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Amazon EC2 F2 FPGA Instances Expand to Four Regions

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 F2 instances — the second-generation FPGA-powered instances featuring an FPGA with 16 GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) — are available in four additional regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo and Seoul), and Canada (Central). F2 delivers substantial hardware upgrades over F1, including up to 192 vCPUs, 2 TB system memory, 7.6 TiB SSD, and 100 Gbps networking. These instances target genomics, multimedia processing, big data, and network acceleration workloads and can be purchased On-Demand or via Savings Plans.

AWS PCS Adds Slurm CLI Filter Plugin Support for HPC

🛠️ AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm CLI Filter plugins, letting administrators extend and modify how Slurm evaluates and schedules HPC jobs without changing Slurm source code. With CLI Filter plugins, you can enforce custom submission policies — validate required flags, reject submissions missing attributes, or adjust job parameters at submission. This capability is available in all Regions where PCS is offered.

How BigQuery Brought Vector Search to Analytics at Scale

🔍 In early 2024 Google introduced native vector search in BigQuery, embedding semantic search directly into the data warehouse to remove the need for separate vector databases. Users can create indexes with a simple CREATE VECTOR INDEX statement and run semantic queries via the VECTOR_SEARCH function or through Python integrations like LangChain. BigQuery provides serverless scaling, asynchronous index refreshes, model rebuilds with no downtime, partitioned indexes, and ScaNN-based TreeAH for improved price/performance, while retaining row- and column-level security and a pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Fortinet Wins Red Dot Award for FortiGate Rugged Series

🏆Fortinet’s FortiGate Rugged series (FGR-50G-5G and FGR-70G-5G) earned the Red Dot Product Design Award for its fanless industrial design, integrated 5G, and purpose-built ASIC performance. Engineered for OT and critical infrastructure, the appliances combine thermal resilience, shock and moisture protection, and low-latency security functions including next-generation firewalling, SD-WAN, VPN, and AI-driven threat detection. The recognition underscores Fortinet’s focus on precision engineering and durable, field-ready security.

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Included in Amazon Linux 2023

🔧 Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now included in Amazon Linux 2023, making it straightforward to install, update, and mount S3 buckets with a single command. Previously, users downloaded the Mountpoint package from GitHub, resolved dependencies, and managed updates manually; inclusion in AL2023 streamlines that workflow. The open source project is backed by AWS and offers 24/7 AWS cloud support for Business and Enterprise Support customers—consult the repository and documentation to get started.

Amazon CloudWatch Adds Threshold-Based Composite Alarms

🔔 Amazon CloudWatch now lets teams create threshold-based composite alarms that trigger only when a specified subset of monitored resources meet a condition. Using the new AT_LEAST function, you can define fixed counts or percentages — for example, at least two of four volumes low on capacity or 50% of hosts with high CPU — to reduce alert noise. The capability is available in all commercial AWS regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions; composite alarms pricing applies.

Amazon EC2 U7i-6tb High Memory Instances in Europe

⚙️ Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-6tb instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm and Ireland). The u7i-6tb provides 6TB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs, with up to 100 Gbps for EBS and network bandwidth and support for ENA Express. Powered by custom 4th-gen Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids), these instances target mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

AWS expands Graviton4 EC2 C8gd, M8gd, R8gd regions

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gd instances are now available in Europe (London) and Canada (Central), while M8gd and R8gd sizes have expanded to South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (London), respectively. Powered by AWS Graviton4, these instances deliver up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3 and offer up to 11.4 TB NVMe local storage and EFA on select sizes. Customers can also adjust network and EBS bandwidth by 25% via instance bandwidth weighting.

Amazon EC2 C6id and R6id Instances Expand Regions Now

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 C6id instances available in Europe (Milan) and R6id instances available in Africa (Cape Town). Powered by 3rd-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors (3.5 GHz all-core turbo) and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe SSD, these Nitro-based instances deliver high compute, memory access, and low-latency storage. Use cases include media processing, distributed in-memory caches, in-memory databases, data logging, and real-time analytics. Customers can purchase capacity via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot, and provision using the AWS CLI and SDKs.

Amazon Keyspaces Adds Logged Batches for Atomic Writes

🔒 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches, enabling multiple INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations to be executed as a single atomic transaction. This ensures that all writes in a batch succeed or none are applied, improving consistency across rows and tables for use cases such as finance, inventory, and multi-entity profile updates. The feature preserves Cassandra's atomicity guarantees, integrates with CQL, scales serverlessly with your workload, and is available today in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers pay only for the standard write operations processed within each batch.

Amazon EC2 M8a Instances Now in N. Virginia & Tokyo

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Turin) with up to 4.5 GHz, M8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance versus M7a, and 45% more memory bandwidth. They show workload gains up to 60% for GroovyJVM and 39% for Cassandra, are SAP-certified, come in 12 sizes including two bare-metal options, and run on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards. Customers can purchase M8a via Savings Plans, On‑Demand, or Spot.

Google Cloud Expands AI Infrastructure and Services in India

🤝 Google Cloud is increasing local AI compute in India with its AI Hypercomputer powered by Trillium TPUs, enabling training and serving of advanced Gemini models with data residency and sovereignty controls. New local offerings include batch support for Gemini 2.5 Flash, a preview of Document AI, and real‑time grounding using Google Maps for location‑aware responses. Google is also supporting Indic Arena at IIT Madras with cloud credits to benchmark Indian multilingual models and to help grow the local AI ecosystem.

Firefox 145 Adds Stronger Anti-Fingerprinting Defenses

🔒 Mozilla has rolled out enhanced anti-fingerprinting protections in Firefox 145, initially active in Private Browsing and Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) Strict mode. Phase 2 measures add targeted noise to background image reads, restrict reported fonts to standard OS sets with select language exceptions, coarsen touch reporting, report screen height minus 48 pixels, and always report two processor cores. After testing these changes will be enabled by default; users can disable them per-site for compatibility. The release also removes the 32-bit Linux build.

AWS Backup Adds Native Support for Amazon EKS Across Regions

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS, providing a fully managed, centralized solution for backing up cluster state and persistent application data. The agent-free integration replaces custom scripts and third-party tools with a native, policy-driven service that offers automated scheduling, retention management, immutable vaults, and cross-Region and cross-account copies. You can restore entire clusters, specific namespaces, or individual persistent volumes to support disaster recovery, compliance, or pre-upgrade protection.

AWS Releases 2025 H1 IRAP Report for Australian Customers

🔒 AWS announced the 2025 H1 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers. An ASD-certified IRAP assessor completed the evaluation in September 2025, and four services were newly assessed at the PROTECTED level: Amazon Application Recovery Controller, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon Q Business, and AWS Resource Explorer. AWS also published an IRAP documentation pack aligned to ACSC guidance and the ISM (March 2025) to help customers assess and architect PROTECTED workloads. Customers can request inclusion of additional services via their AWS representatives.

Google Cloud N4D VMs with AMD EPYC Turin Generally Available

🚀 Google Cloud announces general availability of the N4D machine series built on 5th Gen AMD EPYC 'Turin' processors and Google's Titanium infrastructure. N4D targets cost-optimized, general-purpose workloads — web and app servers, data analytics, and containerized microservices — with up to 96 vCPUs, 768 GB DDR5, 50 Gbps networking, and Hyperdisk storage. Google cites up to 3.5x web-serving throughput versus N2D and material price-performance gains for general compute and Java workloads.

Amazon MSK Express Brokers Add Intelligent Rebalancing

⚡ Effective today, all new Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers support Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost. The feature automates partition balancing when clusters scale up or down, maximizing capacity utilization and removing the need for manual or third-party partition management. AWS reports Intelligent Rebalancing runs up to 180× faster than Standard brokers and scales brokers without impacting client availability.

Layered Security for SMBs During the Holiday Season

🔒 Small and medium-size businesses face rising, measurable cyber risk as ransomware incidents increase and attacks spike during the holiday season. Resource constraints and end-of-life Windows 10 devices magnify exposure, while firmware-level and endpoint gaps can defeat traditional defenses. A layered, defense-in-depth approach across silicon, the operating system, and endpoints reduces attack surfaces. Business-grade devices such as the ASUS Expert Series integrate these protections to turn necessary upgrades into strategic security investments.

Amazon Braket Adds Native CUDA-Q Support in Notebooks

🔬 Amazon Braket notebook instances now include native support for CUDA-Q, enabled by upgrading the underlying OS to Amazon Linux 2023 to deliver improved performance, security, and compatibility for quantum development and production-ready workflows. Developers can run GPU-accelerated quantum circuit simulation alongside access to QPUs from IonQ, Rigetti, and IQM within the managed notebook environment. This eliminates the need for local deployment or separate Hybrid Jobs, streamlining hybrid quantum-classical experimentation. CUDA-Q support is available in all Regions where Braket operates.

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 Now in AWS GovCloud (US)

🚀 Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now available in Amazon Bedrock within AWS GovCloud (US‑West and US‑East) via US‑GOV Cross‑Region Inference. The model emphasizes advanced instruction following, superior code generation and refactoring judgment, and is optimized for long‑horizon agents and high‑volume workloads. Bedrock adds an automatic context editor and a new external memory tool so Claude can clear stale tool-call context and store information outside the context window, improving accuracy and performance for security, financial services, and enterprise automation use cases.