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GCP – Enabling SRE best practices: new contextual traces in Cloud Logging
The need for relevant and contextual telemetry data to support online services has grown in the last decade as businesses undergo digital transformation. These data are typically the difference between proactively remediating application performance issues or costly service downtime. Distributed tracing is a key capability for improving application performance and reliability, as noted in SRE […]
GCP – Announcing Vertex Pipelines general availability
Today, we’re incredibly excited to announce the general availability of Vertex Pipelines. One of the best ways to scale your machine learning (ML) workflows is to run them as a pipeline, where each pipeline step is a distinct piece of your ML process. Pipelines are a great tool for productionizing, sharing, and reliably reproducing ML […]
GCP – Scale your data science workflows with the Vertex AI Workbench notebook executor
When solving a new ML problem, it’s common to start by experimenting with a subset of your data in a notebook environment. But if you want to execute a long-running job, add accelerators, or run multiple training trials with different input parameters, you’ll likely find yourself copying code over to a Python file to do […]
Azure – Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is now generally available
Immutable storage with versioning is now generally available. Set time-based policies or legal holds on data so that the data becomes non-erasable and non-modifiable and protect all versions of a blob. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Batch introduces fair-share scheduling
Today AWS Batch introduced fair-share scheduling for AWS Batch job queues, making it easier to run different workloads in a single queue. Now, customers can determine whether to run jobs in first-in, first-out (FIFO) or determine a “fair-share” policy, which can allocate resources equally or based on admin-defined weights and priorities. With fair-share scheduling of […]
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports token-based authentication for APNs mobile push notifications
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports token-based authentication for sending mobile push notifications to Apple devices. When creating a new platform application in the Amazon SNS console or API, you can now choose between token-based (.p8 key file) or certificate-based (.p12 certificates) authentication. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces a new capability to switch license types for Windows Server and SQL Server applications on Amazon EC2
AWS now offers the ability to easily switch between AWS provided licenses and bring your own licenses (BYOL) for Windows Server and SQL Server workloads using AWS License Manager. License switching capabilities can be used as your business and licensing needs evolve. Changing the license type associated with your instance will still retain the application, […]
AWS – AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web applications hosted in an Amazon VPC
AWS Device Farm’s Desktop Browser Testing feature lets you test your web applications on different desktop versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge browsers. With today’s launch, we are adding support for testing web applications that are hosted in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Bastion native client support
Azure Bastion native client support brings you the ability to connect to target VMs from the command line and log in using their Azure Active Directory credentials. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Bastion IP based connection
Unlock secure global remote connectivity with Azure Bastion’s new IP based connection capability. Read More for the details.