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GCP – Where’s the beef? For São Paulo’s agricultural ministry, it’s on Cloud SQL for SQL Server
When most people think of São Paulo, business and culture usually come to mind, not beef and chicken. But the state of São Paulo isn’t only home to the largest city in the hemisphere — it’s also the second largest producer of meat in a country that’s the second largest agricultural exporter in the world. […]
GCP – Accelerate your cloud journey using a well-architected, principles-based framework
In today’s dynamic digital landscape, building and operating secure, reliable, cost-efficient and high-performing cloud solutions is no easy feat. Enterprises grapple with the complexities of cloud adoption, and often struggle to bridge the gap between business needs, technical implementation, and operational readiness. This is where the Google Cloud Architecture Framework comes in. The framework provides […]
GCP – With MultiKueue, grab GPUs for your GKE cluster, wherever they may be
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are experiencing explosive growth, powering applications from machine translation to artistic creation. These technologies rely on intensive computations that require specialized hardware resources, like GPUs. But access to GPUs can be challenging, both in terms of availability and cost. For Google Cloud users, the introduction of Dynamic […]
GCP – ChromeOS Flex: A Valentine’s Gift for Your PC
Is your laptop starting to collect a bit of dust, slowing down, or just not acting the same as it used to? This Valentine’s day, you have an opportunity to give it the gift of a fresh start with ChromeOS Flex. Think of ChromeOS Flex as your cupid, ready to rekindle the spark with your […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in several new regions
Today, Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in several new regions as well as new instance types in existing locations. You can use EC2 Capacity Blocks to reserve highly sought-after GPU instances in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters for a future date for the amount […]
GCP – Announcing Wasm support in Go 1.24
Earlier this week, we released Go 1.24, the latest version of Google’s open-source programming language for productively building scalable, production-ready backend and cloud-based systems. There’s a lot to love about Go 1.24, including support for post-quantum cryptography, a weak pointer implementation, and substantial performance improvements to the Go runtime. Go 1.24 also significantly expands its […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Adobe After Effects in Service-Managed Fleets
AWS Deadline Cloud now includes support for Adobe After Effects in its Service-Managed Fleets. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, created in industry-standard graphics tools such as Adobe After Effects, for films, television and broadcasting, web content, and design. With this […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline adds CloudWatch Metrics support
AWS CodePipeline now provides Amazon CloudWatch metrics integration for V2 pipelines, enabling you to monitor both pipeline-level and account-level metrics directly in your AWS account. The integration introduces a pipeline duration metric that tracks the total execution time of your pipeline completions, and pipeline failure metric that monitors the frequency of pipeline execution failures. You […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now enables you to update services from short to long ARNs
You can now update your existing Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services that use a short Amazon Resource Name (ARN) to use a long ARN without needing to re-create the service. This enables you to tag your long-running Amazon ECS services, letting you better allocate cost, improve visibility, and define fine-grained resource-level permissions for […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C6in instances in Chicago and New York City Local Zones
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are now available in the Chicago and New York City Local Zones. C6in instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz. They are x86-based Amazon EC2 compute-optimized instances offering up to 200 Gbps of network […]