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AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Managed Disaster Recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups
Starting today Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to setup automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Enable Azure Site Recovery (ASR) while creating Azure Virtual Machines
With ASR, you can now protect your business-critical Azure virtual machines from regional outages at the time of VM creation. Read More for the details.
GCP – Browse and query Cloud Spanner databases from Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is one of the most widely-used IDEs, due in part to the variety of extensions that are available to developers. For developers who are building applications that interact with Cloud Spanner, we’re excited to announce the Google Cloud Spanner driver for the popular SQLTools extension for VS Code. The SQLTools extension works […]
GCP – Reinventing the future with a transformation cloud
Looking back on the past year, I see challenges—but also reinvention. Reinvention in how children are educated. Reinvention in how medical professionals provide care. Reinvention in how customers purchase products. This reinvention was made possible by all of the IT leaders around the world who had a vision about what could be possible with technology. […]
AWS – Use Kubernetes Pod Templates with EMR on EKS to simplify running Spark workloads and control costs
Today, we are launching EMR on EKS support for Pod Templates to make it simple to run Spark jobs on shared EKS clusters. A Pod is a group of one or more containers, with shared storage and network resources, and a specification for how to run the containers. Pod Templates are specifications which determine how […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports up to 10x faster tuning and enables exploring up to 20X more models
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning enables you to find the best version of a model by finding the optimal set of hyperparameter configuration for your dataset. Starting today, SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports running up to 100 parallel training jobs for hyperparameter tuning, which gives you a 10X increase of parallel training jobs so […]
AWS – AWS Organizations launches new console experience
AWS Organizations now offers a new console experience that provides you with a more intuitive way to manage your multi-account environment on AWS. You can now more easily navigate through your Organizational Unit hierarchy and perform AWS account management tasks in a streamlined way. The updated interface also gives you easy access to documentation, product […]
AWS – Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available
The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available. The EBS CSI driver makes it simple to configure and use block storage for applications running in both Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and self-managed Kubernetes clusters running on AWS using standard Kubernetes interfaces. Read More for the details.
AWS – Prepare data for machine learning faster and easier on Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler with support for more data sources and distributed jobs
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.15.15
You can now launch Apache ActiveMQ 5.15.15 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to ActiveMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.15.14. Read More for the details.