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AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre now enables you to grow storage on your file systems with the click of a button
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance shared storage, now enables you to increase the storage capacity of your file systems with the click of a button, providing you the flexibility to easily respond to your evolving storage needs by increasing file system size in a matter of minutes. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports batch windows of up to 5 minutes for functions with Amazon SQS as an event source
AWS Lambda now allows customers using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as an event source to define a wait period, called MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds, to allow messages to accumulate in their SQS queue before invoking a Lambda function. In addition to Batch Size, this is a second option to send records in batches, to reduce the number of […]
AWS – AWS Glue now supports workload partitioning to further improve the reliability of Spark applications
Errors in Spark applications commonly arise from inefficient Spark scripts, distributed in-memory execution of large-scale transformations, and dataset abnormalities. AWS Glue workload partitioning is the newest offering from AWS Glue to address these issues and improve the reliability of Spark applications and consistency of run-time. Workload partitioning enables you to specify how much data to […]
Azure – More IOPS at no additional cost for Azure Files premium tier
All premium shares get additional baseline and burst input/output per second (IOPS) at zero cost, providing better performance and lower cost of deployment. Read More for the details.
GCP – Five Behaviours for Digital Diffusion in EMEA – Google Cloud Public Sector Summit
This year presented many unforeseen and unthinkable global challenges. From shifting to remote work and providing essential services to affected communities to working tirelessly to keep the economy afloat. Many of us often wished there was a magic formula to help smooth these transitions. And while a magic formula might not exist, many governments across […]
Azure – Unified Connection Monitor in Network Watcher is now generally available
Connection monitor provides unified end-to-end connection monitoring capabilities for hybrid and Azure deployments. It brings together the best of Network Performance Monitor and Connection Monitor (classic). Read More for the details.
GCP – Serverless load balancing with Terraform: The hard way
Earlier this year, we announced Cloud Load Balancer support for Cloud Run. You might wonder, aren’t Cloud Run services already load-balanced? Yes, each *.run.app endpoint load balances traffic between an autoscaling set of containers. However, with the Cloud Balancing integration for serverless platforms, you can now fine tune lower levels of your networking stack. In […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the Business Intelligence Suite on SQL Server 2019
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite on SQL Server 2019. You can now run SQL Server Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services on DB instances using the latest major version. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Customers can now deploy compute-intensive applications such as machine learning inferencing, multimedia processing, scientific simulations, HPC, and financial modeling that leverage Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) to meet their performance requirements on AWS Lambda. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) AWS Region. This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations in the Middle East where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for customers to use Amazon SES. Read More for the details.