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Azure – Directory scoped shared access signatures (SAS) generally available
Directory scoped SAS allows more granular access assignment for ADLS Gen2. Read More for the details.
AWS – S3 Object Lambda allows you to add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application
With S3 Object Lambda you can add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application. For the first time, you can use custom code to modify the data returned by standard S3 GET requests to filter rows, dynamically resize images, redact confidential data, and much […]
GCP – A2 VMs now GA—the largest GPU cloud instances with NVIDIA A100 GPUs
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of A2 VMs based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine, enabling customers around the world to run their NVIDIA CUDA-enabled machine learning (ML) and high performance computing (HPC) scale-out and scale-up workloads more efficiently and at a lower cost. Our A2 […]
GCP – Building real-time market data front-ends with websockets and Google Cloud
For those in the financial industry, the core applications for electronic trading of financial instruments have stringent tolerances around latency, throughput, and jitter. But there are also peripheral use cases that would benefit from real-time market data streams, and that are more tolerant of performance variability, such as data visualization and monitoring applications. Until recently, […]
GCP – Analyzing Python package downloads in BigQuery
The Google Cloud Public Datasets program recently published the Python Package Index (PyPI) dataset into the marketplace. PyPI is the standard repository for Python packages. If you’ve written code in Python before, you’ve probably downloaded packages from PyPI using pip or pipenv. This dataset provides statistics for all package downloads, along with metadata for each […]
Azure – Public preview: App Service Managed Certificates now supports apex domains
Create apex domains on your Linux and Windows web app at no additional cost. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS X-Ray Insights is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, AWS X-Ray launches Insights in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. X-Ray Insights helps customers proactively discover issues in applications by using anomaly detection. it also enables developers and DevOps engineers to detect anomalies in fault rate for an application and then notify their teams on these issues and why it occurred. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS announces Developer Preview release of opinionated deployment tool for .NET CLI
AWS introduces the Developer Preview of its opinionated deployment tool for .NET cloud-native applications. Using this tool, developers can now deploy their .NET applications in just a few easy steps from the .NET CLI. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces General Availability of Six New Regions for Amazon GameLift
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an update to Amazon GameLift, which increases global coverage for developers, while providing seamless, low-latency gameplay experiences for players worldwide. Trusted by some of the most successful game companies in the world like Gungho and Ubisoft, GameLift deploys, operates, and scales dedicated servers for […]
Azure – Azure Data Explorer performance update (EngineV3) is now generally available
Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) is announcing the general availability of it’s performance update (EngineV3) which provides unprecedented performance in Big Data Logs and telemetry scenarios. Read More for the details.