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AWS Launches C8i and C8i-flex EC2 Instances Powered by Custom Intel Xeon 6
AWS has launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. Designed for compute-intensive tasks, these instances offer up to 384 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory, delivering up to 60% faster performance. The C8i-flex variant boosts cost efficiency, enhancing resource management for dynamic workloads.
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How Meta Is Using AI to Standardize and Cut Carbon Emissions
Meta has developed an AI-based approach to improve the quality of Scope 3 emissions estimates across its IT hardware supply chain. The method combines machine learning and generative models to classify hardware components and infer missing product carbon footprint (PCF) data.
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Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Adds Support for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise
InfluxData has launched InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise on Amazon Timestream, offering a high-speed, open-source time-series database for real-time applications. With enhanced security, scalability, and performance, developers can seamlessly integrate with AWS services. InfluxDB 3 redefines data management for AI-driven environments, enabling rapid analytics and decision-making.
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AWS Culls Portfolio: over 20 Services Shift to Maintenance or Sunset
AWS is streamlining its service portfolio with a significant lifecycle update for over 20 services, categorizing them as Maintenance, Sunset, or End of Support. This consolidation aims to refocus on high-value offerings and eliminate low-adoption solutions. Customers must urgently plan migrations as AWS transitions to a more mature, efficient product landscape, supported by migration guides.
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Inside Duolingo’s FinOps Journey: Turning Cloud Spend into Engineering Insight
Duolingo's FinOps journey integrates financial awareness into engineering, empowering developers to link costs with performance. By leveraging real-time data, teams prioritize innovations for maximum impact. This collaborative culture shift transformed cost efficiency into a hallmark of engineering quality, paving the way for smarter, more sustainable cloud spending.
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New Infrastructure-as-Code Tool "formae" Takes Aim at Terraform
Platform Engineering Labs has released formae, an open-source infrastructure-as-code platform. It is trying to address what they describe as fundamental limitations in existing infrastructure-as-code tools. In a press release, the New York-based company announced the launch on 22 October 2025, positioning formae as the first major innovation in infrastructure-as-code in nearly a decade.
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HashiCorp Previews “Agentic Infrastructure” Future with Project Infragraph
At its annual conference, HashiConf 2025, the now-IBM-owned HashiCorp, revealed a new strategic initiative: Project Infragraph, a real-time infrastructure graph designed to underpin an era of agent-driven automation for hybrid clouds.
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Groupe SNCF Modernizes Infrastructure with Talos OS and Kubernetes
Groupe SNCF, a major railway operator, has successfully migrated from traditional VM-based Kubernetes deployments to a cloud-native platform built on Talos OS and OpenStack, addressing significant operational challenges while navigating complex organizational change. After his talk at TalosCon 2025, InfoQ interviewed Thomas Comtet, senior staff engineer, about this migration.
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Google Cloud KMS Launches Post-Quantum KEM Support to Combat "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" Threat
Google Cloud's Key Management Service now supports post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs), addressing future threats from quantum computing. This update empowers organizations to prepare against "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" attacks while ensuring long-term data confidentiality.
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AWS Launches EC2 Capacity Manager for Centralized, Cross-Account Capacity Optimization
Introducing Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager: AWS's new centralized solution for streamlined monitoring and management of EC2 capacity across all accounts and regions. This innovative tool consolidates data into a unified dashboard, enhancing efficiency while reducing operational complexity.
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AWS Launches EBS Volume Clones for Instant, Crash-Consistent Data Copies
AWS has unveiled Volume Clones for Amazon EBS, enabling instant, point-in-time copies of storage volumes with a simple API call. This feature provides rapid access with single-digit millisecond latency, ideal for quick test setups and development. While it integrates seamlessly with the EBS CSI driver, understand its limitations, especially around encryption and management.
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Google Cloud Outlines Key Strategies for Securing Remote MCP Servers
Google Cloud published a guide that lays out strategies for securing remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server deployments, particularly in contexts where AI systems depend on external tools, databases, and APIs.
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AWS ALBs Now Support Native URL and Host Header Rewriting
AWS's Application Load Balancers (ALB) now offer native URL and Host Header Rewriting, eliminating the need for third-party proxies and custom logic. This feature enhances request routing, reduces maintenance, and lowers latency. Easily configurable via the AWS Management Console or API, it streamlines traffic management for backend services, aligning AWS with other cloud leaders.
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NPM Ecosystem Suffers Two AI-Enabled Credential Stealing Supply Chain Attacks
The Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem has suffered from two major supply chain attacks in recent months, affecting hundreds of packages and exposing developers to credential theft and data exfiltration. The attack vector of these incidents shows an AI-enabled evolution of how open-source software dependencies can be compromised.
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Mirantis' Kubernetes Management Platform k0rdent Reaches v1.2.0
Mirantis has announced the release of version 1.2.0 of its open-source distributed container management platform k0rdent. They pitch k0rdent as a "super control plane" for helping platform engineers who manage Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple environments.