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GCP – Go green: Sustainable disaster recovery using Google Cloud
At Google, we’re dedicated to building technology that helps people do more for the planet, and to fostering sustainability at scale. We continue to be the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, and in September made a commitment to operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy in all our data centers and campuses worldwide by 2030. […]
GCP – Introducing WebSockets, HTTP/2 and gRPC bidirectional streams for Cloud Run
We are excited to announce a broad set of new traffic serving capabilities for Cloud Run: end-to-end HTTP/2 connections, WebSockets support, and gRPC bidirectional streaming, completing the types of RPCs that are offered by gRPC. With these capabilities, you can deploy new kinds of applications to Cloud Run that were not previously supported, while taking […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 P4d Instances now available in the Europe (Ireland) region
Amazon EC2 P4d instances which provide the highest performance for machine learning training and high performance computing in the cloud are now available in the Europe (Ireland) region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Dynamic IP allocation and enhanced subnet support in AKS
AKS users now have more flexible network configuration options via dynamic IP allocation and support for subnets. Read More for the details.
AWS – New self-paced course about designing data lakes on edX and Coursera
AWS Training and Certification has launched a new self-paced digital course: Introduction to Designing Data Lakes in AWS. This course is for learners ranging from storage administrators to data scientists who want to explore how to create and operate a data lake in a secure and scalable way. Read More for the details.
Azure – The Azure Quota REST API to manage service limits (quotas) is now generally available
Use Azure REST Quota APIs to manage the service limits (quota) of Azure Virtual Machines (cores/vCPU) and Azure Machine Learning. Take advantage of this capability to query current usage and quotas for the supported resources and update these limits. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports additional certificate customization
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now supports additional customization options for issuing CA and end entity certificates to meet additional use cases such as identity certificates, including smart card certificates. Customers can now include certificate attributes via API calls at the time of issuance in addition to inclusion in the certificate signing […]
Azure – Azure Monitor ITSM Connector for ServiceNow ITOM with Secure Export
Introducing a public preview of Secure Export as a new version of Azure Monitor ITSM Connector, providing integration with ServiceNow ITOM. Read More for the details.
GCP – Hands-on with Anthos on bare metal
Hands on with Anthos on Bare Metal In this blog post I want to walk you through my experience of installing Anthos on bare metal (ABM) in my home lab. It covers the benefits of deploying Anthos on bare metal, necessary prerequisites, the installation process, and using Google Cloud operations capabilities to inspect the health […]
AWS – AWS SDK for Go version 2 is now generally available
Today, the AWS SDKs and Tools announces general availability of the AWS SDK for Go, version 2 (v2). This release has a modular architecture that allows customers to model service dependencies in their application and independently control service client updates using Go modules. A marked improvement in CPU and memory utilization provides more resources for […]