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GCP – Congrats, you bought Anthos! Now what?
What’s the first thing you do when you get something new? It depends, right? When I bought a new mobile phone, I jumped in to reload my favorite apps and explore the new features. After I got a kitchen remodeled, I looked around and wondered what to do next. Organize things? Cook something? Learn to […]
GCP – Innovating and experimenting in EMEA’s Public Sector: Lessons from 2020–2021
By now, we’ve answered the question of whether public sector agencies can innovate, transform, and operate with a remote workforce. They can do so quite well. Government organisations worldwide have been using technology to manage remote work challenges and continue to provide services to constituents. In my role as a Customer Engineer for Google Cloud […]
AWS – Introducing Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager
Today, AWS announces Incident Manager, a new capability of AWS Systems Manager that enables faster resolution of critical application availability and performance issues. Incident Manager helps you prepare for incidents with automated response plans that bring the right people and information together. The Incident Manager console provides a unified user interface to view operational data […]
AWS – Migration Evaluator announces a faster way to project AWS cloud costs with Quick Insights
Building a business case for the cloud can be a time-consuming process on your own. With Migration Evaluator, organizations can accelerate their evaluation and decision-making for migration to AWS. Quick Insights – a new capability of Migration Evaluator, provides customers with a one-page summary of their projected AWS costs based on measured on-premises provisioning and […]
GCP – Scheduling Cloud SQL exports using Cloud Functions and Cloud Scheduler
Cloud SQL offers an easy way to perform a database export for any of your databases right from the Cloud Console. Database export files are saved to Google Cloud Storage and can be used via the Cloud SQL import process to be recreated as new databases. Creating a one-time export file is good but setting […]
AWS – Amazon Athena drivers now support Azure AD and PingFederate authentication
With the latest release of JDBC and ODBC drivers for Amazon Athena, you can use Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory (AD) or Ping Identity’s PingFederate for authentication with compatible business intelligence, SQL, or embedded analytics applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter for distributed training
Amazon SageMaker now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for training machine learning models. EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale on AWS. EFA can significantly speed up distributed training on SageMaker at no additional cost. For example, we trained […]
AWS – Support for Kantar watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports Kantar SNAP watermarking for mezzanine and OTT content delivery. With this feature, audio streams processed by MediaConvert can now be watermarked with unique identifiers that allow for audience measurement across a variety of playback and consumption methods. When enabled, the unique identifier and Kantar account details are transmitted to Kantar […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Managed Disaster Recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups
Starting today Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to setup automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Enable Azure Site Recovery (ASR) while creating Azure Virtual Machines
With ASR, you can now protect your business-critical Azure virtual machines from regional outages at the time of VM creation. Read More for the details.