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AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Confluence Data Center Implementation
Confluence Data Center Implementation is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Cprime, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Confluence Data Center Implementation delivers the Confluence Data Center on AWS Quick Start giving you high availability, performance at scale, and disaster recovery for uninterrupted access to Confluence for all your teams. Customers […]
GCP – Driving change: How Geotab is modernizing applications with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Google Cloud is an “ideal platform” for running and modernizing applications, according to a recent Infobrief by IDC. Today, we hear from Patrick McClafferty, Associate Vice President, DevOps at Geotab, a leading provider of fleet management hardware and software. Read on to hear how the company is keeping ahead of change and increased […]
GCP – Re-imagine your future workspace with Google Meet Series One hardware
For more than a decade, G Suite has been on a journey to help our customers and users transform how they communicate and collaborate. We’ve invested in making Google Meet a secure and reliable video conferencing solution, and have accelerated development of critical features for customers, including offering premium features for free at the start […]
AWS – Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, available with a free trial
Starting today, the latest generation of burstable, general purpose Amazon EC2 T4g instances are available. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions adds support for AWS X-Ray
AWS Step Functions now supports tracing end-to-end workflows with AWS X-Ray, giving you full visibility across state machine executions and making it easier to analyze and debug your distributed applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports new data formats for ingesting files into Amazon S3
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, now offers customers the flexibility to choose json, comma-separated values (CSV), or parquet as the file format when transferring data from a source application to Amazon S3. This feature is supported for all source […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards now supports sharing
You can now share your Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards with users who do not have direct access to your AWS account. Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards enable you to create re-usable graphs of data from your AWS resources and custom metrics and logs, so that you can quickly monitor operational status and identify issues at a glance. With […]
Azure – Azure IoT Central new and updated features—August 2020
August updates include jobs improvements, a new file upload feature, a preview of the new data export feature, CLI updates, and documentation enhancements. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS ParallelCluster 2.9.0
AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale […]
AWS – AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports PartitionIndex, improving query performance on highly partitioned tables
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports PartitionIndex on tables. As you continually add partitions to tables, the number of partitions can grow significantly over time causing query times to increase. With PartitionIndexes, you can reduce the overall data transfers and processing, and reduce query processing time. Read More for the details.