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GCP – Get to know Workflows, Google Cloud’s serverless orchestration engine
Whether your company is processing e-commerce transactions, producing goods or delivering IT services, you need to manage the flow of work across a variety of systems. And while it’s possible to manage those workflows manually or with general-purpose tools, doing so is much easier with a purpose-built product. Google Cloud has two workflow tools in […]
GCP – Getting higher MPI performance for HPC applications on Google Cloud
Most High Performance Computing (HPC) applications such as large-scale engineering simulations, molecular dynamics, and genomics, run on supercomputers or HPC clusters on-premises. Cloud is emerging as a great option for these workloads due to its elasticity, pay per use, and the lower associated maintenance cost. Reducing Message Passing Interface (MPI) latency is one critical element […]
Azure – IoT Hub private link now works with the built-in Event Hub compatible endpoint
Starting December 3, all new IoT Hub private links will support connectivity to the built-in Event Hub compatible endpoint. Create new private links to use this feature. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Chat now supports Apple Business Chat (Preview)
With the Amazon Connect Chat integration for Apple Business Chat, you can now provide convenient and familiar customer service directly through the Apple Messages app. Anytime an iPhone user clicks to call your registered phone number, Apple provides the option to chat, reducing contact center costs and enabling customers to respond at their own pace. […]
GCP – A new Terraform module for serverless load balancing
Today we are announcing a new Terraform module for provisioning load balancers optimized for serverless applications. With this Terraform module, you can complete your load balancing task with a single module, instead of configuring many underlying network resources yourself in Terraform. In an earlier article, we showed you how to build a Cloud HTTPS Load […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights (General Availability)
Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights enables you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions. You have access to automated dashboards summarizing the performance and health of your Lambda functions that provide visibility into issues such as memory leaks or performance changes caused by new function versions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Serverless Batch Scheduling with AWS Batch and AWS Fargate
Today AWS Batch introduced the ability for customers to specify AWS Fargate as a compute resource for their AWS Batch jobs. With AWS Batch support for AWS Fargate, customers now have a way to run jobs on serverless compute resources, fully managed from job submission to completion. Now, you only need to submit your analytics, […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Amazon EBS volume recommendations
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports IOPS and throughput-based EBS volume recommendations. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 with PostgreSQL compatibility now available in eight additional regions
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and US West (N. California) regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Transforming Benefits Delivery to Utah Residents using the Cloud
Roughly one of every ten individuals in Utah received benefits from or engaged with a social service program delivered by their state government in recent years. As a result, social services programs comprise the largest share of Utah’s budget, this year amounting to more than $8 billion. This funding covers programs across state government spanning […]