DEVOPS★★★★
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams introduces streaming tables, a new fully serverless capability that continuously delivers data from Kinesis streams to Amazon S3 Tables in Apache Iceberg format. Streaming tables eliminate the need to build and operate self-managed Iceberg delivery pipelines, reducing data delivery costs by up to 50%. Intelligent inline compaction eliminates the small file problem and keeps query performance predictable, reducing downstream query costs by up to 30%. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale. Customers increasingly …
AWS★★★★
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. The C8gn instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances. Take advantage of the enhanced networking capabilities of C8gn to scale performance and throughput, while optimizing the cost of running network-intensive workloads s…
KUBERNETES★★★★
Pod Certificate / Cluster Trust Bundles Blog PostKubernetes brings a wealth of features that make it easy to run your production workloads securely and reliably. While aspects like scheduling, health checks and resource limits are probably at the front of your mind, one other important feature of Kubernetes is production identity — how your workload can authenticate to other systems in order to do its job. Up until now, the primary production identity mechanism built into Kubernetes has been service account JWTs (JSON Web Tokens). These are cryptographically-signed tokens, issued by the control plane of your cluster, that let anyone in the w…
AWS★★★★
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) P6-B300 instances are available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. P6-B300 instances provide 8xNVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB high bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps dedicated ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. P6-B300 instances deliver 2x networking bandwidth, 1.5x GPU memory size, and 1.5x GPU TFLOPS (at FP4, without sparsity) compared to P6-B200 instances, making them well suited to train and deploy large trillion-parameter foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) with sophisticated techniques. Th…
KUBERNETES★★★★
Amazon EMR on EKS lets you run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark and Flink on AWS EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service) clusters. You submit jobs to a virtual cluster, which maps to a namespace on an EKS cluster, and EMR on EKS handles packaging, scheduling, and running your applications. Today, we are excited to announce job run admission control on EMR EKS with support for job run concurrency and backpressure signals from StartJobRun API. With this launch, you can now set concurrent job limits on a virtual cluster, giving you fine-grained control over how many job runs execute at once and how many can wait in queue. This is a …
LINUX★★★★
AWS announces support for collecting systemd journal (journald) logs with the Amazon CloudWatch agent. You can now configure the CloudWatch agent to read log entries directly from the systemd journal on Linux instances and send them to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, without first writing those logs to files on disk. Many modern Linux distributions, including Amazon Linux 2023, use systemd journal as the primary logging system and no longer write traditional text log files such as /var/log/messages by default. Previously, collecting these logs with the CloudWatch agent required additional configuration to export the journal to files on disk. With th…
AWS★★★★
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (compatible with MySQL 8.0) supports MySQL 8.0.45, which includes community MySQL fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. For detailed information on this release, refer to Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.45 release notes. You can upgrade your databases during scheduled maintenance windows using automatic minor version upgrades. To simplify operations at scale, enable automatic minor version upgrades and use the AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy to orchestrate upgrades across your clusters in phases. You can perform minor version upgrades in-place or via snapshot restore. This rele…
AWS★★★★
NVIDIA's Cosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These three models form the Cosmos 3 family of open, frontier omnimodal world models for physical AI, enabling customers to build robots, autonomous vehicles, and vision AI that perceive, reason, plan, and act in the physical world. These models address different physical AI challenges with specialized capabilities: Cosmos3-Edge is engineered for on-device robot control and real-time visual reasoning on edge hardware. This 4B-parameter omni-model (with a 2B Nem…
KUBERNETES★★★★
Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the metrics.k8s.io API to stable (v1). This API provides CPU and memory usage for nodes and Pods, and is the API behind commands such as kubectl top and resource-metrics-based autoscaling. For cluster operators and application developers, this graduation means that the API now has the stability guarantees associated with a Kubernetes stable API. The v1 API has the same resource types and fields as v1beta1; this is an API-version graduation, not a change to the metrics that are collected or returned. A long-lived API reaches stableThe resource Metrics API was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.6 and became beta in …
KUBERNETES★★★★
Editors: Arsh Sharma, Christopher Tineo, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Troy Connor Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.37 introduces new Stable, Beta, and Alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development cycle and the vibrant support from our community. This release consists of 67 enhancements. Of those enhancements, 16 have graduated to Stable, 23 have graduated to Beta, 27 are entering Alpha, and 1 is a deprecation/removal. Release theme and logo The theme for Kubernetes v1.37 is Garhwal (गढ़वाल, pronounced gaṛhvāl), a Himalayan region of Uttara…
AWS★★★★
On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding EC2 into new form factors and deployment models that our customers in 2006 could not have imagined.
DOCKER★★★★
Run AI agents in GitHub Actions with Docker Sandboxes. See how isolated agents can run Testcontainers tests, fix code, and open draft pull requests.