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GCP – Schools turn to Google Cloud to help re-open campuses
Schools and institutions are feeling optimistic that they’ll be able to have more in-person instruction in the near future and are eager to welcome students back. But institutions know that reopening safely is a complex challenge and delivering the services we all count on– such as housing, dining and athletics– faces uncertainty. They must plan […]
AWS – New digital rewards and racer profile personalization features on the AWS DeepRacer console
AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning, giving developers the chance to learn ML hands-on with a 1/18th scale autonomous car, 3D virtual racing simulator, and the world’s largest global autonomous car racing league. With the 2021 AWS DeepRacer League Virtual Circuit now underway, developers have five times more opportunities […]
AWS – Amazon FSx and AWS Backup announce support for copying file system backups across AWS Regions and AWS accounts
Amazon FSx and AWS Backup now enable you to copy your Amazon FSx file system backups (both Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Lustre) across AWS Regions, AWS accounts, or both. With cross-region backups, you can store a copy of your backup data in AWS Regions other than where your primary […]
Azure – General availability: Lustre® HSM tools now available to import from or export to Azure Storage.
New tooling available for integrating Lustre file systems with an Azure storage account. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports data sharing when producer clusters are paused
Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to share live data across Redshift clusters for read purposes without the complexity and delays associated with data copies and data movement. Redshift already allows you to pause and resume your data sharing consumer clusters on-demand or based on schedule according to your workload demands. With this new capability, […]
AWS – NICE DCV releases version 2021.0 with Webcam redirection and printer redirection
NICE DCV is a high performance remote display protocol that helps users to securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
AWS Console Mobile Application users can now use Asia Pacific (Osaka) region on the Console mobile app. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0 release is now generally available
Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0 enables Azure Device Update for IoT Hub and IoT Edge devices in a nested configuration. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL M6g and R6g instances now available in N. California, Canada, São Paulo, and London regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now supports AWS Graviton2-based (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/) database instances in the additional regions of US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (London). Graviton2 instances provide up to 35% performance improvement and up to 52% price/performance improvement over comparable current generation x86-based instances for RDS open […]
Azure – Log Analytics Windows Agent for Winter 2021 now generally available
Update to the newest Windows Agent. Now available with support fixes and a new troubleshooting tool. Read More for the details.