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AWS – AWS Backup for Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS Backup’s policy-based data protection capabilities are now available for Amazon FSx in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now use AWS Backup to centrally automate backup and restore of your application data stored in Amazon FSx along with other AWS services for compute, storage, and database in the Osaka Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 R6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 now available in South America (São Paulo)
Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage are available in South America (São Paulo). R6gd instances provide up to 40 percent better price-performance and up to 50% more NVMe storage GB/vCPU over comparable x86-based instances for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i and R6i Instances available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i and R6i instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These instances are powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offering up to 15% better compute price performance over comparable Gen5 instances for a wide variety of […]
GCP – Monitor & analyze BigQuery performance using Information Schema
In the exponentially growing data warehousing space, it is very important to capture, process and analyze the metadata and metrics of the jobs/queries for the purposes of auditing, tracking, performance tuning, capacity planning, etc. Historically, on-premise (on-prem) legacy data warehouse solutions have mature methods of collecting and reporting performance insights via query log reports, workload […]
AWS – Use IAM to control access to a resource based on the account, OU or organization that contains the resource
Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduced a new way that you can control access to your resources based on the account, Organizational Unit (OU) or organization in AWS Organizations that contains your resources. AWS recommends that you set up multiple accounts as your workloads grow. Using a multi-account environment has several benefits including […]
AWS – Amazon Polly now offers a Neural TTS voice in Portuguese
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a Neural version of Inês, Polly’s European Portuguese female text to speech (TTS) voice. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces Karpenter v0.9.0 with support for Pod Affinity
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is announcing v0.9.0 of the Karpenter open-source cluster autoscaling project. Karpenter is a flexible, high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler that helps improve application availability and resource utilization. Karpenter v0.9.0 adds supports for Kubernetes podAffinity and podAntiAffinity scheduling constraints, which increases its compatibility with popular third-party Helm charts and expands support for high-availability use […]
GCP – Running VMware in the cloud: How Google Cloud VMware Engine stacks up
Google Cloud VMware Engine delivers an enterprise-grade, cloud-native VMware experience that is built on Google Cloud’s highly performant and scalable infrastructure. By enabling a consistent VMware experience, the service allows customers to adopt Google Cloud rapidly, easily, and with minimal modifications to their vSphere workloads, bringing the best of VMware and Google Cloud together on […]
GCP – Service Catalog: Introducing version selection for Terraform solutions
Enterprise IT admins use Google Cloud Service Catalog Terraform solutions to establish curated catalogs of self-serve Google Cloud infrastructure for their organizations. Now, with support for multiple Terraform versions for Service Catalog solutions, administrators create and validate their deployment configs with a particular version of Terraform. The version selected is used by the Service Catalog […]
GCP – A2A puts customers and the planet first by running SAP on Google Cloud
With more than 2.5 million customers, Italian utility company A2A is committed to delivering electricity, gas, clean water, and waste collection every day. More recently, the company made another significant commitment: To incorporate the principles of the “circular economy” into its way of doing business — part of the UN 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable-Development Goals — […]