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AWS – Amazon EC2 C6g and R6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 now available in additional regions.
Starting today, the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6g instances are now available in Middle East (Bahrain) region. The C6g instances are ideal for compute-intensive applications such as high performance computing, video encoding, gaming, and CPU-based machine learning inference acceleration. Additionally, memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6a Instances are Now Available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6a instances are available in are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage and network resources, M6a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory […]
GCP – Are you a multicloud engineer yet? The case for building skills on more than one cloud
Over the past few months, I made the choice to move from the AWS ecosystem to Google Cloud — both great clouds! — and I think it’s made me a stronger, more well-rounded technologist. But I’m just one data point in a big trend. Multicloud is an inevitability in medium-to-large organizations at this point, as […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Launches Two New Features to Manage and Monitor Communications Between Device and Cloud
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is a fully managed LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) of AWS IoT Core that allows customers to connect wireless devices to the AWS cloud using the low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) technology. Now, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN supports two new features, Downlink Queue Management and Network Analyzer, to help […]
AWS – Amazon ECR adds the ability to monitor repository pull statistics
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) launched the ability to monitor repository pull statistics through Amazon CloudWatch. The new pull statistics helps you to monitor usage patterns or identify anomalous behavior by observing image pull requests per repository. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 now provides application entitlements for SAML 2.0 federated user identities
Starting today, you can control access to specific applications within your Amazon AppStream 2.0 stacks based on SAML 2.0 attribute assertions. In addition, your SAML 2.0 federated user identities can access multiple AppStream 2.0 stacks from a single SAML 2.0 service provider (SP) application. Previously, each stack required a separate service provider application configured in […]
Azure – Azure Traffic Manager: Additional IP addresses for endpoint monitoring service.
Update your network access control rules if you see Traffic Manager health probes with new IP addresses. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now support Cluster Placement Groups
Starting today, customers can use Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations to reserve capacity for cluster placement groups. With cluster placement groups, customers can launch EC2 instances into logical groups within a segment of the network with high bisection bandwidth, thus getting low latency and high throughput between instances inside the cluster. Cluster placement groups are […]
AWS – Instance Tags now available on the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service
You can now access your instance’s tags from the EC2 Instance Metadata Service. Tags enable you to categorize your AWS resources in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. This is useful when you have many resources of the same type—you can quickly identify a specific resource based on the tags that you’ve […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14
AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 14 runtime now support code packaged as ECMAScript modules, allowing Lambda customers to consume a wider range of JavaScript packages in their Lambda functions. In addition, Lambda customers can now take advantage of ‘top-level await’, a Node.js 14 language feature. When used with Provisioned Concurrency, this improves cold-start performance […]