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Azure – Azure Maps Mobility Services Preview will be retired on 5 October 2021
Transition to Bing Maps Routes API and/or Moovit Public Transit API’s by 5 October 2021 Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. With AWS Lambda support for Amazon EFS, customers can easily share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Now Supports ml.G4dn instances for Batch Transform and Processing Jobs
Amazon SageMaker customers can now select ml.G4dn instances to run Batch Transform and Processing Jobs. Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform enables you to run predictions on datasets stored in Amazon S3. It is ideal for scenarios where you are working with large batches of data and don’t need sub-second latency. Amazon SageMaker Processing enables you to run […]
Azure – Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1: Account creation will be blocked for new customers starting July 5, 2021
Take advantage of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 for all of your analytic needs after July 5, 2021. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports additional memory configurations of the r5 instance class
Starting today, you can launch additional configurations of the R5 instance class when using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle. Featuring up to 4x the RAM per vCPU of existing R5 instance classes, the new configurations are available in the following AWS Regions: North America US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West […]
AWS – AWS Client VPN launches desktop client for Linux
AWS Client VPN now supports SAML based federated authentication for opening a VPN connection from a Linux Desktop Operating system (Ubuntu 64bit 18.04 and 20.04 LTS). The Linux Desktop client has feature parity with the existing Windows and macOS Desktop clients. AWS Client VPN Desktop Clients are available free of charge, and can be downloaded […]
AWS – AWS Outposts is now supported in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS Outposts is now supported in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any customer datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility. Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, […]
GCP – Build a platform with KRM: Part 3 – Simplifying Kubernetes app development
This is part 3 in a multi-part series about the Kubernetes Resource Model. See parts 1 and 2 to learn more. In the last post, we explored how Kubernetes and its declarative resource model can provide a solid platform foundation. But while the Kubernetes Resource Model is powerful, it can also be overwhelming to learn: […]
AWS – Amazon Translate now supports XML Localization Interchange File Format – XLIFF documents
Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation in 71 languages and variants –now supports translation of XML Localization Interchange File Format – XLIFF documents. Starting today, customers can submit their XLIFF documents for batch processing by Amazon Translate. Amazon Translate only translates sections where […]
Azure – Azure Blob storage—NFS 3.0 protocol support generally available
Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports NFS 3.0 protocol over object storage natively (no gateway or data copying required), with object storage economics. With multi-protocol support, customers can run their applications on a single storage platform with no application rewrites necessary, therefore eliminating data silos. Read More for the details.