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AWS – You now can restore Amazon DynamoDB tables even faster when recovering from data loss or corruption
You now can restore Amazon DynamoDB tables even faster when recovering from data loss or corruption. The increased efficiency of restores and their ability to better accommodate workloads with imbalanced write patterns reduce table restore times across base tables of all sizes and data distributions. To accelerate the speed of restores for tables with secondary […]
Azure – Azure Boards – Delivery Plans 2.0 is now in preview
With this release, we’re announcing the public preview release of Delivery Plans 2.0 and other improvements. Read More for the details.
Azure – The Azure Cloud Shell image has been updated
Azure Cloud Shell has been updated to use a new base image. This will provide updates to some of the most common tools and commands. Read More for the details.
GCP – Education 2021: Four areas in focus
Improving education in the midst of a pandemic is the challenge of our time. To help with this, many institutions are turning to cloud tools to rapidly innovate on behalf of students. Some of the education leaders who have taken on this work over the past year will join us to share their insights and […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies
AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies, which allow you to configure access to the Systems Manager API. When you create Amazon VPC endpoints for Systems Manager, you can attach AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resource policies that restrict user access to Systems Manager API operations, when these […]
GCP – What’s new in BigQuery ML: non-linear model types and model export
We launched BigQuery ML, an integrated part of Google Cloud’s BigQuery data warehouse, in 2018 as a SQL interface for training and using linear models. Many customers with a large amount of data in BigQuery started using BigQuery ML to remove the need for data ETL, since it brought ML directly to their stored data. […]
AWS – Amazon MSK now offers consumer lag metrics and select topic-level metrics for free
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now offers consumer lag metrics for new Amazon MSK clusters by default, making it easier for you to track whether your applications are consuming the latest data available in your Apache Kafka cluster. Consumer lag metrics quantify the difference between the latest data written to Apache Kafka topics […]
AWS – AWS Client VPN adds support in additional Regions
AWS Client VPN is now available in the Paris, Milan, Cape Town, Bahrain, and Hong Kong Regions. This increases global coverage of AWS Client VPN and brings the total number of available Regions to twenty. Read More for the details.
GCP – Money matters: Automating your Cloud Billing budgets
The bigger a cloud environment, the more important it is to have robust cost management tools, including budget automation capabilities. Budgeting tools can help you avoid unnecessary costs via proactive notifications of future (and actual) overages. Billing automation can help you support multiple budgets, each with very granular filters (we have customers with thousands of […]
GCP – You do you: How to succeed in a distributed, multi-cloud world
Why do we use more than one thing to solve a particular need? Sometimes we don’t have a choice. All my financial assets aren’t in one place because my employer-provided retirement account is at a different financial institution than my personal account. Other times, we purposely diversify. I could buy all my clothes at one […]