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AWS – Updated classroom course: Migrating to AWS
We are excited to announce the launch of our updated, three-day classroom training course, Migrating to AWS. This course helps you to build skills to migrate with confidence to the AWS Cloud to achieve business outcomes, innovate, and advance your professional future. Migrating to AWS is ideal for solution architects, software engineers, IT project managers, […]
AWS – Amazon Braket introduces quantum circuit noise simulator, DM1
Amazon Braket now offers a fully managed, density matrix simulator, DM1, to simulate quantum circuits with noise. DM1 helps you investigate the effects of realistic noise on your quantum algorithms to inform error mitigation strategies to get more accurate results from today’s quantum computing devices. With DM1, you can simulate circuits with up to 17 […]
AWS – AWS Data Exchange now supports custom payment schedules for private offers
Data subscribers on AWS Data Exchange can now pay for their data products in installments with custom payment schedules created by their data provider. Before this launch, subscribers paid the total price of their private offer at the start of the subscription. With the introduction of payment schedules, providers can now create private offers for […]
GCP – 5 tips to maximize the Kubernetes developer experience with Cloud Code
Starting a new project that deploys to Kubernetes can be a time consuming process. It’s easy to get caught up with configuring your infrastructure instead of actually writing your application’s business logic. Developer tools and practices that help streamline Kubernetes workflows, while keeping you focused on code, are key to driving your productivity. Here are […]
GCP – 3x Dataflow Throughput with Auto Sharding for BigQuery
Many of you rely on Dataflow to build and operate mission critical streaming analytics pipelines. A key goal for us, the Dataflow team, is to make the technology work for users rather than the other way around. Autotuning, as a fundamental value proposition Dataflow offers, is a key part of making that goal a reality […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations
AWS Compute Optimizer is a service that recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics. Today, Compute Optimizer is launching several updates to its EC2 instance type recommendations. Through these updates, Compute Optimizer has improved recommendation quality, doubled the number of […]
AWS – AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations
Starting today, you can create and manage reserved capacity on Amazon EC2 instances on your Outposts. You can also share the Capacity Reservations on Outposts with other AWS accounts within your organization. With Capacity Reservations on Outposts, you can ensure that you always have access to EC2 capacity when you need it, for as long […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
You can now use Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) while creating clusters in Amazon EMR. When rotating a long running cluster, you might have strict requirements on the instance types and Availability Zones for the new instances you provision. Using Capacity Reservations, you can get capacity assurance to complete the cluster rotation without interruptions. […]
GCP – Google Cloud launches from Google I/O 2021
And that’s a wrap for Google I/O 2021! Its virtual nature this year surely didn’t stop its viral nature, as we saw over 215,000 registrants, over 235 sessions, 186,565 badges earned, and dozens of workshops and AMAs. Viewers from around the world once again tuned in to learn about the latest launches from Google, including […]
AWS – Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.28 is Now Available
Amazon Lumberyard 1.28 Beta is now available for download, bringing you a range of updates including updated Twitch Gem, an improved setup and installation experience, plus various smaller improvements and over 40 bug fixes. Read More for the details.