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AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups (ASG). This feature reduces Spot Instance interruptions to customers’ applications. When enabled, ASG Capacity Rebalancing is designed to automatically attempt to replace Spot Instances in an Auto Scaling group before they are interrupted. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Automatic Minor Version Upgrades
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now includes enhancements to the Auto Minor Version Upgrade feature for Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances. Auto Minor Version Upgrade is a feature that you can enable to have your database automatically upgraded when a new minor database engine version is available. Read More for the details.

GCP – Deploy Anthos on GKE with Terraform part 1: GitOps with Config Sync
Anthos Config Management (ACM)offers cloud platform administrators a variety of techniques to streamline cluster configuration. One ACM feature, Config Sync, allows them to use a Git repository to create common configurations that are automatically applied on Kubernetes clusters in their fleet, bringing a familiar code review collaboration process to config management. Another ACM feature, Policy […]

GCP – Foundational best practices for securing your cloud deployment
As covered in our recent blog posts, the security foundations blueprint is here to curate best practices for creating a secured Google Cloud deployment and provide a Terraform automation repo for adapting, adopting, and deploying those best practices in your environment. In today’s blog post, we’re diving a little deeper into the security foundations guide […]

GCP – Private Catalog: Enabling easier curation of Cloud Marketplace products
Google Cloud’s Private Catalog lets enterprise admins easily curate marketplace products and custom solutions for their users to consume. Today, we’re pleased to announce several improvements to the curation experience for software-as-a-service (SaaS) products that you procure from the Google Cloud Marketplace. With this release, admins can add these Marketplace products to the Private Catalog […]

GCP – New study available: Modernize with AIOps to maximize your impact
Organizations are currently modernizing their businesses in order to meet the increasing complexity of today’s business landscape. In effect, business leaders must evaluate the best way to mitigate the challenges which plague their cloud operations, all while meeting customers’ growing expectations around digital experience (DX) through agility, automation, and proactive incident avoidance. In this commissioned […]

GCP – How to connect a Private Cloud SQL instance to a Private IP VM
Imagine that you’re dealing with extremely sensitive data that’s stored in a MySQL database – credit card numbers, health records, sensitive text – you name it. You want to access that data from a virtual machine for critical application workloads but be absolutely sure that no traffic will ever be exposed to the public internet. […]

GCP – Announcing Apricot: a new subsea cable connecting Singapore to Japan
Did you know that 98% of international internet traffic is ferried around the world by subsea cables? As the ways that we work, play and connect become increasingly digital, reliable connectivity is more important than ever before. Today, we are announcing Apricot, a new subsea cable that will connect Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2
AWS Neuron, the SDK for running machine learning inference on AWS Inferentia-based Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2. Starting with Neuron 1.15.0 you can execute your TensorFlow 2 BERT based models on Inf1 instances with support for additional models coming soon. To learn more about Neuron TensorFlow 2 support, visit our TensorFlow 2 […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-account Data Sharing
Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to share live, transactionally consistent data across different Redshift clusters without the complexity and delays associated with data copies and data movement. Ability to share data across clusters that are in the same AWS account is already available. Now sharing data across Redshift clusters in different AWS accounts is also […]