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Amazon RDS for MySQL Zero-ETL Integration with Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS for MySQL's zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning on transactional data. This powerful feature allows customized data replication from a single RDS database and facilitates seamless scalability, ensuring businesses gain insights while controlling costs and maintaining data freshness.
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Cloud Misconfigurations Can Cause Major Data Breaches: Deliveroo at InfoQ Dev Summit Munich
During her presentation at the inaugural edition of Dev Summit Munich, Danielle Sudai, security operations lead at Deliveroo, explored the fundamentals of cloud security posture management, stressing how a single misconfiguration can damage your company's security. She emphasised the importance of bridging the gap between the different layers of the organisation, from governance to technology.
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AWS Key Management Service Now Supports ECDH for Secure Communications
This summer, AWS announced that the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) supports the Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement. The security team at AWS recently showed how the new DeriveSharedSecret API enables the establishment of secure communication channels by using a derived shared secret.
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RAG-Based Ingestion for Generative AI Applications with Logic Apps Standard in Public Preview
Microsoft's new built-in actions for document parsing and chunking in Logic Apps Standard revolutionizes Generative AI ingestion. Streamline workflows with low-code solutions that transform structured and unstructured data into AI-ready formats. Unlock automation across industries, enhancing searchability and knowledge management effortlessly.
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AWS Launches Graviton4-Powered Memory-Optimized EC2 X8g Instances for High-Memory Workloads
AWS has introduced Graviton4-powered EC2 X8g instances, featuring up to 3 TiB of DDR5 memory and 192 vCPUs for memory-intensive workloads. With 3x improved memory and network bandwidth, plus enhanced security, these instances offer unmatched performance and value. Ideal for databases, big data analytics, and more, X8g sets a new standard in cloud computing.
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Microsoft Launches Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET
Microsoft launched Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET, streamlining access to generative AI models in the Azure AI Studio model catalog. This catalog includes models from providers like Azure OpenAI Service, Mistral, Meta, Cohere, NVIDIA, and Hugging Face, organized into three collections: Curated by Azure AI, Azure OpenAI Models, and Open Models from Hugging Face Hub.
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Azure Logic Apps Standard Templates: Pre-Built Workflows for Common Integration Scenarios
Microsoft's Logic Apps (Standard) now features public preview template support, empowering developers with a library of pre-built workflows for diverse integration scenarios. Designed to simplify application management, templates offer detailed workflow insights and customizability. Aiming for GA by year-end, Microsoft encourages community participation to enhance this evolving resource.
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Networking Cost Estimations and Analysis with Open-Source AWS Networking Cost Calculator
AWS has launched the Networking Costs Calculator, an open-source tool enabling users to estimate and visualize AWS networking charges effortlessly. With a serverless backend and a user-friendly ReactJS interface, it simplifies complex cost assessments. Ideal for optimizing networking budgets, this innovative calculator enhances cost transparency in cloud services.
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Microsoft's Customer Managed Planned Failover Type for Azure Storage Available in Public Preview
Microsoft’s new customer-managed planned failover for Azure Storage enhances disaster recovery by enabling geo-redundancy without data loss or reconfiguration. This proactive solution supports business continuity during outages and large-scale disasters, aligning with competitive offerings from AWS and Google Cloud.
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AWS Announces General Availability of EC2 P5e Instances, Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched EC2 P5e instances featuring NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, substantially boosting AI and HPC performance. With enhanced memory bandwidth, these instances reduce latency for real-time applications. Ideal for tasks like LLM training and simulations, they offer improved scalability and cost-efficiency, making them pivotal for modern cloud computing.
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AWS Unveils Parallel Computing Service to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
AWS has unveiled its Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a fully-managed solution designed to streamline high-performance computing (HPC) for scientists and engineers. With capabilities like easy cluster setup via EC2 and support for Slurm, PCS accelerates complex simulations, empowering users to tackle challenging workloads effortlessly across multiple global regions.
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Amazon Introduces Storage Browser for S3
Amazon has recently announced the alpha release of Storage Browser for Amazon S3, providing end users with a simple interface for accessing data stored in S3. The project is available in the AWS Amplify JavaScript and React client libraries.
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Workspaces in Azure API Management GA: Runtime Isolation and Federated Model of Managing APIs
Microsoft has launched Workspaces in Azure API Management, enabling developers to manage multiple API services from a single platform. This feature enhances API oversight, supports centralized and federated management models, and ensures runtime isolation. Ideal for enhanced organization, this premium-tier tool simplifies API development while maintaining robust security and control.
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Cloudflare Introduces Automatic SSL/TLS to Secure and Simplify Origin Server Connectivity
Cloudflare recently introduced new Automatic SSL/TLS settings to simplify the provider's encryption modes for communication with origin servers. This feature offers automatic configuration, ensuring security without risking site downtime.
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Azure Advisor Well-Architected Assessment in Public Preview to Optimize Cloud Infrastructure
Microsoft Azure recently announced the public preview of the Advisor Well-Architected assessment. This self-guided questionnaire aims to provide tailored, actionable recommendations to optimize Azure resources while aligning with the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) principles.