Stories tagged cloud & infrastructure.
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Remarks at the Canadian Global Growth Forum follow recent guidelines on data centre development in Canada. The post Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez says Canada could become a data centre superpower first appeared on BetaKit.
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
How can open source projects maintain secure infrastructure without financial strain? OpenSSF Premier Member, Amazon Web Services (AWS) addresses this by providing critical funding and scalable compute resources.
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) support for CSI drivers shipped as Alpha in September 2025. With the March 2026 v1.0.0 release of the external-snapshot-metadata project, the feature moved to Beta. If you aren't yet familiar with changed block tracking for storage in Kubernetes, the Alpha announcement…
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
Memory QoS has graduated to Beta in Kubernetes v1.37 and is now enabled by default. On Linux nodes running cgroup v2, the feature uses the memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was first introduced as Alpha in v1.22, and expanded in v1.36 with…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
NVIDIA's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Alibaba's Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring specialized capabilities spanning agentic coding with long-context reasoning…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Mistral AI's Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models from the Ministral 3 family bring compact, vision-capable language models…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Google DeepMind's Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and NVIDIA's Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring the flagship Gemma 4 31B dense architecture to enterprise workloads in…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
BM's granite-speech-4.1-2b, Kakao's kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and the OpenFold Consortium's OpenFold3 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These three models bring specialized capabilities spanning…
SemiAnalysis (free portion)
Robot Models, Silicon Efficiency, Jetson Thor vs. B300 TCO, Deployments, The Network Wall
AWS — What's New / News Blog
There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are dropping, and it’s nearly sweater weather. The city is back at full speed, and so is the AWS launch calendar. This week that energy showed up in a new frontier model on Amazon Bedrock, a…
Semafor (filter tech)
Under consideration is the 5-gigawatt AI data center project underway with US technology partners, Reuters reported.
DevOps.com / Cloud Native Now
Cloud-native applications keep changing after deployment, making production-safe security testing essential for validating real vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and access-control gaps without disrupting live systems. The post Production-Safe Security Testing: A Missing Layer in Cloud-Native…
Semafor (filter tech)
The US House of Representatives will this week take up a bill overseeing the data center buildout.
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Plus: Where every province stands on data centres. The post Canada needs growth-stage capital, too first appeared on BetaKit.
Semafor (filter tech)
Some Republicans are hoping they can address voters’ affordability concerns before the midterms.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations now detect table property conflicts and track integration ownership. When you configure a source table and target catalog, Glue associates the resulting table properties with the owning integration, so two integrations can no longer be pointed at the same target table…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS End User Messaging now supports dynamic WhatsApp flows so you can turn WhatsApp conversations into rich, interactive experiences that end-users complete directly in WhatsApp. Instead of pushing end-users to a website or a separate form to complete an interactive experience, you can instead…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS End User Messaging is advancing its deliverability capabilities in phone pools. Now, customers sending through phone pools automatically benefit from automatic failover to the next best performing number in the pool when SMS delivery is impacted from downstream disruptions. SMS deliverability…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports Video Aligned Locking, a new feature to synchronize video pipelines without requiring timecode from the source. Previously, achieving frame-accurate locking across video outputs required investing in specialized hardware or managing complex, external…
Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has built what may be the biggest battery in the U.S. at its controversial Memphis AI computing hub. The exact size of the battery is unclear. Canary Media counted 720 Tesla Megapack battery containers visible on the grounds of the Colossus 2 data center in satellite imagery…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver…
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
I'm excited to announce that native histogram support for Kubernetes metrics is graduating to Beta and is enabled by default in Kubernetes v1.37! Native histograms (previously introduced as Alpha in Kubernetes v1.36 under KEP-5808) bring high-resolution, low-cardinality observability to Kubernetes…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Lambda now supports direct read configuration for Amazon S3 Files, letting you configure which storage your functions read from: S3 Files high-performance storage or your S3 bucket. With this launch, you can optimize the throughput and latency of file reads for your Lambda functions based on…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS announces the availability of TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, enabling customers to create multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content. Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base already supports media search by transcribing audio…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, giving you visibility into workflow resource utilization as runs execute. The 14 new run metrics span CPU and GPU usage, memory usage, file system usage and I/O metrics, network throughput, and ephemeral storage usage. AWS…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS DevOps Agent now enables engineers to manage production operations across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments with the complete investigation lifecycle directly within Slack. Previously, on-call engineers and DevOps teams faced fragmented workflows during high-severity incidents…
Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
Our collection of user-posted analysis, views, and unofficial news, gathered from our networks on LinkedIn, returns for its third outing.
Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare CASB policies introduce a native automation engine built directly on the Cloudflare developer platform to remediate SaaS risks automatically. Security teams can now design event-driven logic to revoke risky file shares and send webhooks without manual intervention.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports custom Generic Resource (GRES) settings and hardware topology, and adds support for Slurm version 26.05. These capabilities give you finer control over how Slurm sees and schedules your cluster hardware, improving task placement for HPC and…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Featured on Vercel Compute without the clusters AI SDK and AI Gateway: one abstraction for every model Workflow SDK for long-running backend jobs 3 engineers supporting 3 brands and 100,000+ users on Vercel Migrated 374 Sanity sites from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to Vercel AI SDK AI Gateway andpower…