Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

New Amazon EC2 Instances (C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd) Powered by AWS Graviton3 Processor with Local NVMe-based SSD Storage

We launched Amazon EC2 C7g instances in May 2022 and M7g and R7g instances in February 2023. Powered by the latest AWS Graviton3 processors, the new instances deliver up to 25 percent higher performance, up to two times higher floating-point performance, and up to 2 times faster cryptographic workload performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. […]

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New: AWS Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona – More Instance Types, More EBS Storage Classes, and More Services

I am happy to announce that a new AWS Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona is now open and ready for you to use, with more instance types, storage classes, and services than ever before. We launched the first AWS Local Zone in 2019 (AWS Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles) with the […]

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Palo Alto Networks Extends CNAPP to CI/CD Platforms

Palo Alto Networks’ CNAPP now includes the ability to secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. Source: DevOps.com

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Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick

In this week’s #TheLongView: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators. Source: DevOps.com

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Breaking Boundaries: Integrating Generative AI for Developers

Many organizations are experiencing deficits in technical skills and gaps in productivity that ultimately harm their bottom line. To overcome those obstacles and drive growth, businesses can use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard to handle large volumes of data and increase the speed and output of basic tasks without draining valuable human capital. […]

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Upgrade SRE Performance Management With AI

In my recent blog, Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of SRE with AI-Engineered Tools, I indicated that AI could analyze application and infrastructure performance data to identify optimization opportunities and predict capacity requirements. In this blog, I explain in more detail how AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the pillar that I call performance management […]

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Universal Infrastructure – Aaron Kao, Pulumi

From the second annual PulumiUP conference, Pulumi announced they are providing universal infrastructure as code to all cloud builders, developers and infrastructure experts. Pulumi CrossCode is a language and cloud agnostic infrastructure as code engine that enables development and operations teams to build infrastructure in the industry’s most popular and powerful programming languages. Source: DevOps.com

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New – Amazon EC2 P5 Instances Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs for Accelerating Generative AI and HPC Applications

In March 2023, AWS and NVIDIA announced a multipart collaboration focused on building the most scalable, on-demand artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure optimized for training increasingly complex large language models (LLMs) and developing generative AI applications. We preannounced Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and AWS’s latest […]

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AWS Entity Resolution: Match and Link Related Records from Multiple Applications and Data Stores

As organizations grow, the records that contain information about customers, businesses, or products tend to be increasingly fragmented and siloed across applications, channels, and data stores. Because information can be gathered in different ways, there is also the issue of different but equivalent data, such as for street addresses (“5th Avenue” and “5th Ave”). As […]

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Preview – Enable Foundation Models to Complete Tasks With Agents for Amazon Bedrock

This April, Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and Machine Learning at AWS, announced Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Titan models as part of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Amazon Bedrock, currently available in preview, is a fully managed service that makes foundation models (FMs) from Amazon and leading AI startups—such as […]

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