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AWS – NICE DCV releases web client SDK 1.0.1
NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1. April 2021 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c have already been launched. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health
Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health is a new feature that enables you to automatically discover, manage, and visualize the health and performance of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) hosts across your applications in a single view. With Resource Health, you can visualize the health of your Amazon EC2 hosts in a map (or list) view […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic cross validation to improve model quality on smaller datasets by up to 35%
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, Autopilot performs cross validation on input datasets under 50,000 rows for all problem types – regression, binary classification and multi class classification. With cross validation, you benefit […]

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard adds support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances deployed on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
You can now use AWS Launch Wizard to deploy Microsoft SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) using fully- managed, shared storage in Amazon FSx for Windows File Server (Amazon FSx). AWS Launch Wizard provides a simple console-based provisioning experience to deploy a SQL Server FCI high-availability environment without having to manually identify and […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Dimension support for Metric Filters
Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Dimension support for Metric Filters. CloudWatch Logs Metric Filters allow you to create filter patterns to search for and match terms, phrases, or values in your CloudWatch Logs log events, and turn these into metrics that you can graph in CloudWatch Metrics or use to create a CloudWatch Alarm. Now with […]

AWS – Introducing AWS App Runner Integration in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs
The AWS Toolkit for JetBrains now provides developers with convenient IDE functionality to create and manage deployments from their code or image repositories using AWS AppRunner. AWS App Runner that was recently announced is a new service that makes it easy for customers without any prior containers or infrastructure experience to build, deploy, and run containerized […]

GCP – Anthos 101 learning series: All the videos in one place
Do you need to develop, run and secure applications across your hybrid and multicloud environments? Look no further than Anthos, our managed application platform that extends Google Cloud services and engineering practices to your environments so you can modernize apps faster and establish operational consistency across them. To help you get started, we created the […]

GCP – Optimize your browser deployment: Links to our most popular Chrome Insider posts
We launched the Chrome Insider blog in 2019 to share tips and best practices with IT admins so they could better deploy, manage, and secure Chrome browser. Since then, the series has covered everything from supporting legacy browsers to protecting enterprise credentials to simplifying deployments. To make it even easier to find and browse the […]
GCP – 6 businesses transforming with SAP on Google Cloud
Thousands of organizations globally rely on SAP for their most mission critical workloads. And for many Google Cloud customers, part of a broader digital transformation journey has included accelerating the migration of these essential SAP workloads to Google Cloud. These customers seek greater agility, elasticity, and uptime on a truly flexible cloud that includes the […]