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GCP – Introducing GKE Autopilot: a revolution in managed Kubernetes
In the years since Google invented Kubernetes, it has completely revolutionized IT operations, becoming the de facto standard for organizations looking for advanced container orchestration. Organizations that need the highest levels of reliability, security, and scalability for their applications choose Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). In the second quarter of 2020 alone, more than 100,000 companies […]
GCP – A look at the new Google Cloud Marketplace Private Catalog, now with Terraform support
In April 2019, we announced that Private Catalog was generally available to all Google Cloud Marketplace customers, giving cloud administrators, developers, and procurement managers within an organization a single, centralized home for apps and solutions that are approved for everyone’s internal use. Private Catalog makes teams more productive by making Google Cloud services, third-party and […]
AWS – Announcing two new on-demand digital courses for Media Services
AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce two new courses for Media Services: Media Supply Chain: Video Processing and Delivery and Introduction to AWS Media Services by Use Case. These digital courses are designed for organizations and individuals seeking to build cloud-based media workflows. Read More for the details.
AWS – New digital curriculum: Build Modern Apps with Purpose-Built Databases
We’re excited to announce a free new digital curriculum: Build Modern Apps with Purpose-Built Databases. The curriculum explores the benefits of Amazon purpose-built databases and illustrates a step-by-step process for creating and modeling the databases for modern applications. Designed for data engineers, database developers, and solutions architects, this intermediate, three-hour curriculum has six self-paced modules […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now shows scaling history for deleted groups
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows you to view deleted Auto Scaling groups in the scaling history. Previously if you deleted an Auto Scaling group, you need to either maintain the record of scaling activities for deleted Auto Scaling groups or ask support team to get the record for the same. Now, you can specify […]
AWS – New troubleshooting feature now generally available for AWS IoT Events
Today, AWS launched a new feature for static analysis of your event “detector models” (representations of your IoT devices as state machines on the AWS cloud) in AWS IoT Events. The feature automatically performs 7 different analyses (see list in developer guide) of your models for potential syntax errors (e.g. bad expressions or payloads), structural […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Big Sur
Starting today, customers can run macOS Big Sur (11.2.1) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on EC2 Mac instances. macOS Big Sur is the current major macOS release from Apple, and introduces multiple new capabilities and performance improvements over prior macOS versions. macOS Big Sur will support running Xcode versions 12.5 and later, which will include […]
AWS – Access Amazon EFS file systems from EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big Sur
Starting today, you can access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems from your Amazon EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big Sur. You can now mount your Amazon EFS file systems on your instances by using the Amazon EFS client, an open source toolset, installed using the Homebrew package manager. You can also mount […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Patches 1.8.1 / 2.6.2 / 3.3.2 now available
Patches 1.8.1 / 2.6.2 / 3.3.2 are now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. For detailed release notes visit our version documentation. You can apply the new patch version in the AWS Management Console, via the AWS CLI, or via the RDS API. For detailed instructions, please see our technical documentation. Read More […]
Azure – We’re retiring Network Performance Monitor on 29 February 2024
Transition to the new Connection Monitor in Azure Network Watcher. Read More for the details.