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ClickHouse Reports 25% Performance Gain After Migrating Cloud Workloads to AWS ARM Instances
ClickHouse recently shared its migration strategy to AWS Graviton over the past six months, reporting a 25% performance improvement for end users. The engineering team outlines the steps taken to establish a performance baseline and transition the managed ClickHouse Cloud service to the new ARM deployment while handling large-scale production workloads.
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Stack Refactoring for Enhanced Infrastructure Management in AWS CloudFormation Service
AWS CloudFormation's new stack refactoring feature transforms resource management, enabling seamless movement of resources between stacks. This enhances modularity and alignment with business needs, reduces misconfiguration risks, and boosts efficiency. Developers can optimize costs and improve clarity, making cloud architecture more manageable and adaptable.
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OpenAI Features New o3-mini Model on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service
OpenAI has launched the advanced o3-mini model via Microsoft Azure, enhancing AI applications with improved cost efficiency, faster performance, and adjustable reasoning capabilities. Designed for complex tasks, it supports structured outputs and backward compatibility. With widespread access, the o3-mini empowers developers to drive innovation across various industries.
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How Locking, Saturation and CDN Network Issues Brought down Canva
The Canva engineering team recently published their post-mortem on the outage they experienced last November, detailing the API Gateway failure and the lessons learned during the incident.
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Amazon EventBridge Event Bus Cross-Account Event Delivery
AWS enhances Amazon EventBridge, enabling direct event delivery across accounts. This feature simplifies architecture, boosts security, and reduces latency, allowing seamless routing of events to AWS services like SQS and Lambda. Leverage fine-grained IAM control for streamlined event sourcing. Discover more about this transformative update on AWS documentation and GitHub.
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Cloudflare Open Sources Documentation and Adopts Astro for Better Scalability
Cloudflare recently published an article detailing their upgrade of developer documentation by migrating from Hugo to the Astro ecosystem. All Cloudflare documentation is open source on GitHub, with opportunities for community contributions.
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AWS Glue 5.0 Introduces Spark 3.5.2 and Enhanced ETL Performance
At the latest re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon announced the general availability of AWS Glue 5.0, designed to accelerate ETL jobs powered by Apache Spark. The latest release of the serverless data integration service introduces upgraded runtimes, including Spark 3.5.2, Python 3.11, and Java 17, along with enhancements in performance and security.
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Build Resilient Systems with Insights on AI, Multi-Cloud, Leadership & Security at QCon London 2025
From AI and ML to cloud, leadership, and modern data strategies, QCon London 2025, April 7-10, features 15 tracks of insights from 125+ senior practitioners. Discover practical solutions to scaling architectures, enhancing productivity, securing supply chains, and integrating cutting-edge technologies - all through real-world examples and actionable takeaways.
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AWS Announces Physical Data Transfer Terminal for High-Speed Uploads
AWS has recently introduced AWS Data Transfer Terminal, a new option for high-speed data uploads. Currently available only in the US, Data Transfer Terminals provide a physical location where customers can bring their storage devices for fast data transfer to and from the AWS cloud.
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Amazon Launches High Memory U7inh EC2 Instance for Enhanced SAP HANA Workloads
AWS has unveiled the Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance, a game-changer for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, offering 32 TB of memory and 1,920 vCPUs. Designed with HPE, it doubles the performance of previous models, ensuring seamless integration in AWS. Maximize your SAP workloads in the cloud with enhanced speed and scalability.
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.NET Application Porting with Amazon Q Developer AI-Powered Transformation Capabilities
AWS has launched Amazon Q Developer's generative AI capabilities, enabling .NET Framework applications to transition to cross-platform .NET up to four times faster, reducing licensing costs by 40%. With user-friendly automation, developers can modernize code and streamline compliance while leveraging the latest innovations.
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AWS Introduces S3 Tables Bucket: Is S3 Becoming a Data Lakehouse?
AWS has recently announced S3 Tables Bucket, managed Apache Iceberg tables optimized for analytics workloads. According to the cloud provider, the new option delivers up to 3x faster query performance and up to 10x higher transaction rates for Apache Iceberg tables compared to standard S3 storage.
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Microsoft Introduces Serverless GPUs on Azure Container Apps in Public Preview
Discover the power of Azure Container Apps with serverless GPUs, now in public preview! Leverage NVIDIA A100 and T4 GPUs for real-time AI inferencing and machine learning, all without infrastructure management. Enjoy scale-to-zero capabilities and per-second billing, optimizing both performance and costs. Unlock innovation with seamless Azure integration!
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Google Cloud Launches Sixth Generation Trillium TPUs: More Performance, Scalability and Efficiency
Google Cloud's Trillium, its sixth-generation TPU, is now available. It enhances AI workloads with unmatched performance and 67% better energy efficiency. Integral to the AI Hypercomputer, Trillium boasts training speeds over 4x faster and triples inference throughput. This leap positions Google as a contender against Nvidia in the AI data center market.
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Azure Boost DPU: Microsoft's New Silicon Solution for Enhanced Cloud Performance
At Ignite 2024, Microsoft unveiled the Azure Boost DPU, its first in-house solution for low-power, data-centric workloads. This innovative chip optimizes cloud performance and security, offering triple the efficiency of CPUs. With a robust hardware-software design, Microsoft’s advancements position it to redefine AI and cloud infrastructure.