Over the past week, we passed Laba festival, a traditional marker in the Chinese calendar that signals the final stretch leading up to the Lunar New Year. For many in China, it’s a moment associated with reflection and preparation, wrapping up what the year has carried, and turning attention toward what lies ahead. Looking forward, […]
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Zero-downtime deployment means releasing updates to a WordPress site without interrupting service or affecting users. In production environments, this ensures that visitors continue browsing, transactions complete normally, and no content or data is lost during new code deployment. Traditional FTP-based or in-place updates often cause temporary outages, broken layouts, inconsistent plugin states, or database mismatches […]
As organizations scale their workloads on Google Cloud Platform, cloud bills often grow faster than expected. What begins as a flexible, usage-based model can quickly turn into a cost challenge if visibility is missing. This is where GCP monitoring becomes critical, not only for performance and uptime, but also for understanding how cloud usage translates […]
For many of us, education has been a one-size-fits-all experience. You sit in a classroom (or these days, sometimes, in front of a laptop or tablet), a teacher lectures, you listen and take notes. There are labs where you get your hands dirty, and teachers call on students to answer questions and participate, but for […]
Agentic AI can think, act, and share information independently. That’s enormously beneficial. But it’s also created a hidden exposure layer – one that isn’t obvious in logs or endpoints but can put systems, data, and workflows at risk. Two protocols are behind this behavior: MCP, which expands exposure outwards to tools and systems, and A2A, […]
Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data is still flowing! This week brings exciting news for customers running GPU-intensive workloads, with the launch of our newest graphics and AI inference […]
The year 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for enterprise IT infrastructure budgets. While a year ago tariffs were the primary concern, now exploding demands for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and high-capacity flash storage (NAND/SSDs) needed for AI infrastructure are adding to equipment shortages and price pressures. In particular, DRAM and SSD prices […]
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances that deliver cost-effective performance for generative AI inference workloads and the highest performance for graphics workloads. G7e instances are accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and are well suited for a broad range of GPU-enabled […]
Editor’s Note (January 2026): This piece has been updated to reflect the latest technological trends, including 2026 global spending forecasts and the critical “AI skills gap” currently impacting the global economy. For the past several years, most organizations have made it their priority to shift much of their applications and data from on-premises to the […]
At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and writing my first post in 2026 which also happens to be my last post for the AWS News Blog (more on this later). The AWS community is starting the […]