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AWS – New Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes automated performance settings make it even easier to modify volumes and save costs
As your application needs change, Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes allows you to easily increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of Amazon EBS volumes. Customers are using EBS Elastic Volumes to migrate to gp3 volumes and save up to 20% per GB compared to gp2 volumes. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions
Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now generally available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. Creating a WorkSpaces Web portal in a local region provides a more responsive experience for users when streaming web content. It also enables customers to meet local data residency obligations. WorkSpaces Web […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces open source ODBC driver with binary protocol support and enhanced performance
The Amazon Redshift ODBC driver is now open source and available for the user community under the Apache-2.0 license. With this release, customers will gain enhanced visibility to the driver implementation and can contribute to its development. Users can browse the code for the ODBC driver on the relevant AWS GitHub repository, submit driver functionality […]
AWS – Porting Assistant for .NET adds support for assessment and porting of VB.NET applications to .NET Core
Porting Assistant for .NET now supports assessment and porting of legacy .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET language. With this release, Porting Assistant will translate VB.NET class libraries, web APIs, and console applications to .NET Core 3.1, .NET 5, or .NET 6 to simplify the modernization of legacy .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET . […]
Azure – Public preview: Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. Provision the IOPS and throughput you need without necessarily purchasing additional storage capacity. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Timestream announces improved cost-effectiveness with updates to metadata metering
Amazon Timestream will no longer charge customers for the dimension names and measure names associated with ingesting, storing, and querying data written after July 8, 2022 00:00 UTC. Dimension names and measure names are metadata that is used to identify time series data. With this change, Amazon Timestream provides customers increased flexibility in dimension and […]
AWS – AWS Glue now supports smaller instance types for streaming
AWS Glue launches G.025X, a new quarter DPU worker type for streaming extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. This smaller worker type is suitable to process low volume and sporadic data streams. Read More for the details.
GCP – Flock Freight builds a more efficient, resilient and environmentally sustainable shipping supply chain on Google Cloud
Commercial trucks often travel partially empty because many shippers don’t have enough cargo to fill an entire container or trailer. Although offering available space to other shippers helps minimize carbon emissions and reduce operating costs, most trucking companies can’t efficiently schedule, track, or deliver multiple freight loads. Companies have always struggled to ship over-the-road freight […]
Azure – Public preview: OVN-Kubernetes network provider for Azure Red Hat OpenShift
OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) for Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster is now in public preview. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) Overview
Sensitive data can show up in unexpected places—for example, customers might inadvertently send you sensitive data in a customer support chat or file upload. And if you’re using data for analytics and machine learning, it’s imperative that sensitive data be handled appropriately to protect users’ privacy. It’s important to take a holistic look at where […]