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AWS – Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix
Today, we are announcing the availability of three new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix. Wavelength Zones are now available in 13 major US cities , including the previously announced cities of Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington […]
AWS – Optimize personalized recommendations for the business metric of your choice with Amazon Personalize
Amazon Personalize now enables you to optimize personalized recommendations for a business metric of your choice, in addition to improving relevance of recommendations for your users. You can define a business metric such as revenue, profit margin, video watch time, or any other numerical attribute of your item catalog to optimize your recommendations. Amazon Personalize automatically learns […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon CloudWatch cross account alarms
Amazon CloudWatch announces cross account alarms, a new feature that enables customers to set alerts and take actions based on changes to metrics in other AWS accounts. Cross account alarms provide alerting based on trends in metrics in different AWS accounts and can be used in combination with existing cross account dashboards to setup operational […]
GCP – BigQuery Admin reference guide: Query optimization
Last week in the BigQuery reference guide, we walked through query execution and how to leverage the query plan. This week, we’re going a bit deeper – covering more advanced queries and tactical optimization techniques. Here, we’ll walk through some query concepts and describe techniques for optimizing related SQL. Filtering data From last week’s post, […]
GCP – 30 ways to leave your data center: key migration guides, in one place
Getting started with your migration One of the challenges with cloud migration is that you’re solving a puzzle with multiple pieces. In addition to a number of workloads you could migrate, you’re also solving for challenges you’re facing, the use cases driving you to migrate, and the benefits you’re looking to gain. Each organization’s puzzle […]
GCP – Integrating Service Directory with GKE: one registry for all your services
Kubernetes services often form part of a larger deployment. In addition to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you might be running other services on different Google Cloud technologies, as well as services on external clouds and on-premises. Service Directory is a managed product that allows you to maintain an inventory of all these services in one […]
GCP – Deploy optimized HPC clusters in the cloud with Intel Select Solutions
Configuring, deploying, and maintaining high-performance computing environments is a challenging and time-consuming task, but it is critical to achieving both compatibility and performance across a wide range of simulation and modeling workloads. Organizations typically rely on in-house experts or systems integrators to manage their on-premises HPC systems. Deploying similarly optimized and compatible HPC clusters in […]
AWS – Introducing Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework v3.0
The AWS Solutions team recently updated Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework, a solution that provides secure factory equipment connectivity to the AWS Cloud. This solution isa framework to send equipment telemetry data to your AWS account, allowing you to leverageAWS Services to conduct analysis on your equipment data instead of managing underlyinginfrastructure operations. The solution allows […]
Azure – General availability: New Australia Central region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now generally available for Australia Central customers. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now offers reserved instance pricing
Prepay and commit to one- or three- years’ worth of steady hourly service consumption on Hyperscale (Citus) for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database. Read More for the details.