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Azure – New Azure Spot Virtual Machines features
You can now access the price history of Spot Virtual Machines and the eviction rate for the past 28 trailing days in the Azure portal. Read More for the details.
GCP – Drive conversions with Google Maps Platform retail solutions
The 2020 holiday season presents a unique opportunity for retailers to showcase their flexibility in adapting to shifting consumer behavior. COVID-19 has transformed how consumers shop and how retailers sell. Favoring convenience, safety, and value, consumers are more open to switching brands. Studies show that 35% of those who experienced problems in the shopping journey […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Price Reductions – Up to 18% for ml.P3 and ml.P2 instances
Today we are announcing a price reduction of up to 18% on all ml.p3 and ml.p2 instances in Amazon SageMaker, making them an even more cost-effective solution to meet your machine learning needs. The new price reductions will be effective Oct 1st 2020 and will apply to ml.p3 and ml.p2 instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks, […]
AWS – AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports new version of Chef Automate
AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports the new version of Chef Automate for its fully managed service. Customers benefit from receiving the update automatically during the weekly system maintenance window scheduled individually by each customer. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Red Hat OpenShift – Pricing and service updates
Lower prices, more flexible purchase options, and an improved SLA. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Communication Services SMS and Telephony now available in Public Preview
Build engaging communication experiences with the same secure platform used by Microsoft Teams. Add video, voice, SMS, chat, and telephony capabilities into almost any web, mobile, or desktop application. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Running Multi-Container Applications on AL2 based Docker Platform
You can now run multi-container applications in AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the Docker platform built on top of Amazon Linux 2 Operating System. The Elastic Beanstalk Docker on Amazon Linux 2 platform now supports docker-compose.yml format to define and run multiple containers. For more information about Docker on Amazon Linux 2 platform, see the Elastic […]
AWS – New digital course on Trailhead: AWS Cloud for Technical Professionals
AWS Training and Certification has launched AWS Cloud for Technical Professionals, a new self-paced digital course available exclusively on Trailhead, the Salesforce learning platform. Recommended for technical learners who are new to the AWS Cloud or are interested in building their AWS Cloud skills, this course covers AWS fundamental concepts such as Regions, Availability Zones, […]
GCP – Introducing HTTP/gRPC server streaming for Cloud Run
We are excited to announce the availability of server-side HTTP streaming for your serverless applications running on Cloud Run (fully managed). With this enhanced networking capability, your Cloud Run services can serve larger responses or stream partial responses to clients during the span of a single request, enabling quicker server response times for your applications. […]
AWS – Introducing Distributed Load Testing v1.1
Distributed Load Testing on AWS helps you easily simulate thousands of users connecting to your application so that you can better understand your application performance under load. The solution launches and configures containers on AWS Fargate to generate a specified number of transactions per second without having to provision servers. Read More for the details.