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AWS – AWS App Mesh introduces enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities
The AWS App Mesh introduces enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities. Now you can control how App Mesh rewrites external requests, so that they reach the correct destination within your mesh. You also have greater flexibility controlling how the requests are matched to the destinations in the Gateway and Virtual Router Routes. AWS App Mesh is […]
AWS – Announcing per second billing for EC2 Windows Server and SQL Server Instances
Effective Jun 11, 2021, AWS has extended per second billing to Windows Server and SQL Server instances running on Amazon EC2. Customers will only pay for Windows Server and SQL Server instances that are launched in On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot form running on Amazon EC2 in one second increments, with a minimum of 1 minute. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now allows you to create crash-consistent AMIs from instances with multiple EBS volumes without rebooting instances
You will now be able to create crash-consistent Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of your Amazon EBS-backed multi-volume instance without requiring a reboot. The AMI created will retain data from all completed I/O operations of each volume attached to the instance. This ensures that you can launch an instance from the AMI and return to the […]
AWS – Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast support on Transit Gateway multicast is now available in AWS GovCloud Regions
Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway supports internet group management protocol (IGMP) multicast in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Direct routing for Azure Communication Services coming soon
Developers will be able to use or extend their existing telephony infrastructure to the calling capabilities they build with Azure Communication Services. Read More for the details.
Azure – Call recording for Azure Communication Services coming soon
Call recording for Azure Communication Services helps to simplify and improve the recording process during calls. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Dev Spaces retired on May 15, 2021
Take advantage of Bridge for Kubernetes for development scenarios that Azure Dev Spaces previously supported. Read More for the details.
GCP – Ubuntu Pro lands on Google Cloud
Today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of Ubuntu Pro images on Google Cloud, providing customers with an improved Ubuntu experience, expanded security coverage, and integration with critical Google Cloud features. In partnership with Canonical, we’re making it even easier for customers that have fully embraced open source to ensure security and compliance for […]
GCP – Arab Bank: Accelerating application innovation with Anthos and Apigee
Founded in 1930 and headquartered in Jordan, Arab Bank is one of the oldest banks in the Middle East. Operating out of 28 countries, we’ve earned our customers’ trust with a prudent approach to operations and respect for the cultures and customs in the region. With a few exceptions where cloud providers have hosted their […]
GCP – Dataproc best practices guide
Dataproc is a fully managed service for hosting open source distributed processing platforms such as Apache Spark, Presto, Apache Flink and Apache Hadoop on Google Cloud. Unlike on-premise clusters, Dataproc provides organizations the flexibility to provision and configure clusters of varying size on demand. In addition, Dataproc has powerful features to enable your organization to […]