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AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports rollback protection for database major version upgrades
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now offers rollback protection for major version upgrades. Read More for the details.
AWS – New digital course: AWS Cloud Technical Essentials
AWS Training and Certification launched a new course entitled AWS Cloud Technical Essentials. Available for free on Coursera and edX, this course uses video lectures and demonstrations to teach the technical fundamentals of AWS. Upon course completion, learners will be able to make an informed decision about when and how to apply core AWS services […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports ‘No Rollback on Failure’
Starting today, AWS Launch Wizard deployments support the ‘No Rollback on Failure’ feature for all Launch Wizard applications. Now, when a Launch Wizard deployment fails, resources that were created as part of the deployment will not be immediately deleted/rolled back. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QLDB Increases Verification APIs Throughput by an Order of Magnitude
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) launches increased performance and latency reduction for control plane verification APIs. With this improvement, QLDB customers will experience an average latency reduction of up to 70% and the ability to scale at least 10 times from the current call volumes in many scenarios. Read More for the details.
Azure – Directory scoped shared access signatures (SAS) generally available
Directory scoped SAS allows more granular access assignment for ADLS Gen2. Read More for the details.
AWS – S3 Object Lambda allows you to add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application
With S3 Object Lambda you can add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application. For the first time, you can use custom code to modify the data returned by standard S3 GET requests to filter rows, dynamically resize images, redact confidential data, and much […]
GCP – A2 VMs now GA—the largest GPU cloud instances with NVIDIA A100 GPUs
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of A2 VMs based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine, enabling customers around the world to run their NVIDIA CUDA-enabled machine learning (ML) and high performance computing (HPC) scale-out and scale-up workloads more efficiently and at a lower cost. Our A2 […]
GCP – Building real-time market data front-ends with websockets and Google Cloud
For those in the financial industry, the core applications for electronic trading of financial instruments have stringent tolerances around latency, throughput, and jitter. But there are also peripheral use cases that would benefit from real-time market data streams, and that are more tolerant of performance variability, such as data visualization and monitoring applications. Until recently, […]
GCP – Analyzing Python package downloads in BigQuery
The Google Cloud Public Datasets program recently published the Python Package Index (PyPI) dataset into the marketplace. PyPI is the standard repository for Python packages. If you’ve written code in Python before, you’ve probably downloaded packages from PyPI using pip or pipenv. This dataset provides statistics for all package downloads, along with metadata for each […]
Azure – Public preview: App Service Managed Certificates now supports apex domains
Create apex domains on your Linux and Windows web app at no additional cost. Read More for the details.