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AWS – The AWS Panorama Appliance is now available for purchase in India and Taiwan
Customers in India and Taiwan can now purchase an AWS Panorama Appliance through the AWS Elemental purchase order process, a streamlined sales assisted ordering experience through the AWS Console that matches your corporate procurement workflow with the ability to pay via purchase order. With the expansion, customers can purchase Panorama through AWS Elemental in 49 […]
GCP – Accelerate your High Performance Computing journey with new Google Cloud HPC Toolkit
Introducing the Cloud HPC Toolkit Running High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads in the cloud provides many benefits, including the flexibility to create and tear down whole clusters within minutes. However, that flexibility comes with complexity. How do you pick the right machine configuration? How do you install your preferred scheduler? Set up your choice of […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager announces support for port forwarding to remote hosts using Session Manager
AWS Systems Manager announces support for port forwarding to remote hosts using Session Manager. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for your AWS applications and resources, providing a secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments. Session Manager, a capability of Systems Manager, provides secure access to managed instances in your cloud, on-premises, or […]
GCP – Take the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey
The State of DevOps report by Google Cloud and the DORA research team is the largest and longest running research of its kind with inputs from over 32,000 professionals worldwide. It provides an independent view into the practices and capabilities that organizations, irrespective of their size, industry, and region, can employ to drive better performance. […]
GCP – Enterprise DevOps Guidebook – Chapter 1
The Google Cloud DORA team has been hard at work releasing our yearly Accelerate State of DevOps report. This research provides an independent view into the practices and capabilities that organizations, irrespective of their size, industry, and region, can employ to drive better performance. Year over year, the State of DevOpsreport helps organizations benchmark themselves against […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M6id instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of new general purpose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances. M6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state disk […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C6id instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the new compute optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances. C6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state […]
AWS – Amazon Lightsail containers now supports deploying images from Amazon ECR private repositories
Amazon Lightsail now supports creating deployments for Lightsail container services using the container images on Amazon ECR private repositories. This launch will enable you to run containers with the simplified experience of Lightsail while utilizing the images you may already have in your private ECR repositories, thus enabling greater portability. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports SQL Server deployments using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS Launch Wizard announces support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Now you can use a simple console wizard to deploy SQL Server FCI on Amazon EC2 with FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the shared storage. This feature will save you time and effort replacing a […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports encryption of data in transit
Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports encryption of data in transit using Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.2. When using encryption in transit, all network traffic between your clients and Memcached cluster are encrypted. Read More for the details.