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AWS – Amazon Monitron launches a new ethernet gateway device
Today, we are announcing the launch of Amazon Monitron Gateway (Ethernet), a new gateway device that allows customers to use their ethernet network to connect Monitron to the internet. The ethernet gateway joins the Wi-Fi gateway that was launched in December 2020, giving customers even more options for Amazon Monitron internet connectivity. Amazon Monitron is an […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.5.12, 10.4.21, 10.3.31, 10.2.40
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.5.12, 10.4.21, 10.3.31, and 10.2.40. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB […]
Azure – General availability: Azure DevOps August 2021 updates
With August updates, we added support for environment variables in Linux scale set agents. Now you can change the working directory of a Linux agent to use a faster drive than the OS drive. In addition, you can set a proxy to be used by the agent. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud improves Healthcare Interoperability on FHIR
The Importance of Interoperability In 2020 hospital systems were scrambling to prepare for COVID-19. Not just the clinicians preparing for a possible influx of patients, but also the infrastructure & analytics teams trying to navigate a maze of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. By default these EHRs are not interoperable, or able to speak to […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it […]
GCP – Traffic Director explained!
If your application is deployed in a microservices architecture then you are likely familiar with the networking challenges that come with it. Traffic Director helps you run microservices in a global service mesh. The mesh handles networking for your microservices so that you can focus on your business logic and application code, and that doesn’t […]
Azure – Upgrade to the latest version of Azure AD Connect before 31 August 2022
All 1.x versions of Azure AD Connect will be retired next year. Read More for the details.
AWS – Updated AWS Solutions Implementation: AWS CloudEndure Migration Factory Solution
AWS CloudEndure Migration Factory Solution coordinates and automates manual processes for larger scaled migrations involving a substantial number of servers. This solutions implementation helps enterprises improve migration velocity and prevents long cutover windows by providing an orchestration and automation platform for rehosting servers to AWS at scale. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering further automates storage cost savings by removing the minimum storage duration and monitoring and automation charge for small objects
The Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class automates storage cost savings for a wider range of workloads by eliminating the minimum storage duration, and removing the low per-object monitoring and automation charges for objects smaller than 128 KB. S3 Intelligent-Tiering is the only cloud storage class that delivers automatic storage cost savings when data access patterns change, […]
GCP – Financial Services firms must rethink payments model to bank on APAC digital growth
Banks and other financial service institutions (FSIs), such as payment processors, need to overhaul their fragmented legacy payment infrastructures, which can no longer support growing online demand in Asia-Pacific, where consumers want real-time response and personalized service. This will be increasingly pressing as market competition likely drives transaction fees closer to zero, and FSIs are […]