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AWS – Amazon Genomics CLI is now Generally Available
Today, we announced the general availability of Amazon Genomics CLI, an open-source tool for genomics and life science customers to process genomics data at petabyte scale on AWS. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud Vertex AI + Battlesnake: Using practical reinforcement learning to defeat your friends
How do you like to learn a new skill? Read books? Take a course? Try to build something? We are a small group of Customer Engineers who, with no formal background in machine learning, who decided to learn about reinforcement learning by entering Battlesnake, an online survival game where our trained agent would cut its […]
Azure – Azure Site Recovery: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or later by November 15, 2021 – for improved security
Azure Site Recovery: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or later by November 15, 2021 for improved security of replication data. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS WAF Security Automations v3.2
The AWS Solutions team recently updated AWS WAF Security Automations, a solution that automatically deploys a set of AWS WAF (web application firewall) rules that filter common web-based attacks. Users can select from preconfigured protective features that define the rules included in an AWS WAF web access control list (web ACL). Once deployed, AWS WAF […]
AWS – Now auto-terminate idle EMR clusters to lower cost
Amazon EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR now supports auto-terminating idle EMR clusters, a new feature that automatically terminates your EMR […]
GCP – Manage Capacity with Pub/Sub Lite Reservations. It’s easier and cheaper.
If you need inexpensive managed messaging for streaming analytics, Pub/Sub Lite was made for you. Lite can be as much as 10 times cheaper than Pub/Sub. But, until now, the low price came with a lot more work. You had to manage the read and write throughput capacity of each partition of every topic. Have […]
GCP – Deploy Anthos on GKE with Terraform Part 2: Guardrails via Policy Controller
This is the second part of a series of articles on using Anthos Config Management (ACM) with Terraform. In the previous article and example, we explained how to use Terraform to create a cluster and manage its configuration from Git via Config Sync. This article will build on that to add guardrails for the cluster […]
GCP – Tales from the (en)crypt: What’s new for Cloud Storage security
Encryption is critical for securing sensitive data while it is stored and transits the cloud. Today, Cloud Storage encrypts data server-side with standard Google-managed encryption keys by default, and can also encrypt data with customer-managed encryption keys that are stored and managed by Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS). While customers have been able to […]
AWS – AWS Backup simplifies recovery point deletions
AWS Backup now makes it easier to delete recovery points that customers no longer need. Customers can use the new asynchronous delete operation from the console, CLI or APIs, to clean up existing recovery points in bulk and manage their backups more cost-effectively. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 21.1
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 21.1 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 12.1, 12.2 and 19c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 21.1, please refer to Oracle’s blog post. Read More for the […]