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Azure – Public Preview: Form Recognizer container support
Announcing the public preview release of Form Recognizer containers. Form Recognizer is now also available in the following docker containers – Layout, Business Card, ID Document, Receipt, Invoice and Custom containers for you to run locally. Read More for the details.
AWS – CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon ECS now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. Using Container Insights, DevOps and systems engineers can monitor, isolate, and diagnose containerized applications and microservices environments through automated dashboards. This helps you visualize the performance and health of Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate resources including […]
Azure – Virtual Machine (VM) bursting is now generally available on more VM types
Virtual Machine (VM) bursting is now available for the following virtual machines: Dsv4, Dasv4, Ddsv4, Esv4, Easv4, Edsv4, Fsv2 and B-series virtual machines. VM bursting enables customers’ workloads to handle unforeseen disk traffic spikes smoothly without the need to overprovision their virtual machine. Read More for the details.
GCP – BigQuery admin reference guide: Tables & routines
Last week in our BigQuery Reference Guide series, we spoke about the BigQuery resource hierarchy – specifically digging into project and dataset structures. This week, we’re going one level deeper and talking through some of the resources within datasets. In this post, we’ll talk through the different types of tables available inside of BigQuery, and […]
GCP – The ultimate App Engine cheat sheet
App Engine is a fully managed serverless compute option in Google Cloud that you can use to build and deploy low-latency, highly scalable applications. App Engine makes it easy to host and run your applications. It scales them from zero to planet scale without you having to manage infrastructure. App Engine is recommended for a […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3 in Hong Kong and China Regions (Beijing, Ningxia)
Amazon Redshift RA3 is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Amazon Redshift RA3 instances with managed storage allow you to scale compute and storage independently for fast query performance and lower costs and also enable you to securely and easily […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaPackage extends its metadata passthrough capabilities
AWS Elemental MediaPackage now supports timed ID3 metadata passthrough for live and VOD streams in HLS, CMAF, and DASH formats. ID3 metadata tags enable data to be embedded into video streams at specified timecodes and used by downstream systems or clients to enhance the playback experience. By dynamically adding metadata to a stream, you can […]
AWS – Amazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgrades
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) managed node groups now supports upgrading multiple nodes in parallel. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoring
AWS Glue Studio now allows you to preview your data at each step of the visual job authoring process. AWS Glue Studio automatically samples your data, then runs each transform in your job so you can test and debug your transformations without having to save or run the job. Data previews are available for each […]
Azure – Update PowerShell versions 7.0 and 7.1 to protect against a vulnerability
If you manage your Azure resources from PowerShell, update versions 7.0 and 7.1 of PowerShell as soon as possible. Read More for the details.