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GCP – Automate Application Migration with GKE Autopilot and Migrate for GKE
Many developers today are choosing to develop and deploy new greenfield applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). And it’s easy to understand why—GKE offers a great combination of scalability, security, and ease of use. However, what might surprise a lot of people is thatGKE is also often chosen to run existing brownfield workloads. For instance, […]
Azure – General Availability: Azure Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure China cloud
Get started today with Azure Virtual Desktop in Azure China cloud. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Stream Analytics: 3 new regions are now generally available
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build reports, or trigger alerts and actions. The service is now available in 3 new regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Dataset-as-a-Source
Amazon QuickSight announced Dataset-as-a-Source, a new feature that saves customers time and improves data governance. Dataset-as-a-Source allows users to create a new dataset using one or more existing datasets as input, and combine it with brand new data sources, such as other databases, CSV files, and apps like Twitter. Curators can create central datasets that […]
AWS – Amazon MSK now supports running multiple authentication modes and updates to TLS encryption settings
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports the simultaneous use of multiple authentication modes and updates to encryption-in-transit settings for Amazon MSK clusters. These features allow you to migrate your clients seamlessly from one authentication mode to another and update encryption settings to match those changes. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud highlighted at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
Startups need to move quickly and focus their limited resources on areas where they can differentiate. If infrastructure isn’t your differentiator, don’t put a lot of energy into your infrastructure when someone else can do it for you. What’s more, time-to-market matters to startups more now than ever. Successful early stage companies know this, and […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch request metrics for Amazon S3 Access Points now available
Amazon S3 Access Points customers can now configure Amazon CloudWatch request metrics. With this launch, S3 request metrics can now be generated for all objects in a bucket, or you can generate metrics for specific combinations of prefix, object tags, or access points. With S3 Access Points, you can easily build the right access controls […]
GCP – Recommendations AI data ingestion
In our previous post, we presented a high-level picture of Recommendations AI, showing how the product is typically used. In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into the first step of getting started, which is data ingestion. This post will answer all your questions on getting your data into Recommendations AI so you can […]
AWS – AWS RoboMaker now supports container images in simulation
AWS RoboMaker, a service that allows customers to simulate robotics applications at cloud scale, now supports container images. This feature enables customers to use the container tools that they are already familiar with to build and package their code for running simulations in RoboMaker. Read More for the details.
GCP – Optimizing Waze ad delivery using TensorFlow over Vertex AI
Waze Ads Waze is the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app. As part of its offering, it lets advertisers put their businesses on the Waze map. By doing so, ads on Waze will reach consumers at key moments of their journey. Goals for advertising on Waze include getting customers to business locations, building brand […]