simplify troubleshooting and dynamically update to reflect the latest state of important performance […]
AWS – AWS Databases are now available on the Vercel Marketplace
Today, AWS Databases including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB are generally available on the Vercel Marketplace, enabling you to create and connect to an AWS database directly from Vercel in seconds. To get started, you can create a new AWS Account from Vercel that includes access to the three databases and […]
GCP – Automate AI and HPC clusters with Cluster Director, now generally available
The complexity of the infrastructure behind AI training and high performance computing (HPC) workloads can really slow teams down. At Google Cloud, where we work with some of the world’s largest AI research teams, we see it everywhere we go: researchers hampered by complex configuration files, platform teams struggling to manage GPUs with home-grown scripts, […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database preview environment
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL version 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate PostgreSQL 18.1 on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 18.1 was released by the PostgreSQL community on September 9, 2025. PostgreSQL 18.1 includes “skip scan” support for multicolumn B-tree indexes and improves WHERE clause handling for OR […]
GCP – Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025
For most organizations, the question is no longer if they will use AI, but how to scale it from a promising prototype into a production-grade service that drives business outcomes. In this age of inference, competitive advantage is defined by your ability to serve useful information to users around the world at the lowest possible […]
AWS – AWS announces enhanced custom line item controls for AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, AWS Billing Conductor customers gain greater flexibility when using custom line items. Customers can now create service-specific custom line items scoped at either one AWS service or to a set of selected AWS service and can choose how these line items are presented in the pro forma billing artifacts, such as Bills Page, […]
GCP – Introducing Gemini 3 Flash: Intelligence and speed for enterprises
Today, we’re expanding the Gemini 3 model family with Gemini 3 Flash, which offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. Gemini 3 Flash builds on the model series that developers and enterprises already love, optimized for high-frequency workflows that demand speed, without sacrificing quality. It allows enterprises to process near […]
AWS – Amazon ECR Public now supports PrivateLink for US East (N. Virginia) SDK Endpoint
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Public now supports PrivateLink for the US East (N. Virginia) SDK endpoint, providing enhanced network security and private connectivity for customers. This update allows customers to access this ECR Public SDK endpoint through a private network connection, reducing exposure to the public internet. With this enhancement, customers can now establish […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in Europe (Zurich)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, […]