Distill CLI: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Unveils Rust-Powered Media Summarization Tool

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, has recently launched Distill CLI, a personal project written in Rust. The open-source tool leverages Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Bedrock to generate summaries of audio

Non-Production Endpoints as an Attack Surface in AWS

The security team at Datadog recently disclosed a security issue on AWS where non-production endpoints were used as an attack surface to silently perform permission enumeration. AWS has since remediat

Azure Eliminates Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Fees to Encourage Deployment Best Practices

Microsoft has recently announced that Azure will no longer charge for data transfer across availability zones whether using private or public IPs. This change will facilitate the development of resili

AWS Introduces Amazon CloudWatch Internet Weather Map

AWS recently announced the availability of the Internet Weather Map, a new feature of CloudWatch that displays a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages. This new map offe

Amazon RDS Introduces Faster Storage for High-Performance Database Workloads

AWS has recently introduced support for io2 Block Express volumes on Amazon RDS. Priced as the existing Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) io1, the new io2 Block Express volumes are compatible with all database

AWS Waives Egress Fees for Customers Exiting the Cloud

AWS has recently announced free egress traffic for customers leaving the cloud and withdrawing their data from the AWS infrastructure. This initiative follows the guidelines of the European Data Act a

Amazon Q Data Integration in AWS Glue Simplifies Data Transformation on AWS

Recently, AWS announced the preview of a new feature for AWS Glue, enabling customers to use natural language for authoring and troubleshooting data integration jobs. With Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue, developers can provide a description of their data integration workload, and the service will generate an ETL script.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Modifies Pricing Model for Cloud Deployments

Enhancing Observability: Amazon CloudWatch Logs Introduces Account-Level Subscription Filter

The recent update to Amazon CloudWatch Logs introduces support for account-level subscription filtering. With this enhancement, developers can now access a real-time feed of CloudWatch Logs from all logs groups and have it delivered to a single destination for further processing.

Pinecone Introduces Its Serverless Vector Database

Pinecone recently announced the public preview of its new serverless vector database, designed to reduce infrastructure management costs while improving the accuracy of generative AI applications