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AWS – Amazon RDS now supports X2g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports AWS Graviton2-based X2g database (DB) instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. X2g DB instances offer double the memory per vCPU compared to R6g/R5 instances and the lowest cost per GiB of memory in Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. The X2g.16xl DB instance has 33% more memory than […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds account application auto-discovery and new health dashboard
Setting up monitoring and managing the health of your business applications is now even easier with the ability to discover the applications and resources in your account even without a Resource Group, automatically set up monitoring for them and see their health at a glance in a summary health dashboard presented when you complete setup […]
AWS – Announcing Build on AWS for Startups
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Build on AWS, a new offering from AWS Activate designed to help startups build their infrastructure on AWS in minutes. Build on AWS is a collection of infrastructure templates and reference architectures covering a wide variety of solutions curated specifically for startups. These solutions are built […]
GCP – Announcing Backup for GKE: the easiest way to protect GKE workloads
Organizations everywhere have been choosing to build on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), driven by benefits like higher developer productivity and lower infrastructure costs. And one of the fastest growing GKE architectures is the deployment of stateful workloads like relational databases, inside GKE containers. Stateful workloads have additional requirements over stateless workloads, including the need for […]
GCP – Announcing Filestore Enterprise, for your most demanding apps
As more organizations move to Google Cloud, they need to consider their storage architecture—particularly for applications that they plan to lift and shift. The fact is that many legacy applications can’t use cloud-based object storage like Cloud Storage, and instead require a file- or block-based offering. Today, we’re announcing Filestore Enterprise, a fully managed cloud-native […]
GCP – To serve and protect: New storage features help ensure data is never lost
Data is a company’s most important input and asset and one of the most critical tasks is protecting it. At the same time, customers tell us they wish it were easier to get the right level of protection for their data. That can be hard to do, whether your data is on-premises or in the […]
Azure – Azure VMware Solution achieves FedRAMP High Authorization
With this certification, U.S. government and public sector customers can now use Azure VMware Solution as a compliant FedRAMP cloud computing environment, ensuring it meets the demanding standards for security and information protection. Read More for the details.
Azure – JetStream Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution now in public preview
JetStream Disaster Recovery is now available on Azure VMware Solution in public preview, enabling DR protection needed for business and mission-critical applications. JetStream Disaster Recovery on Azure VMware Solution is also cost-effective, as it uses minimal resources at the DR site by leveraging cloud storage, such as Azure Blob Storage. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lake Formation is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka)
You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Extract custom entities from documents in their native format with Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Comprehend, a natural-language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to uncover information in text, now allows you to extract custom entities from documents in a variety of formats (PDF, Word, plain text) and layouts (e.g., bullets, lists). This enables you to more easily extract insights and further automate your document processing workflows. Read […]