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GCP – Announcing Backup for GKE: the easiest way to protect GKE workloads
Organizations everywhere have been choosing to build on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), driven by benefits like higher developer productivity and lower infrastructure costs. And one of the fastest growing GKE architectures is the deployment of stateful workloads like relational databases, inside GKE containers. Stateful workloads have additional requirements over stateless workloads, including the need for […]

GCP – Announcing Filestore Enterprise, for your most demanding apps
As more organizations move to Google Cloud, they need to consider their storage architecture—particularly for applications that they plan to lift and shift. The fact is that many legacy applications can’t use cloud-based object storage like Cloud Storage, and instead require a file- or block-based offering. Today, we’re announcing Filestore Enterprise, a fully managed cloud-native […]

GCP – To serve and protect: New storage features help ensure data is never lost
Data is a company’s most important input and asset and one of the most critical tasks is protecting it. At the same time, customers tell us they wish it were easier to get the right level of protection for their data. That can be hard to do, whether your data is on-premises or in the […]

Azure – Azure VMware Solution achieves FedRAMP High Authorization
With this certification, U.S. government and public sector customers can now use Azure VMware Solution as a compliant FedRAMP cloud computing environment, ensuring it meets the demanding standards for security and information protection. Read More for the details.

Azure – JetStream Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution now in public preview
JetStream Disaster Recovery is now available on Azure VMware Solution in public preview, enabling DR protection needed for business and mission-critical applications. JetStream Disaster Recovery on Azure VMware Solution is also cost-effective, as it uses minimal resources at the DR site by leveraging cloud storage, such as Azure Blob Storage. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Lake Formation is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka)
You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Extract custom entities from documents in their native format with Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Comprehend, a natural-language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to uncover information in text, now allows you to extract custom entities from documents in a variety of formats (PDF, Word, plain text) and layouts (e.g., bullets, lists). This enables you to more easily extract insights and further automate your document processing workflows. Read […]

GCP – PyTorch on Google Cloud: How to deploy PyTorch models on Vertex AI
This article is the next step in the series of PyTorch on Google Cloud using Vertex AI. In the preceding article, we fine-tuned a Hugging Face Transformers model for a sentiment classification task using PyTorch on Vertex Training service. In this post, we show how to deploy a PyTorch model on the Vertex Prediction service […]

AWS – Amazon Timestream is now in scope for AWS SOC Reports
You can now use Amazon Timestream in applications that are subject to System and Organization Control (SOC) compliance. Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, secure, and purpose-built time series database for application monitoring, IoT, and real-time analytics workloads that can scale to process trillions of time series events per day. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) support for Citus 10.1 is generally available
The support of Citus 10.1, with columnar storage and more, is now included in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus), a managed service running the open source Postgres database on Azure. Read More for the details.