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GCP – How Rent the Runway supercharges developer speed and insights with Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: Rent the Runway is redefining how consumers engage with fashion, offering on-demand access to designer clothing through a unique blend of e-commerce and reverse logistics. As customer expectations around speed, personalization, and reliability continue to rise, Rent the Runway turned to Google Cloud’s fully managed database services to modernize its data infrastructure. By […]
GCP – OpenTelemetry Protocol comes to Google Cloud Observability
OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) is a data exchange protocol designed to transport telemetry from a source to a destination in a vendor-agnostic fashion. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Cloud Trace, part of Google Cloud Observability, now supports users sending trace data using OTLP via telemetry.googleapis.com. Fig 1: Both in-process and collector based configurations can use […]
AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available (GA). M4 Mac instances offer up to 20% better application build performance compared to M2 Mac instances, while M4 Pro Mac instances deliver up to 15% better application build performance compared to M2 Pro Mac instances. These […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support P6-B200 instance type
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances on SageMaker notebooks. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances are powered by 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids). These instances deliver up to 2x better performance compared to P5en instances for AI […]
AWS – New EFA metrics for improved observability of AWS networking
Today, AWS has introduced five new Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) metrics to enhance network observability for AI/ML and High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. These new metrics help diagnose performance issues by tracking retransmitted packets and bytes, retransmit timeout events, impaired remote connection events, and unresponsive remote receiver events. With these new metrics, you can monitor […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy announces support for end-to-end IAM authentication
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports end-to-end IAM authentication for connections to Amazon Aurora and RDS database instances. This feature allows you to connect from your applications to your databases through RDS Proxy using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication. End-to-end IAM authentication simplifies credential management, reduces credential rotation overhead, and enables […]
AWS – Malware Protection for S3 Expands File Size and Archive Scanning Limits
Today, AWS announces enhanced scanning capabilities for GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3. This launch increases scanning capabilities by raising the maximum file size limit from 5GB to 100 GB. Additionally, the archive processing capacity has been expanded to handle up to 10,000 files per archive, up from the previous limit of 1,000 files. GuardDuty […]
AWS – Deadline Cloud is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (London)
We are excited to announce that AWS Deadline Cloud is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (London). Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects for films, television, broadcasting, web content, and design. Customers can now use Deadline Cloud to scale their […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio supports remote connection from VS Code
Today, AWS announces remote connection from Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. This new capability allows developers to leverage their VS Code setup while accessing the scalable compute resources of Amazon SageMaker. By connecting VS Code to SageMaker Unified Studio, you can maintain your existing development workflows and configurations within a […]
GCP – Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification
Security leaders are clear about their priorities: After AI, cloud security is the top training topic for decision-makers. As threats against cloud workloads become more sophisticated, organizations are looking for highly-skilled professionals to help defend against these attacks. To help organizations meet their need for experts who can manage a modern security team’s advanced tools, […]