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AWS – AWS Cost Categories now supports inherited and default values
Starting today, you can use inherited and default values with AWS Cost Categories. AWS Cost Categories enables you to define rules to categorize your costs using dimensions such as accounts, tags, services, charge types, and even other Cost Categories. With the new features, you can achieve more efficient and holistic categorization of your cost and […]
AWS – AWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQL
AWS Glue Studio now provides the option to define transforms using SQL queries, allowing you to perform aggregations, easily apply filter logic to your data, add calculated fields, and more. This feature makes it easy to seamlessly mix SQL queries with AWS Glue Studio’s visual transforms while authoring ETL jobs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in 4 additional regions
AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to Europe (Milan), Europe (Stockholm), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Inf1 instances are powered by AWS Inferentia chips, which AWS custom-designed to provide high performance and lowest cost machine learning inference in the cloud. Read More for the details.
GCP – A Google Cloud VMware Engine cheat sheet
If you have VMware workloads and you want to modernize your application to take advantage of cloud services to increase agility and reduce total cost of ownership then Google Cloud VMware Engine is the service for you! It is a managed VMware service with bare metal infrastructure that runs the VMware software stack on Google […]
GCP – High throughput VM logging and metrics agent now in Preview
Running and troubleshooting production services requires deep visibility into your applications and infrastructure. Virtual machines running on Google Compute Engine (GCE) provide some system logs and metrics without any configuration required, but capturing application and advanced system data has required the installation of both a metrics agent and a logging agent. Today, we’re happy to […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Custom Tooltips, Updates to Anomaly Detection, and More
Amazon QuickSight launches customized tooltips, which enable dashboard readers to get additional insights from visuals. Custom tooltips provide additional context to any visuals with more dimensions and metrics added beyond those already available on the visual. Dashboard authors can configure these tooltips, sort the display order, and customize field names within the tooltip. To learn […]
AWS – Amazon EFS CSI driver now supports dynamic provisioning
The Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver now supports dynamic provisioning of Kubernetes persistent volumes. Kubernetes applications requiring access to a shared file system on AWS can now have storage provisioned on demand, eliminating the need for cluster administrators to pre-provision volumes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Container Registry now available in Norway East region
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in Norway East region. Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Automation is now available in UK West
Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB M6g and R6g instances now available in N. California, Canada, São Paulo, and London regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based database instances in the additional regions of US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (London). Graviton2 instances provide up to 35% performance improvement and up to 52% price/performance improvement over comparable current generation x86-based instances for RDS open source […]