Welcome to above the clouds
AWS – Amazon EKS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports IPv6, enabling customers to scale containerized applications on Kubernetes far beyond limits of private IPv4 address space, while achieving high network bandwidth with minimal complexity. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing 37 new resource types in the CloudFormation Registry
Since our last update in November 2021, AWS CloudFormation Registry has expanded to include support for 37 new resource types (refer to the complete list below) between November and December 2021. A resource type includes schema (resource properties and handler permissions) and handlers that allow API interactions with the underlying AWS or third-party services. Customers can now […]
GCP – Five do’s and don’ts CSPs should know about going cloud-native
As communication service providers (CSPs) continue to focus on capitalizing on the promise of 5G, I’ve been having more conversations with operators and network equipment providers on why and how it may make sense to adopt cloud-native approaches. More specifically, we often discuss best practices around accelerating the time to value of 5G and simplifying […]
GCP – Announcing preview of BigQuery’s native support for semi-structured data
Today we’re announcing a public preview for the BigQuery native JSON data type, a capability which brings support for storing and analyzing semi-structured data in BigQuery. With this new JSON storage type and advanced JSON features like JSON dot notation support, adaptable data type changes, and new JSON functions, semi-structured data in BigQuery is now […]
AWS – Amazon QLDB now supports JSON output format for exports
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) now supports JSON output format for QLDB Exports, in addition to existing Amazon Ion output format. Customers can select JSON when requesting an export and will receive journal data in newline-delimited JSON format. Read More for the details.
GCP – PyTorch/XLA: Performance debugging on TPU-VM part 1
In this three part series we explore the performance debugging ecosystem of PyTorch/XLA on Google Cloud TPU VM. TPU VM earlier this year (2021). The TPU VM architecture allows the ML practitioners to work directly on the host where TPU hardware is attached. With the TPU profiler launched earlier this year, debugging your PyTorch training […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in 8 additional AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), EU (Milano), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Regional Services List. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management launches Automated Retry capability for Jobs to improve success rates of large scale deployments
AWS IoT Device Management Jobs now supports a new Job execution retry configuration, enabling developers to increase success rates of large scale deployments by ensuring automatic redeployment of failed job executions. Instead of having to manually identify and redeploy to devices that fail, customers can now define a maximum number of retries in the ‘Job […]
AWS – AWS Snowcone is now available in AWS Europe (London) region.
The AWS Snowcone service is now available for customer orders in AWS Europe (London) adding to our growing list of regions already offering Snowcone including, AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), South America (Sao Paulo), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and […]