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AWS – Detect anomalies in your metrics, and diagnose issues quickly with Amazon Lookout for Metrics – now generally available
Today Amazon Lookout for Metrics is generally available to all AWS customers. Lookout for Metrics is a machine learning (ML) service that detects anomalies or unexpected changes in your metrics, helping you proactively monitor the health of your business, diagnose issues and find opportunities quickly – with no ML experience required. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Backup is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS Backup, a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that further simplifies data protection at scale, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. With AWS Backup, you can centralize and automate data protection across AWS services and accounts, to support your regulatory compliance obligations and meet your business continuity goals. Read More for […]
AWS – Configurable Endpoints with Custom Domains now generally available for AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core now enables customers to customize the behavior of their data endpoints, making it simpler to onboard IoT applications with existing devices in the field. Customers can now configure their data endpoints with custom domain names and associated server certificates stored in AWS Certificate Manager. They can also attach custom authorizers, and create […]
GCP – Rethinking ‘rehost, replatform, rearchitect’: Cloud migration for the real world
When helping customers plan large-scale migrations of applications to the cloud, we here on the Professional Services team sometimes observe them pouring countless hours into the top-down evaluation of their application estate and categorizing them into discrete migration strategies like “rehost”, “replatform”, “refactor” and so on. It’s a well1 established2 industry3 practice4 in which the […]
AWS – AWS License Manager adds ability to set up exclusion rules for automated discovery
AWS License Manager automated discovery now allows customers to exclude instances that do not need license payment per a customer’s licensing agreements. AWS License Manager automatically tracks instances across AWS and on-premises environments based on customer defined rules. While configuring automated discovery, administrators can now define exclusion rules using custom defined tags or AWS Account […]
Azure – General availability: New VM series supported by Azure Batch
Take advantage of new VM sizes that are now available when creating your Batch pools, including the latest HPC and GPU sizes. Read More for the details.
GCP – Using BigQuery Administrator for real-time monitoring
When doing analytics at scale with BigQuery, understanding what is happening and being able to take action in real-time is critical. To that end, we are happy to announce Resource Charts for BigQuery Administrator. Resources Charts provide a native, out-of-the-box experience for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting of your BigQuery environments. Resource Charts make it easy […]
GCP – Run a transformed supply chain – see how at Google’s Digital Supply Chain summit
At the start of 2020, who knew that our supply chains would be so disrupted that we’d have to worry about having enough toilet paper or paper towels? Yet, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many disruptions and unanticipated events. On a practical level, the sudden changes in consumer behavior placed supply […]
AWS – Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions. You can now synthesize all NTTS voices in this Region, including the Newscaster and Conversational speaking styles. In addition, you […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports highly available clusters on AWS Local Zones
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports running clusters with high availability across multiple AWS Local Zones. AWS Local Zones are an extension of an AWS Region where you can run your latency-sensitive applications using AWS services in geographic proximity to end-users. Previously, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis only supported launching a cluster in a single AWS […]