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AWS – AWS quadruples per-volume maximum capacity and performance on io2 volumes (in preview)
Today AWS announced availability, in preview, of io2 Block Express volumes that are designed to deliver up to 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes, while also delivering sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability. io2 Block express refers to io2 volumes running on EBS Block Express architecture. EBS Block Express is the next generation […]
GCP – Licious delivers high quality meat products to the doorstep with help from Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Bhaskar Konduru, CTO at Licious, a company that’s using technology to disrupt the traditional market for fresh meat and seafood, and delivering high quality fresh products to the doors of Indians in seven major cities. I’ve worked among some of India’s most exciting startups over the past decade, and […]
GCP – Containers – you are now covered by Security Command Center
As more containerized workloads find their way into your organization, you want to be able to detect and respond to threats to containers running in this environment. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Container Threat Detection to help you monitor and secure your container deployments in Google Cloud. Container Threat Detection is […]
GCP – Best practices to use Apache Ranger on Dataproc
Dataproc is an easy-to-use, fully managed cloud service for running managed open source, such as Apache Spark, Apache Presto, and Apache Hadoop clusters, in a simpler, more cost-efficient way. Dataproc allows you to have long-running clusters similar to always-on on-premises OSS clusters. But even better, it allows multiple smaller, customized, job-focused clusters that can be […]
AWS – Introducing new Amazon EC2 R5b instances featuring 60 Gbps of EBS Bandwidth and 260K IOPS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 R5b instances that can utilize up to 60 Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) bandwidth and 260 IOPS (I/O operations per second) for large relational database workloads. These instances offer significantly higher EBS performance across all instance sizes, ranging from 10 Gbps of EBS […]
AWS – Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Las Vegas
Today, we are announcing the availability of a new AWS Wavelength Zone on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Las Vegas. Wavelength Zones are now available in eight cities, including the seven previously announced cities of Boston, San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Washington DC, Atlanta, Dallas, and Miami. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking
Starting today, general purpose Amazon EC2 M5zn instances are available. These new instances are a high frequency, high speed and low-latency networking variant of Amazon EC2 M5 instances, powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake). M5zn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo CPU performance from Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 D3 and D3en, the next generation of dense HDD storage instances
Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 D3 and D3en instances are available. These new instances are powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake) with a sustained all core frequency up to 3.1 GHz, and offer the highest density local HDD storage in the cloud. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Amazon EC2 Mac instances for macOS
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Mac instances for macOS are generally available. Built on Apple Mac mini computers, EC2 Mac instances enable customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the AWS cloud for the first time, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers. With EC2 Mac instances, […]
Azure – Azure Sphere SDK version 20.11 is now available
The 20.11 SDK introduces the first Beta release of the azsphere command line interface (CLI) v2, which is designed to more closely match the Azure CLI in functionality and usage. Read More for the details.