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GCP – The top 5 launches of 2021 (so far)
And just like that, seven months are under our belts. I’m guessing I’m not the only one who feels like 2021 is flying by. Even so, much has already happened at Google Cloud. We launched more products and features than I can count, hosted our first virtual Google I/O, and organized Cloud OnAir events each […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6i instances are now available in 2 additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6i instances are available in additional AWS Regions US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage and network resources, M6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.2 and 4.4 as sources
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) expands functionality by adding support for MongoDB 4.2 and 4.4 as a source. Using AWS DMS, you can now migrate data live from MongoDB 4.2 and 4.4 clusters to any AWS DMS supported targets including Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with minimal downtime. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports parallel threads when using Redshift as a target during full load
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) expands its functionality by supporting parallel threads when using Redshift as a target during full load. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. By taking advantage of […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports Redis as a target
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) expands functionality by adding support for Redis and Amazon ElastiCache for Redis as a target. Redis is a fast, open-source, in-memory key-value data store for use as a database, cache, message broker, and queue. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis combines the speed, simplicity, and versatility of open-source Redis with manageability, security, […]
Azure – Windows 11 public preview is now available on Azure Virtual Desktop
You can now run Windows 11 preview images on Azure Virtual Desktop. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Greengrass v2.4 release includes new features for provisioning large device fleets and managing device software resources
AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) edge runtime and cloud service that helps customers build, deploy, and manage device software. Our version 2.4 release includes two new sets of features that simplify the provisioning of large fleets of IoT devices and allow fine-grained control of IoT device system resources from the cloud: […]
AWS – Send data from SAP applications to AWS services using Amazon Appflow
You can now send data from SAP ERP applications (ECC, BW, BW4/HANA and S/4HANA) to AWS services in just a few clicks using Amazon AppFlow and SAP Operational data provisioning (ODP) framework. Read More for the details.
GCP – One click deploy Triton Inference Server in Google Kubernetes Engine
tl;dr: We introduce the One-Click Triton Inference Server in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Marketplace solution (solution, readme) to help jumpstart NVIDIA GPU-enabled ML inference projects. Deep Learning research in the past decade has provided a number of exciting and useful models for a variety of different use cases. Less than 10 years ago, AlexNet was […]
GCP – Handling duplicate data in streaming pipelines using Dataflow and Pub/Sub
Purpose Processing streaming data to extract insights and powering real time applications is becoming more and more critical. Google Cloud Dataflow and Pub/Sub provides a highly scalable, reliable and mature streaming analytics platform to run mission critical pipelines. One very common challenge that developers often face when designing such pipelines is how to handle duplicate […]
