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AlloyDB Ships Proxy Models That Replace LLM Calls with Local Inference inside the Database
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AlloyDB Ships Proxy Models That Replace LLM Calls with Local Inference inside the Database

Google shipped AlloyDB AI functions GA with a proxy model architecture that trains a lightweight local model from LLM outputs, then runs queries at database speed without external calls. Smart batching delivers 2,400x throughput improvement. The proxy model reaches 100,000 rows per second in preview, but benchmark numbers apply only to ai.if in internal testing. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

InfoQ - Architecture & Design - News ·
AWS Details How One Customer Scaled to One Million Lambda Functions
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AWS Details How One Customer Scaled to One Million Lambda Functions

AWS has outlined how ProGlove, an industrial-wearables manufacturer, was able to scale its SaaS platform to run more than one million AWS Lambda functions spread across thousands of dedicated customer accounts. By Matt Foster

InfoQ - Architecture & Design - News ·
Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved
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Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved

Cloud resiliency is about ensuring systems can adapt, recover, and keep functioning within real-world constraints. The post Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Microsoft Azure Blog ·
Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus
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Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus

Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.

The Cloudflare Blog ·
Full request and response compliance logging on Amazon EKS
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Full request and response compliance logging on Amazon EKS

In this post, we demonstrate how to use Envoy’s External Processing filter (ext_proc) to solve this challenge on Amazon EKS. This solution captures complete request and response data without modifying application code, providing the compliance-grade audit trails that regulators require.

Containers ·
S&P Global’s innovative disaster recovery strategy using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP snapshots
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S&P Global’s innovative disaster recovery strategy using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP snapshots

S&P Global Market Intelligence utilized Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to create a disaster recovery solution for their Capital IQ platform. This allows for a rapid failover to read-only mode in a secondary region within 15 minutes, with full read-write recovery available later. The implementation improves failover time and ensures data consistency for financial operations.

AWS Architecture Blog ·
External key management for Azure Managed HSM is now in public preview
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External key management for Azure Managed HSM is now in public preview

Azure Key Vault Managed Hardware Security Module (HSM) offers robust control over encryption keys, ensuring that they are generated and stored within a single-tenant, FIPS 140-3 Level 3 HSM that you alone manage. Microsoft does not have access to the key material, allowing you to determine access permissions for each key. The feature of external key management for Azure Managed HSM has now entered public preview, enhancing security and governance for users.

Microsoft Azure Blog ·
Cloudflare proudly joins the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge
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Cloudflare proudly joins the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge

The pledge is a voluntary framework inviting organizations to commit to foundational cyber security governance, board-level accountability, and supply chain rigor. For over a decade, Cloudflare has pioneered the core pillars of this framework: democratizing security, leadership accountability, and radical transparency.

The Cloudflare Blog ·
Your Worker can now have its own cache in front of it
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Your Worker can now have its own cache in front of it

We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers

The Cloudflare Blog ·
Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability
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Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability

Learn how Microsoft is building a digital twin of Azure Service Health and why it changes how hyperscale operates. The post Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Microsoft Azure Blog ·
Announcing Amazon EKS Rollback for safe and reliable management of cluster upgrades
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Announcing Amazon EKS Rollback for safe and reliable management of cluster upgrades

Today, we’re announcing Amazon EKS Version Rollback, a new capability that allows cluster administrators to safely roll back Kubernetes version upgrades on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. With this feature, you can now confidently roll out new version upgrades across your EKS fleet with an additional safety net.

Containers ·