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Weekly Cloud Info #W06 - 2025
Walid LARABI
February 07, 2025
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As usual, many AWS news, Azure, GCP and AI.
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📰 Top picks of the week
AWS Introduces Stack Refactoring: Enhance CloudFormation Management and Organization
AWS CloudFormation now enables stack refactoring, allowing users to move resources between stacks or rename them. This feature helps reorganize large stacks into manageable units and align resources with application architecture. An example demonstrates creating a new stack for SNS subscriptions to enhance organization and efficiency. The article provides insights into the necessary CLI commands for this process.
AWS Launches Managed Notifications for Streamlined Health Alerts
AWS has launched AWS Managed Notifications, enhancing AWS Health notifications management. Users can now view and adjust both default and custom notifications in the Console Notifications Center. New user-friendly features include subscription management and multiple delivery channels like push notifications, email, and AWS Chatbot. This service is available at no extra cost across all AWS Regions.
AWS Launches Amazon S3 Metadata for Enhanced Data Discovery and Analytics
AWS has launched Amazon S3 Metadata, making it easier to discover and understand data on Amazon S3. This feature provides automated and real-time updated metadata for objects, including both system-defined and custom tags. S3 Metadata supports integration with AWS analytic services and is currently available in select U.S. regions. Users can learn more about pricing and features through AWS resources.
AWS Offers DeepSeek-R1 Models: 90-95% Cost Savings for Generative AI
DeepSeek's new R1 models, featuring up to 671 billion parameters, are now available in AWS's Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, offering cost-effective solutions for generative AI. AWS emphasizes the importance of diverse models and cost efficiency for enterprise AI. DeepSeek models promise 90-95% lower costs and enhanced reasoning abilities through innovative training techniques. Organizations can leverage AWS infrastructure for easy integration and customization of these models.
AWS Enhances S3 Tables: Up to 10,000 Tables per Bucket, 100,000 Total!
Amazon S3 Tables now allow users to create up to 10,000 tables per table bucket, increasing the total capacity to 100,000 tables across 10 buckets per AWS Account in a region. This feature comes at no extra cost and is available by default. S3 Tables support built-in Apache Iceberg for tabular data storage and can integrate with various AWS Analytics services. Documentation and an overview are available for further information.
OpenAI Launches Deep Research in ChatGPT for Rapid Internet Analysis
OpenAI has launched a new feature called deep research in ChatGPT, enabling it to perform complex internet research quickly and independently. This tool analyzes multiple online sources to create detailed reports similar to those of a research analyst. It utilizes an upcoming version of the OpenAI o3 model for optimized web browsing and data analysis. Deep research represents a significant advancement towards achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Explore Free Azure SQL Database Offer with 10 Databases and 100,000 vCore Seconds Monthly
Azure now offers a free tier for Azure SQL Database, allowing users to create up to 10 databases with 100,000 vCore seconds, 32 GB of data storage, and backup storage at no cost monthly. Users can auto-pause databases or continue using them with additional charges once limits are reached. This offer is available to all Azure subscription types. To start, users can apply for the free offer on the SQL Database provisioning page.
Azure Monitor: Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode
Log Analytics now offers two modes that make log data simpler to explore and analyze for both basic and advanced users. The first one is 'Simple mode' that provides the most commonly used Azure Monitor Logs functionality in an intuitive, spreadsheet-like experience. Just point and click to filter, sort, and aggregate data to get to the insights you need 80% of the time. And the 'KQL mode' which gives advanced users the full power of Kusto Query Language (KQL) to derive deeper insights from their logs using the Log Analytics query editor. You can switch seamlessly between Simple and KQL modes, and advanced users can share complex queries that anyone can continue working with in Simple mode.
GCP Launches Spanner Graph: Unified Database with Enhanced AI & Visualization Tools
Google Cloud has launched Spanner Graph, a unified database for graph, relational, and AI capabilities, now generally available. It features an easy-to-use GQL interface and supports full-text and vector search. New tools include the open-source Spanner Graph Notebook for visual query development and integration with LangChain for GraphRAG applications. Users can start with $300 in free credits for Google Cloud databases.
DeepSeek Security Breach: Over 1 Million Lines of Sensitive Data Exposed
Wiz Research discovered a publicly accessible ClickHouse database owned by DeepSeek, exposing sensitive internal data, including chat history and API secrets. This lack of authentication allowed full database control and raised concerns about security vulnerabilities. DeepSeek has since secured the database. The potential implications for the industry are significant.
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