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GCP – Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus is now generally available
We are excited to announce that Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus is now generally available! Now you can get all the benefits of open source-compatible monitoring with the ease of use of Google-scale managed services. The rapid adoption of managed platforms and services across the cloud computing industry has shown that fewer and fewer […]
GCP – Google Cloud and Dell PowerScale transform semiconductor design models
New technologies like integrated artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, 5G communications, and Internet of Things (IoT) products, as well as the emergence of customers as competitors with in-house chip design capabilities are forcing the semiconductor industry to shift away from a focus on engineering and operations and toward a strong focus on product development, new […]
Azure – Public preview: Enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer for Azure Applied AI Services
Azure Form Recognizer now supports extraction from custom documents, W-2 forms, access to the read API, additional human languages and enhancements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing the launch of the 2022 AWS DeepRacer League Virtual Circuit
Today AWS launches the 2022 season of the award-winning AWS DeepRacer League Virtual Circuit. Developers of all-skill levels advance their machine learning (ML) skills and compete in the world’s first global autonomous racing league. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Backup protects Azure Files snapshots via lease feature integration
Azure Backup now acquires a lease on the snapshots taken by scheduled/on-demand backup jobs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Detective enhances search to better support security root cause analysis
Amazon Detective has improved search capabilities by adding support for wildcard characters and classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) notation on IP addresses. Amazon Detective helps customers conduct security investigations by distilling and organizing data from sources such as, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, and Amazon GuardDuty, into a graph model that summarizes resource behaviors and […]
AWS – Amazon Fault Injection Simulator now supports logging to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon S3
You can now record Amazon Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) experiment activities by sending logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3. AWS FIS experiment logs contain detailed information about experiments, actions, and targets, including start and end times, action names, and target resource ARNs. You can use these logs to identify the activities performed by AWS […]
AWS – Amazon Fault Injection Simulator now supports Task-Level Faults for Amazon Elastic Container Service
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) customers can now inject task-level container failures using AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) experiments. With this new AWS FIS fault action you can stop running tasks in your container-based applications, whether they are deployed on AWS Fargate or Amazon EC2 infrastructure, so that you can uncover the hidden bugs, monitoring blind spots, […]
AWS – Students, start your engines! AWS DeepRacer Student Virtual League is now underway
Starting today, students over the age of 16 and currently enrolled in high school or undergraduate programs globally can compete in the DeepRacer Student Virtual League for the chance to win prizes, glory and a trip to AWS re:Invent 2022, a learning conference for the global cloud computing community featuring keynote announcements. The AWS DeepRacer […]
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor introduces Priority for AWS Enterprise Support customers (Preview)
AWS Trusted Advisor Priority is now available in preview for AWS Enterprise Support customers, and provides a prioritized view of cloud optimization recommendations and the ability to track the status of these recommendations. Read More for the details.