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AWS – FreeRTOS over-the-air update (OTA) now supports new job configurations
Starting today, FreeRTOS offers support for new over-the-air update (OTA) job configurations. Using the job rollout configuration, you can now add all of your IoT devices to the same OTA update job, and update these devices in phases. Using job abort and job execution timeout configurations, you have better control over your OTA update process. […]
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway is Now Available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) Regions
AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. As you grow the number of workloads across multiple AWS accounts, you need to scale your networks, better […]
AWS – Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
You can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to run containers on Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances. With EKS and the AWS Neuron Kubernetes device plugin, it’s easy combine multiple Inferentia devices in your cluster to run high performance and cost-effective inference workloads at scale. Read More for the details.
AWS – EMR Console Access to Persistent YARN Timeline Server and Tez UI
Amazon EMR now persists the YARN timeline server and Tez user interface (UI) along with the event and container logs outside the cluster. You can now debug and monitor your YARN applications independent of the cluster’s life cycle by logging directly into the web interfaces using the EMR console. The YARN timeline server and Tez […]
Azure – Azure Quota REST APIs to manage service limits (quota) are now available in preview
Use Azure REST Quota APIs to manage the service limits (quota) of Azure Virtual Machines (cores/vCPU) and Azure Machine Learning (in preview). Take advantage of this capability to query current usage and quotas for the supported resources and update these limits. Read More for the details.
Azure – New Azure Virtual Machines for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now in preview
The new D v4-series and E v4-series Azure Virtual Machines feature the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL custom processor, which can achieve up to 3.4 Ghz all core turbo frequency. The D v4-series and E v4-series virtual machines (VMs) don’t provide any temporary storage. The D v4-series and Ds v4-series virtual machine sizes can meet the […]
Azure – Azure Migrate—Assessment of imported servers is now generally available
Assessment of imported servers in Azure Migrate is now generally available. Read More for the details.
Azure – Private AKS clusters are now generally available in Azure Government
Azure Government customers can now use private AKS clusters for additional security. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing Local Context beta from Google Maps Platform
Local info helps people make decisions on where to visit and stay, where to shop and explore, which houses to tour, and more. For example, to evaluate whether a home is in a desirable neighborhood, home buyers often switch back and forth between multiple windows–a real estate site on one window and Google Maps on […]
GCP – Introducing new Maps customization features from Google Maps Platform
People everywhere use maps to help address a variety of needs, from navigating to a grocery store or seeing what restaurants are nearby, to finding the location of the nearest pharmacy. A basic map is helpful to users, but when you layer on additional context via style changes or points of interest (POIs), the map […]