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GCP – Zero effort performance insights for popular serverless offerings
Inevitably, in the lifetime of a service or application, developers, DevOps, and SREs will need to investigate the cause of latency. Usually you will start by determining whether it is the application or the underlying infrastructure causing the latency. You have to look for signals that indicate the performance of those resources when the issue […]
GCP – Using a private repo on Artifact Registry in Google Cloud Functions
Late last year, we announced that Artifact Registry was going GA, allowing GCP customers to manage their packages within the same platform as they were being deployed. In this blogpost, we want to show you how to do exactly that with a private dependency. Private dependencies allow your packages to be shared with only a […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling to automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your cluster horizontally by adding or removing shards or replica nodes. ElastiCache for Redis uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to manage scaling and Amazon CloudWatch metrics to determine when […]
Azure – Azure Blob storage – Last access time tracking now generally available
This feature helps administrators control costs through the automatic tiering and deletion of blobs via tiering including when the data was last read. Read More for the details.
AWS – EC2 VM Import/Export now supports migration of virtual machines with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot to AWS
EC2 VM Import/Export now supports migration of virtual machines that use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot. UEFI is a modern firmware that initializes your operating system. You can now use EC2 VM Import/Export APIs to bring your UEFI based virtual machines directly to AWS EC2 without converting to legacy BIOS. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances
You can now hibernate Amazon EC2 C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances. Hibernation allows you to pause your EC2 Instances and resume them at a later time, rather than fully terminating and restarting them. Resuming your instance lets your applications continue from where they left off so that you don’t have to restart your OS and […]
GCP – How to get better retail recommendations with Recommendations AI
Time to go outside again, I guess. I’ll need a sun hat. Sunscreen. Maybe some new sandals? What else? With the Recommendations AI service, I might be reminded to grab a reusable water bottle and a swimsuit. Or some after-sun aloe lotion. Good thing, cause I’ll need it. Photo by Nawartha Nirmal on Unsplash Recommendations […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Archive Storage events for easy rehydration of archived blobs
React to rehydration events on Azure Archive Storage with Azure Event Grid. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing optimized Spark 3.1 runtime for data integration with AWS Glue 3.0
Today, we’re pleased to announce AWS Glue version 3.0, a new version of AWS Glue Spark for your batch and streaming jobs that accelerates your data integration workloads in AWS. AWS Glue 3.0 introduces a performance-optimized Spark runtime that includes optimizations from AWS Glue and Amazon EMR, and is based on open-source Apache Spark 3.1.1. The […]