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AWS – Introducing Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports single Availability Zone (AZ) storage classes (One Zone), reducing storage costs by 47% compared to Amazon EFS Standard storage classes, while maintaining the EFS capabilities that customers love. With this launch, you can achieve an effective storage price of $0.043/GB-month.[1] Read More for the details.
Azure – New Brazil Southeast region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now available for Brazil South customers requiring scenario-based in-country disaster recovery. Read More for the details.
AWS – CloudEndure Migration and CloudEndure Disaster Recovery now support EBS Local Snapshots on AWS Outposts
CloudEndure Migration and CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, services offered by AWS, now allow you to migrate, replicate, and recover applications from any source directly into AWS Outposts or between AWS Outposts devices, leading to lower latencies, better performance, and reduced costs. Previously, replicated data had to be transferred to and stored in a public AWS Region […]
Azure – Token lifecycle management is now in private preview
With this sprint update, we’re announcing Azure DevOps REST API support for personal access tokens that’s available now in private preview. Read More for the details.
GCP – Using Cloud Build to keep Airflow Operators up-to-date in your Composer environment
Before 2020, keeping your Airflow operators up to date meant either upgrading to the most recent version of Airflow, or bringing newer versions of the operators in as plugins. Now (if you’re using Airflow 1.10.6 or later), the latest versions of operators are packaged as PyPI modules that can be installed in your Airflow environment! […]
GCP – Hackathons aren’t just for programmers anymore
Companies and organizations all over the world hold hackathons to help their software developers sharpen skills, improve collaboration, cultivate creativity, and experiment with new ideas. But what about non-technical employees? Is coding ability a prerequisite to participating in hackathons and creating technical solutions? Thanks to no-code application development, the answer is no. Whereas non-technical employees […]
AWS – Introducing a new API allowing you to stop in-progress workflows in Amazon Forecast
Amazon Forecast uses machine learning (ML) to generate more accurate demand forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Forecast brings the same technology used at Amazon.com to developers as a fully managed service, removing the need to manage resources or rebuild your systems. Read More for the details.
GCP – Building the future of business computing: 10 years of Chrome OS
When building Chrome OS, we knew computing was complicated, and it was even more complex for business owners and IT. Slow boot times, intrusive updates, cumbersome on-premise management, and additional third-party security add-ons decreased tech infrastructure ROI and took valuable IT time away from more strategic initiatives. We set out to engineer a fast, secure, […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew enhances its data quality dashboard with a visual comparison matrix
When you generate data quality profiles on your datasets, DataBrew now publishes a visual dashboard on the AWS Glue DataBrew console with 40+ statistics and visualizations listed in a tabular format for easy comparison. Understanding data quality is key to the success of your analytics and machine learning projects. With this new capability in DataBrew, […]
Azure – Azure Routing Preference is now generally available
Choice matters when it comes to cloud. Routing preference enables network service tiers for internet bound traffic, letting you to optimize for performance or cost. Read More for the details.