Welcome to above the clouds
Azure – Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) support for Citus 10.2 generally available
The support of Citus 10.2 with PostgreSQL 14 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.
Azure – Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-November 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance for mid-November 2021. Read More for the details.
Azure – SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines: Multi subnet high availability generally available
Configure high availability and disaster recovery for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines using multiple subnets that’s easier and natively supported by SQL Server. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CDK releases v1.126.0 – v1.130.0 with high-level APIs for AWS AppRunner and hotswap support for Amazon ECS and AWS Step Functions
During October, 2021, 5 new versions of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) for JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, .NET and Go were released (v1.126.0 through v.130.0). The AWS CDK now includes high-level APIs (L2 constructs) for AWS AppRunner, a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and […]
AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for South African English
Today, Amazon Lex announces language support for South African English. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text so you can […]
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 […]