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GCP – Taking Flight: How the RAF Air Cadets bridged the digital divide with ChromeOS Flex
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Dr. Jill Matterface, Education and Training Specialist for the Royal Air Force. Early on in her career with the Royal Air Force Air Cadets, Dr. Jill Matterface, Education and Training Specialist for the RAF, discovered that 27% of cadets come from disadvantaged areas in the UK. These cadets, and […]
AWS – SES Outbound now delivers to Mail Manager Archives
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that Outbound customers can now specify a Mail Manager archive resource as an additional destination for outbound mail workloads. This enables retention of messages post-DKIM-signature, ensuring that the archive is usable for validating every individual sent message. The Mail Manager archive search interface allows easy discovery of indexed messages […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall introduces automated domain lists and insights
AWS Network Firewall now offers automated domain lists and insights, a feature that enhances visibility into network traffic and simplifies firewall rule configuration. This new capability analyzes HTTP and HTTPS traffic logs from the last 30 days and provides insights into frequently accessed domains, enabling quick rule creation based on observed network traffic patterns. Many […]
AWS – Amazon ECS increases the CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports CPU limits of up to 192 vCPU for ECS tasks deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, an increase from the previous 10 vCPU limit. This enhancement allows customers to more effectively manage resource allocation on larger Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon ECS customers can define […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 8.0.41 and 8.4.4
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.41 and 8.4.4. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more […]
AWS – Announcing AWS DMS Serverless comprehensive premigration assessments
AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMSS) now supports premigration assessments for replications . A premigration assessment evaluates the source and target databases of a database migration task to help identify problems that might prevent a migration from running as expected. By identifying and fixing these issues before a migration starts, you can avoid delays […]
GCP – Discover Google Cloud careers and credentials in our new Career Dreamer
“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” When Maya Angelou said that, she made — intentionally or not — a wise observation about careers in technology. If you’ve never worked in the cloud, it can be hard to know where to start. Even if you’re a seasoned Cloud Architect, […]
GCP – Rethinking 5G: The cloud imperative
The telecommunications industry is at a critical juncture. The demands of 5G, the explosion of connected devices, and the ever-increasing complexity of network architectures require a fundamental shift in how networks are managed and operated. The future is autonomous — autonomous networks driving efficiency and innovation The future isn’t just about scale and performance; it’s […]
GCP – How to reduce costs with Managed Service for Apache Kafka: CUDs, compression and more
Running and managing Apache Kafka clusters can be costly as your business and streaming workloads grow. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Managed Service for Apache Kafka committed use discounts (CUDs), which let you save up to 40% on compute costs. Read more to learn how to save money with CUDs and other cost […]
GCP – Introducing A4X VMs powered by NVIDIA GB200 — now in preview
The next frontier of AI is reasoning models that think critically and learn during inference to solve complex problems. To train and serve this new class of models, you need infrastructure with the performance and efficiency to not only handle massive datasets and context windows, but also to deliver rapid, reliable responses. To continue to […]