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AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you automatically update the instances in your Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) to release new application versions or make infrastructure changes. Traditionally, customers had to write custom scripts and build systems to update ASG configurations with new AMIs. With the new Instance Refresh feature, customers can now trigger configuration updates […]
Azure – Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in select regions
Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in the West US 2, East US, South Central US, US Gov Virginia, and US Gov Arizona regions Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS AppConfig announces the launch of hosted configurations
AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig hosted configurations, a new feature that simplifies on-boarding to AWS AppConfig to enable customers to deploy configurations in seconds. AWS AppConfig makes it easy for AWS customers to quickly roll out application configurations across applications hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, containers, AWS Lambda, mobile […]
AWS – Sellers, Consulting Partners, and Data Providers from UAE, Bahrain, Norway, and Switzerland Now Available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), consulting partners, and data providers from United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Norway, and Switzerland are now eligible to sell software and data products in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange. These offerings add to the global catalog of 7,000+ software and data products from 1,500+ ISVs and data providers in AWS […]
AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now supports CloudFormation templates for automating SSL/TLS certificate issuance for DNS-validated certificates with domains managed in Route 53, issuance of private certificates from an ACM Private Certificate Authority, and configuration of certificate transparency (CT) logging. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) capacity providers now support delete functionality. You can delete capacity providers once they are no longer in use using either the AWS Management Console or the new DeleteCapacityProvider API. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available
AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (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 the details.
AWS – AWS DataSync now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions
You can now use AWS DataSync to transfer data into and out of 2 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town). Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing Spark 3 and Hadoop 3 on Dataproc image version 2.0
Dataproc makes open source data and analytics processing fast, easy, and more secure in the cloud. Dataproc provides fully configured autoscaling clusters in around 90 seconds on custom machine types. This makes Dataproc an ideal way to experiment with and test the latest functionality from the open source ecosystem. Dataproc provides image versions that align […]
GCP – What a trip! Measuring network latency in the cloud
A common question for cloud architects is “Just how quickly can we exchange a request and a response between two endpoints?” There are several tools for measuring round-trip network latency, namely ping, iperf, and netperf, but because they’re not all implemented and configured the same, different tools can return different results. And in most cases, […]