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GCP – Google Cloud for financial services: driving your transformation cloud journey
When I reflect back on the past year and the pandemic, I’m struck by how the reliance on remote work and operations has changed the fundamentals of business forever. For the financial services industry, this rings particularly true. Many conversations I’m having right now with organizations revolve around embracing a transformation cloud, and thinking of […]
Azure – Azure Storage Blob inventory public preview is now available in all public regions
Blob inventory allows you to get a full listing of all blobs within a storage account or container. This can be used in conjunction with Synapse to calculate per container metrics such as capacity and count. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Application Insight in South India
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in South India region for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Log Analytics in South India
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in South India. Read More for the details.
AWS – EC2 High Memory instances with up to 12TB of memory are now available in two additional regions with On-Demand and Savings Plan purchase options
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances with 6TB, 9TB, and 12TB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge, u-9tb1.112xlarge, and u-12tb1.112xlarge) are available in US West (Oregon) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. The global availability of these new instances now includes US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), AWS GovCloud (US-West), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now HIPAA eligible to help you run healthcare workloads more easily
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, is now Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible to help you run healthcare workloads more easily. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud AI in the developer community
Editor’s note: This post features third party projects built with AI Platform. At Google I/O on May 18, 2021 Google Cloud announced Vertex AI, a unified UI for the entire ML workflow, which includes equivalent functionality from the AI Platform and new MLOps services. Most of the sample code and materials introduced in this post […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.0
You can now launch Apache Airflow 2.0 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.0 is the latest version of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports storing CRLs in private S3 buckets
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now supports using S3 Block Public Access when storing certificate revocation links (CRL) in S3 buckets. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR 6.3 release version now supports Apache Spark 3.1.1
Amazon EMR 6.3 release version now supports Apache Spark 3.1.1 and provides runtime performance improvements with EMR Runtime for Spark. Read More for the details.