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AWS – AWS Marketplace launches aliases for all single AMI products
Today, AWS announced that customers can use aliases to refer to Amazon Machine Images (AMI) purchased from AWS Marketplace. AMI aliases are unique identifiers that be used instead of an AMI ID in deployment scripts. Starting today, aliases are available for all single AMI products on AWS Marketplace. This simplifies launching new AMIs as customers […]

AWS – Announcing the General Availability of AWS Local Zones in Chicago, Kansas City, and Minneapolis
Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Chicago, Kansas City, and Minneapolis. Customers can now use these new Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or for on-premises installations in these four metro areas. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.22
You can now launch RabbitMQ 3.8.22 brokers on Amazon MQ. This release includes a fix for an issue with queues using per-message TTL (time to live), identified in the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.17, and we recommend upgrading to RabbitMQ 3.8.22. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports SAP deployment from accounts using AWS Managed Services
AWS Managed Services (AMS) now allows customers to deploy SAP HANA-based workloads using AWS Launch Wizard. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers a catalog of operational offerings with Operations on Demand
AWS Managed Services (AMS) is excited to announce Operations on Demand, a flexible and scalable option to gain access to additional skilled AMS operations capacity, skills, and experience. Operations on Demand gives customers access to a full range of operational capabilities above and beyond the extensive scope provided by AMS Operations Plans. Customers choose from […]

AWS – Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere is now generally available
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere, a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that allows customers to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on customer-managed infrastructure, supported by AWS. Customers can now run Amazon EKS Anywhere on their own on-premises infrastructure using VMware vSphere starting […]

AWS – Amazon EKS Connector is now in public preview
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now allows you to connect any conformant Kubernetes cluster to AWS and visualize it in the Amazon EKS console. You can connect any conformant Kubernetes cluster, including Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters running on-premises, self-managed clusters on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and other Kubernetes clusters running outside of […]

GCP – PyTorch on Google Cloud: How To train and tune PyTorch models on Vertex AI
Since the publishing of the inaugural post of PyTorch on Google Cloud blog series, we announced Vertex AI: Google Cloud’s end-to-end ML platform at Google I/O 2021. Vertex AI unifies Google Cloud’s existing ML offerings into a single platform for efficiently building and managing the lifecycle of ML projects. It provides tools for every step […]

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager Automations for AWS Organizations v1.1 is now available
The AWS Firewall Manager Automations for AWS Organizations solution allows you to centrally configure, manage, and audit firewall rules across all your accounts and resources in AWS Organizations. This solution is a reference implementation to automate the process to setup AWS Firewall Manager security policies. This solution supersedes AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group […]
Azure – On-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines now in public preview
On-demand capacity reservations, now in public preview, enable you to reserve compute capacity for one or more VM size(s) in an Azure region or Availability Zone for any length of time. Read More for the details.