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Azure – Azure Spot Virtual Machines: Try to restore functionality now generally available
You can now opt-in and use this feature while deploying Spot VMs using Virtual Machine Scale Sets. This new feature will automatically try to restore an evicted Spot VM to maintain the desired target compute capacity (e.g., number of VMs) in a scale set. Read More for the details.
Azure – Zerto Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution
Zerto Disaster Recovery is now available and supported with Azure VMware Solution, delivering data protection and disaster recovery services that eliminate data loss and downtime for vSphere virtual machines running on Azure VMware Solution environment. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for time series data
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot supports time series data. You can now use SageMaker Autopilot to build machine learning models for regression and classification problems for time series data or any […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying OS and DB environment. Amazon RDS Custom is now available for the Oracle database engine. Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle automates setup, operation, and scaling of databases in the cloud while […]
GCP – Enhanced map style rolling out as default basemap in November
Last year we evolved the look of Google Maps with enhanced depictions of natural features across the map. At the same time, this style became the default map for users of Cloud-based maps styling on Google Maps Platform. To make sure your map experiences reflect the Google Maps of today, we’re rolling out the same […]
GCP – Avoiding GCF anti-patterns part 2: How to reuse Cloud Function instances for future invocations
Editor’s note: Over the next several weeks, you’ll see a series of blog posts focusing on best practices for writing Google Cloud Functions based on common questions or misconceptions as seen by the Support team. We refer to these as “anti-patterns” and offer you ways to avoid them. This article is the second post in the […]
Azure – Azure Red Hat OpenShift now available in public preview in Azure Government
Azure Government customers can use Azure Red Hat OpenShift to build cloud-native applications Read More for the details.
Azure – Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 RTM for OEMs
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021, the operating system offering for embedded and IoT device has gone RTM for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Read More for the details.
GCP – BigQuery Omni now available for AWS and Azure, for cross cloud data analytics
2021 has been a year punctuated with new realities. As enterprises now interact mainly online, data and analytics teams need to better understand their data by collaborating across organizational boundaries. Industry research shows 90% of organizations have a multicloud strategy which adds complexity to data integration, orchestration and governance. While building and running enterprise solutions […]
GCP – 9 things I freakin’ love about Google Cloud identity and environments
I’ve been at Google Cloud just a few weeks, following years of experience as an AWS Hero and building on other clouds. So last week’s Google Cloud Next–my first!—was a bit of a culture shock. On the GCP podcast, I used the word “intentionality” to describe what I’m seeing: a thoughtful, holistic approach that informs […]