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GCP – From legacy complexity to Google-powered innovation
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Syed Mohammad Mujeeb, CIO and Arsalan Mazhar, Head of Infrastructure, for JS Bank a prominent and rapidly growing midsize commercial bank in Pakistan with a strong national presence of over 293 branches. JS Bank, always at the forefront of technology, deployed a Google stack to modernize operations while maintaining […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)
Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in Asia Pacific (New Zealand), enabling you to log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which the queries originated – including […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports forced cancellation of instance refreshes
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now enables customers to force cancel instance refreshes immediately, without waiting for in-progress instance launches or terminations to complete. This enhancement provides greater control over Auto Scaling group (ASG) updates, especially during emergency situations such as when needing to rapidly roll forward to a new application deployment when the current deployment […]
AWS – AWS announces unlimited network burst duration on EC2 I8g and I7i instances
Today, AWS eliminated the networking bandwidth burst duration limitations for Amazon EC2 I7i and I8g instances on sizes larger than 4xlarge. This update doubles the Network Bandwidth available at all times for i7i and i8g instances on sizes larger than 4xlarge. Previously, these instance sizes had a baseline bandwidth and used a network I/O credit […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers launches a new Local Zone in Dallas, Texas
Amazon GameLift Servers now supports a new AWS Local Zone in Dallas, Texas (us-east-1-dfw-2). You can use this Local Zone to deploy GameLift Fleets with EC2 C6gn, C6i, C6in, M6g, M6i, M6in, M8g, and R6i instances. Local Zones place AWS services closer to major player population and IT centers where no AWS region exists. From […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone is now available in 3 additional commercial regions
Amazon DataZone is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Europe (Zurich) Regions. Amazon DataZone is a fully managed data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers in your organization. With Amazon DataZone, data producers populate the business data catalog with structured […]
GCP – Deutsche Bank delivers AI-powered financial research with DB Lumina
At Deutsche Bank Research, the core mission of our analysts is delivering original, independent economic and financial analysis. However, creating research reports and notes relies heavily on a foundation of painstaking manual work. Or at least that was the case until generative AI came along. Historically, analysts would sift through and gather data from financial […]
GCP – AI Innovators: How JAX on TPU is helping Escalante advance AI-driven protein design
As a Python library for accelerator-oriented array computation and program transformation, JAX is widely recognized for its power in training large-scale AI models. But its core design as a system for composable function transformations unlocks its potential in a much broader scientific landscape. Following our recent post on solving high-order partial differential equations, or PDEs, […]
AWS – AWS License Manager now supports shared AWS Managed Active Directory
AWS License Manager announces support for shared AWS Managed Active Directory across multiple AWS accounts, simplifying Microsoft license management on AWS. Customers can now centralize user subscriptions of Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, and Remote Desktop Service instances running in their AWS Organization while maintaining clear visibility across AWS accounts. With this launch, customers are no […]
GCP – Announcing the 2025 DORA Report: State of AI-Assisted Software Development
Today, we are excited to announce the 2025 DORA Report: State of AI-assisted Software Development. Drawing on insights from over 100 hours of qualitative data and survey responses from nearly 5,000 technology professionals from around the world. The report reveals a key insight: AI doesn’t fix a team; it amplifies what’s already there. Strong teams […]