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AWS – Amazon ECS now offers GPU-Optimized AMI for Amazon Linux 2023
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today introduced GPU-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). This new offering enables customers to run GPU-accelerated containerized workloads on Amazon ECS while leveraging improved security features and newer kernel version available on AL2023. The new ECS GPU-optimized AMI is built on the minimal AL2023 base […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports rolling update for inference component endpoints
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports rolling updates for inference component (IC) endpoints. This allows customers to update running IC endpoints without traffic interruption while using minimal extra instances, rather than requiring doubled instances as in the past. SageMaker Inference makes it easy to deploy ML models, including foundation models (FMs). As a capability of SageMaker […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge expands enhanced event source discovery to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EventBridge enhanced event source discovery, which displays the source and detail type of all AWS service events during rule creation in the AWS console, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This makes it easier for customers to discover and utilize the full range of AWS service events when building event-driven architectures. […]

GCP – Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs
Written by: Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Nino Isakovic Executive Summary This blog post presents an in-depth exploration of Microsoft’s Time Travel Debugging (TTD) framework, a powerful record-and-replay debugging framework for Windows user-mode applications. TTD relies heavily on accurate CPU instruction emulation to faithfully replay program executions. However, subtle inaccuracies within this emulation process can lead to significant […]

AWS – Amazon Athena Provisioned Capacity now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Amazon Athena Provisioned Capacity is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Provisioned Capacity allows you to run SQL queries on dedicated serverless resources for a fixed price, with no long-term commitment, and control workload performance characteristics such as query concurrency and cost. Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that makes it possible […]

AWS – AWS HealthOmics workflows now support NVIDIA L4 and L40S GPUs and expanded CPU options
AWS HealthOmics now supports the latest NVIDIA L4 and L40S graphical processing units (GPUs) and larger compute options of up to 192 vCPUs for workflows. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed biological data stores and workflows. This release expands workflow compute capabilities […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift Data API now supports single sign-on (SSO) with AWS IAM Identity Center
Amazon Redshift Data API, which lets you connect to Amazon Redshift through a secure HTTPS endpoint, now supports single sign-on (SSO) through AWS IAM Identity Center. Amazon Redshift Data API removes the need to manage database drivers, connections, network configurations, and data buffering, simplifying how you access your data warehouses and data lakes. AWS IAM […]

AWS – Application Load Balancer announces integration with Amazon VPC IPAM
AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) now allows customers to provide a pool of public IPv4 addresses for IP address assignment to load balancer nodes. Customers can configure a public IP Address Manager (IPAM) pool that can consist of either Bring Your Own IP addresses (BYOIPs) that is customer owned or a contiguous IPv4 address block […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now dynamically update the questions on an evaluation form
Contact Lens now enables you to create dynamic evaluation forms that automatically show or hide questions based on responses to previous questions, tailoring each evaluation to specific customer interaction scenarios. For example, when a manager answers “Yes” to the form question “Did the customer try to make a purchase on the call?”, the form automatically […]
AWS – Amazon SES announces Vade advanced email security Add On for Mail Manager
Today, Amazon SES announces the availability of the Vade Add On for Mail Manager, a sophisticated content filter that enhances email security for both incoming and outgoing messages. This new Add On, developed in collaboration with HornetSecurity, combines heuristics, behavioral analysis, and machine learning to provide robust protection against evolving communication threats such as spam, […]