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AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports SOCI indexing for faster container startup times
Today, AWS announces SOCI (Seekable Open Container Initiative) indexing support for Amazon SageMaker Studio, reducing container startup times by 30-50% when using custom images. Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated, browser-based environment for end-to-end machine learning development. SageMaker Studio provides pre-built container images for popular ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn that enable […]
AWS – Amazon Application Recovery Controller region switch now supports three new capabilities
Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch allows you to orchestrate the specific steps to switch your multi-Region applications to operate out of another AWS Region and achieve a bounded recovery time in the event of a Regional impairment to your applications. Region switch saves hours of engineering effort and eliminates the operational overhead previously […]
AWS – AWS Private CA OCSP now available in China and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now supports Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) in China and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Private CA is a fully managed certificate authority service that makes it easy to create and manage private certificates for your organization without the operational overhead of running your own CA infrastructure. OCSP […]
AWS – Amazon RDS enhances observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now offers enhanced observability for your snapshot exports to Amazon S3, providing detailed insights into export progress, failures, and performance for each task. These notifications enable you to monitor your exports with greater granularity and enables more predictability. With snapshot export to S3, you can export data from your RDS […]
GCP – Agent Factory Recap: Supercharging Agents on GKE with Agent Sandbox and Pod Snapshots
In the latest episode of the Agent Factory, Mofi Rahman and I had the pleasure of hosting, Brandon Royal, the PM working on agentic workloads on GKE. We dove deep into the critical questions around the nuances of choosing the right agent runtime, the power of GKE for agents, and the essential security measures needed […]
AWS – AWS IoT now offers event-based logging to help optimize observability costs
AWS IoT now supports event-based logging, a new capability that helps developers reduce Amazon CloudWatch costs while improving log management efficiency. This feature enables targeted logging for individual event with customizable log levels and Amazon CloudWatch log group destinations. With Event-Based Logging, you can set different log levels for different types of IoT events based […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x Driver now supports Apple macOS
Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x driver now supports Apple macOS, expanding platform compatibility for developers and analysts. This enhancement allows Apple macOS users to connect to Amazon Redshift clusters using the latest Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x driver version. You can use an ODBC connection to connect to your Amazon Redshift cluster from many third-party SQL client […]
AWS – Amazon ECR now supports creating repositories on push
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports automatic repository creation on image push. This new capability simplifies container workflows by having ECR automatically create repositories if they don’t exist when an image is pushed, without customers having to pre-create repositories before pushing container images. Now when customers push images, ECR will automatically create repositories according […]
AWS – Announcing Cost Allocation Tags support for Account Tags
AWS announces Cost Allocation tags support for account tags across AWS Cost Management products, enabling customers with multiple member accounts to utilize their existing AWS Organizations account tags directly in cost management tools. Account tags are applied at the account level in AWS Organizations and automatically apply to all metered usage within tagged accounts, eliminating […]
AWS – Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Restart API Calls
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers a restart API for both InfluxDB versions 2 and 3. This new capability enables customers to trigger system restarts on their database instances directly through the AWS Management Console, API, or CLI, to streamline operational management of their time-series database environments. With the restart API, customers can perform resilience […]
