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AWS – AWS License Manager adds ability to set up exclusion rules for automated discovery
AWS License Manager automated discovery now allows customers to exclude instances that do not need license payment per a customer’s licensing agreements. AWS License Manager automatically tracks instances across AWS and on-premises environments based on customer defined rules. While configuring automated discovery, administrators can now define exclusion rules using custom defined tags or AWS Account […]
Azure – General availability: New VM series supported by Azure Batch
Take advantage of new VM sizes that are now available when creating your Batch pools, including the latest HPC and GPU sizes. Read More for the details.
GCP – Using BigQuery Administrator for real-time monitoring
When doing analytics at scale with BigQuery, understanding what is happening and being able to take action in real-time is critical. To that end, we are happy to announce Resource Charts for BigQuery Administrator. Resources Charts provide a native, out-of-the-box experience for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting of your BigQuery environments. Resource Charts make it easy […]
GCP – Run a transformed supply chain – see how at Google’s Digital Supply Chain summit
At the start of 2020, who knew that our supply chains would be so disrupted that we’d have to worry about having enough toilet paper or paper towels? Yet, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many disruptions and unanticipated events. On a practical level, the sudden changes in consumer behavior placed supply […]
AWS – Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions. You can now synthesize all NTTS voices in this Region, including the Newscaster and Conversational speaking styles. In addition, you […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports highly available clusters on AWS Local Zones
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports running clusters with high availability across multiple AWS Local Zones. AWS Local Zones are an extension of an AWS Region where you can run your latency-sensitive applications using AWS services in geographic proximity to end-users. Previously, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis only supported launching a cluster in a single AWS […]
Azure – General availability: IoT Hub Azure portal extension update
If you’re using IP filter, add your computer’s IP address to the allow list to keep using IoT Hub in Azure portal. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Python with Apache Flink v1.11
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now supports streaming applications built using Python version 3.7. This enables you to write streaming applications in the Python language and run them using Apache Flink v1.11 on Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Apache Flink v1.11 offers support for Python through the Table API, which is a unified, relational […]
Azure – Public preview: Announcing the new Power BI embedded analytics playground
Check out the new Power BI embedded analytics playground (public preview). You can find in the new playground experiences for developer and non-developers to get first-hand experience of Power BI embedded analytics. Read More for the details.
GCP – Three lessons learned from a year of COVID-19 response
The past year has been a challenging one. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the way the world operates, and has created new information and logistical challenges for both communities and public health officials. Over the past year, we have been working closely with city, state, and federal officials to aid in the pandemic response, […]