Your Weekly Cloud Update - March 17 2025

Hey Cloud Wizards 🧙🏻‍♂️,

Staying ahead in cloud engineering means keeping up with the latest AWS innovations. This week, we’re diving into multi-arch containers, AI deployment, resilient databases, high-performance networking, and the future of data lakes. Whether you're trying to optimize your compute, scale machine learning, or bulletproof your infrastructure, these AWS updates are packed with insights (and a little humor). Let’s break it down!

👩🏽‍💻 No More “Works on My Machine”: Build Multi-Arch Containers with GitHub Actions & AWS

14 MAR 2025

Ever built a container image only to realize it refuses to play nice with your Graviton-powered AWS instances? This guide shows you how to create multi-architecture container images (x86 + Arm) using GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild, because your containers shouldn’t discriminate. Learn how to make them multi-arch compatible and store them in Amazon ECR, so they work everywhere. No more “works on my machine” excuses!
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💰 From Data Swamp to Data Goldmine: Amazon S3 Tables & SageMaker Lakehouse Integration

13 MAR 2025

AWS just made AI and analytics simpler with S3 Tables: the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support. Now, you can effortlessly unify data from different sources, supercharge your ML workflows, and pretend your data lake is as calm as an actual lake (spoiler: it’s usually a data swamp). Ready to simplify your analytic workflows? Click the link below!
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🤖 Qwen 2.5 on AWS: Deploying Multilingual AI That Actually Listens

13 MAR 2025

Large Language Models are evolving, and Qwen 2.5 is here with better multilingual support and enhanced role-playing abilities—so yes, your chatbot can now be an overenthusiastic medieval knight. This article covers how to deploy Qwen 2.5 on AWS AI chips using Hugging Face libraries, ensuring you get max performance without max headaches.
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🔮 Keeping Your Oracle Database Alive & Kicking on Amazon EC2

13 MAR 2025

Your database should be resilient, not fragile like your morning coffee schedule. This article covers best practices for architecting Oracle Database workloads on Amazon EC2, including failover strategies, Amazon EBS considerations, and AWS Backup magic to keep your DB running even when chaos strikes. If uptime is your love language, this is a must-read!
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🦾 Building an IPv6 Network That Won’t Flinch – AWS Cloud WAN & SD-WAN with GRE

12 MAR 2025

Networking folks, this one’s for you. Learn how to use AWS Cloud WAN Connect with GRE Tunnels and MP-BGP for IPv6 routing that can handle real-world failures like a champ. Route verification? ✅ Failover testing? ✅ Best practices straight from AWS experts? ✅ Time to level up your network game!
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Keeping up with AWS innovations doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Whether you're optimizing your infrastructure, experimenting with AI, or scaling up your networking, we’ve got you covered. Stay informed, stay ahead, and make your cloud workloads smarter, faster, and more resilient.

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The Cloud Pulse 🚀