Stories tagged cloud & infrastructure.
Planet PostgreSQL
I used AI tools to size an OLTP workload on an EC2 system, with DBT-5, a TPC-E-like fair-use implementation. I provided a systematic and mechanical plan for running a series of tests to determine what the appropriate scale factor is on a system. I pre-configured the database with some settings that…
Hackaday / CNX Software / Liliputing
Hat & Hammer has launched the OpenMote, an ESP32-S3-powered programmable universal remote that adopts the familiar, nostalgic form factor of a Nintendo Wiimote. It features WiFi, Bluetooth LE, an infrared (IR) transceiver, a 6-axis IMU, and Home Assistant integration, letting it control smart home…
Planet PostgreSQL
Never set your PostgreSQL locale to zh_CN — that old rule expires with PostgreSQL 19. The Chinese message catalogs went seven years untouched and nearly got dropped from the release. A bone nobody could chew through in seven years, finished in seven days.
DevOps.com / Cloud Native Now
Some of the most difficult production issues do not start with a failed service. The application is running, the database is reachable, requests are completed successfully and the monitoring dashboard is green. Yet users report that something is wrong because the information they depend on has…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the South America (São Paulo) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory…
Planet PostgreSQL
Turning RLS on takes five lines of SQL. These are the five ways it is silently off afterwards, or leaks around the edges — each one measured in PostgreSQL 17.
Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media
This week’s conversation is with Sam Lyman, head of research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Originally focused on cryptocurrency, Lyman’s organization has expanded to policy and messaging development around data centers, most notably providing research many AI boosters cite to claim foreign…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Continuum for penetration testing is a frontier agent that proactively secures applications throughout the development lifecycle by offering on-demand, customized penetration testing with real exploitability testing. Developers and security teams can now test login credentials and receive…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Amazon Elastic Container Service Express Mode now supports specifying ARM64 as the CPU architecture for your service, making it easy to deploy ARM-based container images on AWS Graviton-powered compute and benefit from up to 40% better price-performance compared to x86-based instances. Amazon ECS…
Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.
Planet PostgreSQL
The future of Postgres is bright. So bright in fact, that I spent almost a dozen posts expounding on the upcoming features it would bring, with veritable stars in my eyes. Unfortunately, while I was out counting my chickens, it would seem some of these exciting new features failed to hatch.How, and…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
The next generation of AWS Resilience Hub is a central location in the AWS that helps platform engineering and site reliability teams assess and strengthen the resilience of their workloads running on AWS. It provides automated dependency discovery, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis…
Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media
Resilience Energy debuted earlier this week with plans to coordinate VPP deals between communities and large loads. The post How this new startup plans to get data centers to pay for VPPs appeared first on Latitude Media.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS is announcing starting today, Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS RTB Fabric now supports configurable Availability Zone (AZ) affinity for responder gateways. With this capability, you can configure how your partners connect to your responder gateway: either in their own Availability Zone or to any Availability Zone that the gateway spans. This launch helps…
ransomware.live
Education / edtech · Vietnam | The complete CRM lead database: 152,044 contact records — names, emails, +84 phone numbers, cities, study interests, engagement history; The CRM file archive (tasks, forums, comments, customer files) migrated from GetFly CRM | Publication proceeds in batches after the…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Today, AWS announces the availability of the next generation of AgentCore Runtime, the serverless microVM compute within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The new Runtime delivers elastic memory management that reclaims unused memory throughout the session so you pay for actual usage rather than the peak…
Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media
Shoals Technologies takes us inside the power distribution systems behind modern data centers. The post The hidden power systems behind AI appeared first on Latitude Media.
Light Reading / Fierce Network / Telecoms.com / RCR Wireless / Mobile World Live
Chinese tech giant Huawei has become the country’s semiconductor champion of late, with an increasing focus on AI data centers.
Unit 42
Analysis of how default configurations in AWS AgentCore Harness allow prompt injection to exfiltrate credentials, and key steps to secure your agents. The post A Vault with a Heap-View: The Uncomfortable Space Between AgentCore Harness and Identity appeared first on Unit 42.
Planet PostgreSQL
postgres.scot is live Postgres events in Scotland now have a permanent address: postgres.scot It is a deliberately small page. Right now it points at the PostgreSQL Edinburgh User Group (PostgresEDI) on cloomba, where you will find RSVPs, a calendar subscription and an RSS feed, and it will carry…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS PrivateLink customers can now use VPC endpoint to privately and securely access network segments in another VPC/account. They can use a ‘tunnel’ endpoint, a new type of VPC endpoint, to tunnel into the network segment and access resources located within it. AWS PrivateLink is a highly available…
Planet PostgreSQL
Nobody asked for max_notify_queue_pages. It exists because a limit that used to enforce itself stopped doing so, and something had to take its place. LISTEN/NOTIFY runs on a single queue for the whole cluster, stored as SLRU pages under pg_notify/ in the data directory. Through PostgreSQL 16 that…
Planet PostgreSQL
Two client connections, opened one after the other through PgBouncer transaction mode, asked the same database whose rows they were allowed to see, and the second one got the first one's answer. It had set nothing, it had never met the first caller, and the rows it read belonged to that caller's…
Semafor (filter tech)
Major Asian economies are profiting from growing global demand for AI.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous generation T3…
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
George Osborne also praised the country's efforts to solicit international investment and boost AI adoption. The post OpenAI managing director says Canada an “obvious place” for data centre first appeared on BetaKit.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Run an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode without provisioning or operating the compute underneath it. You provide a container image or source code; Elastic Beanstalk with service-operated compute creates and operates the environment that runs it.
Planet PostgreSQL
SourceDocsProduct page2026-09-17pgColumnar 1.0-alpha4 release notesRelease date: 2026-09-17 Previous release: 1.0-alpha3 (2026-09-02)pgColumnar is a columnar table access method for PostgreSQL. This is the fourth alpha. Its theme is layout and skipping. A table can now be laid out on the Hilbert…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Transfer Family now preserves the client's source IP address using Proxy Protocol v2 (PPv2) when you place a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in front of your SFTP server that uses a VPC-hosted endpoint. You can now retain visibility of the client's source IP for IP-based auditing, access controls…