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AWS opens Interconnect last-mile preview with Equinix

Credited to Rackline · Thomas Brennan · aws.amazon.com22h ago

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Amazon Web Services on Nov. 4 opened a preview of AWS Interconnect - last mile with Equinix. Customers can now order managed private links into AWS from any of Equinix's 282 data centers without ordering cross-connects or configuring routers.

The service covers the last hop between a customer's colocation space or campus and AWS Direct Connect. In the AWS console, a customer picks a Region, a speed, a Direct Connect gateway and an Equinix Fabric One project ID. AWS then issues an activation key, which the customer enters in Equinix's Fabric One portal to finish the setup. Orders can also start on the Equinix side.

During the preview, 1 Gbps connections are free into the US West (N. California) Region through San Jose and the US East (N. Virginia) Region through Northern Virginia. AWS says speeds will run from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps once the Equinix option is generally available. It gave no date for that.

AWS and Equinix build the capacity ahead of time, with four separate links across two locations, and handle the routing setup for the customer. AWS says every connection carries a 99.99% availability guarantee. Traffic between AWS and Equinix edge equipment is encrypted by default.

For operators already on Equinix, the change is mainly in how they order. A cross-connect order and router setup are replaced by an activation key passed between two portals.

On Nov. 5, AWS added a new Interconnect - last mile metro in Northern Virginia, joining New York. Through that metro, Lumen customers anywhere in the continental United States can order connections to every public AWS Region outside China and to AWS Local Zones. Megaport and Equinix remain in preview there. The Northern Virginia option uses the same four-link, two-site design and the same 99.99% guarantee.

Customers can set up connections through the console, the AWS command-line tool or the API. AWS has published an open API package on GitHub for network partners that want to plug in.

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OpenAI agrees to buy Pierre Computer to expand its Codex coding tools

Credited to Rackline · James Whitfield · openai.com · 22h ago

OpenAI said on Nov. 4 that it has agreed to acquire Pierre Computer Company, a developer-tools startup whose open-source libraries already handle file browsing and code review inside OpenAI's Codex app.

Neither company disclosed a price. The deal still has to clear customary conditions, including regulatory approval, and the two companies will run separately until it closes. OpenAI gave no closing date.

Pierre's main product is Code Storage, a Git-based service that lets software store code and track its history. It also builds open-source tools for reading and reviewing code. Trees lets users move quickly through a project's files. Diffs shows what changed and is built to handle large amounts of code, and its edit mode lets a reviewer fix a line on the spot. Highlights, a newer release, colors code syntax as a developer types or as an agent writes code.

Codex already uses Trees and Diffs, and OpenAI said the purchase will add to the tools Codex has for writing, understanding and reviewing code. The company said it wants to build on the Git workflows developers already use and adapt them for teams that work with coding agents, from the first branch an agent opens to deployment.

The deal follows OpenAI's announcement earlier in the week that it is scaling Git inside the company with Pando, its in-house source-control system for engineers and agents.

Pierre's open-source projects will stay open, and OpenAI said it will keep contributing to them. Code Storage customers can keep using the service after the deal closes while OpenAI works to fold its features into Codex.

The announcement did not give Pierre's headcount or funding history.