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Azure – Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1: Account creation will be blocked for new customers starting July 5, 2021
Take advantage of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 for all of your analytic needs after July 5, 2021. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports additional memory configurations of the r5 instance class
Starting today, you can launch additional configurations of the R5 instance class when using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle. Featuring up to 4x the RAM per vCPU of existing R5 instance classes, the new configurations are available in the following AWS Regions: North America US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West […]
AWS – AWS Client VPN launches desktop client for Linux
AWS Client VPN now supports SAML based federated authentication for opening a VPN connection from a Linux Desktop Operating system (Ubuntu 64bit 18.04 and 20.04 LTS). The Linux Desktop client has feature parity with the existing Windows and macOS Desktop clients. AWS Client VPN Desktop Clients are available free of charge, and can be downloaded […]
AWS – AWS Outposts is now supported in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS Outposts is now supported in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any customer datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility. Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, […]
GCP – Build a platform with KRM: Part 3 – Simplifying Kubernetes app development
This is part 3 in a multi-part series about the Kubernetes Resource Model. See parts 1 and 2 to learn more. In the last post, we explored how Kubernetes and its declarative resource model can provide a solid platform foundation. But while the Kubernetes Resource Model is powerful, it can also be overwhelming to learn: […]
AWS – Amazon Translate now supports XML Localization Interchange File Format – XLIFF documents
Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation in 71 languages and variants –now supports translation of XML Localization Interchange File Format – XLIFF documents. Starting today, customers can submit their XLIFF documents for batch processing by Amazon Translate. Amazon Translate only translates sections where […]
Azure – Azure Blob storage—NFS 3.0 protocol support generally available
Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports NFS 3.0 protocol over object storage natively (no gateway or data copying required), with object storage economics. With multi-protocol support, customers can run their applications on a single storage platform with no application rewrites necessary, therefore eliminating data silos. Read More for the details.
AWS – Updated classroom course and new digital course: AWS Technical Essentials
AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the updated one-day classroom course and new digital course, AWS Technical Essentials. These courses are ideal for technical learners who need to understand fundamental AWS Cloud concepts to make informed decisions about IT solutions based on business requirements. Read More for the details.
GCP – Boosting collaboration in Google Workspace with Adobe Creative Cloud
Every day, individual people and creative teams combine Google Workspace with Adobe Creative Cloud to bring their best ideas to life and delight their customers or friends, across photography, design, video, 3D design, and more. In fact, Adobe’s add-on for Google Workspace has had over a million installs and counting. By partnering with Adobe, we’re […]
GCP – Orchestrate Data Pipelines using Workflows
When working on data engineering problems, the ability to manage execution control, access operational information such as historical runs & logs, and restart jobs from the point of failure are critical aspects of the overall pipeline development. One of the most common ways to achieve this in Google Cloud is using Cloud Composer (based on […]