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AWS – AWS Marketplace enhances ISV self-service authorization of Consulting Partners
Today, AWS Marketplace announced that Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can now add custom product dimensions and specify End User License Agreement (EULA) when authorizing their preferred consulting partners to resell their software to AWS Marketplace buyers. This launch enables ISVs and consulting partners to work together more efficiently to create a Consulting Partner Private Offer […]
Azure – Azure Monitor’s Baseline and CalculateBaseline APIs will be retired on 30 November 2021
Azure Monitor’s Baseline and CalculateBaseline APIs will be retired on 30 November 2021, use the MetricBaselines API instead. Read More for the details.
GCP – What is Memorystore?
Many of today’s applications ranging from gaming, cybersecurity, social media require processing data at sub-millisecond latency to deliver real-time experiences. To meet demands of low latency at increased scale and reduced cost you need an in-memory datastore. Redis and Memchaced are among the most popular. Memorystore is a fully managed in-memory data store service for […]
GCP – Understanding Cloud SQL Maintenance: why is it needed?
Since I joined the Cloud SQL team, customers have asked me one question about our service more than any other: “What happens during Cloud SQL maintenance?” It’s a fair question–I’d want to know too if something was going to impact my database’s availability! In this blog series, I’ll take you through the ins and outs […]
AWS – AWS Directory Service now supports smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces in 5 additional AWS Regions
Starting today, you can use Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards to authenticate users into Amazon WorkSpaces through your self-managed Active Directory (AD) and AWS Directory Service AD Connector in US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. Additionally, you can […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M6i instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 M6i instances, expanding the 6th generation EC2 instance portfolio to include x86-based compute options. Designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage and network resources, M6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically […]
GCP – Zero trust: Putting it all together with policy
If you’ve been following along, you see how Cloudy brought together a strong understanding of identity, phishing-resistant authentication, good rules for authorizing people and groups, and checks on device health — all to make sure the cloud environment, with its software, data and processes, is safe for employees and end users. Want to go back […]
AWS – Detect multicollinearity and easily export results in a few clicks with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a […]
AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9
AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.9 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. You can now author AWS Lambda functions in Python 3.9 and use its new features, such as support for TLS 1.3, new string and dictionary operations, and improved time zone support. Python 3.9 also includes performance optimizations that you […]
Azure – Placement polices now in public preview for Azure VMware Solution
Placement policies enable admins to specify constraints or rules when allocating Virtual Machines within an Azure VMware Solution private cloud. With this update the creation and assignment of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) rules for running Virtual Machines in an Azure VMware Solution SDDC has been simplified and is now executable directly from the Azure […]