New Feature Drop brings updates to your Pixel hardware. Plus, Gemini Nano now powers on-device generative AI features for Pixel 8 Pro. source https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-feature-drop-december-2023/
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Gemini is our most capable and general model, built to be multimodal and optimized for three different sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano. source https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/
Use AWS Fault Injection Service to demonstrate multi-region and multi-AZ application resilience
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) helps you to put chaos engineering into practice at scale. Today we are launching new scenarios that will let you demonstrate that your applications perform as intended if an AWS Availability Zone experiences a full power interruption or connectivity from one AWS region to another is lost. You can use the scenarios to conduct experiments that will build confidence that your application (whether single-region or multi-region) works as expected when something goes wrong, help you to gain a better understanding of direct and indirect dependencies, and test recovery time. After you have put your application through its paces and know that it works as expected, you can use the results of the experiment for compliance…
Zonal autoshift – Automatically shift your traffic away from Availability Zones when we detect potential issues
Today we’re launching zonal autoshift, a new capability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller that you can enable to automatically and safely shift your workload’s traffic away from an Availability Zone when AWS identifies a potential failure affecting that Availability Zone and shift it back once the failure is resolved. When deploying resilient applications, you typically deploy your resources across multiple Availability Zones in a Region. Availability Zones are distinct groups of physical data centers at a meaningful distance apart (typically miles) to make sure that they have diverse power, connectivity, network devices, and flood plains. To help you protect against an application’s errors, like a failed deployment, an error of configuration, or an operator error, we introduced last…