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Azure – Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines Guest Health is in public preview
Announcing the Public Preview of the Guest Health feature of Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines, that monitors the health of your virtual machines and fires an alert when any of the parameters being monitored are outside the acceptable range. Read More for the details.
GCP – How APIs expand reach and drive ROI for content producers
Over the course of just a few years, the ways in which we consume content have changed dramatically. In order to compete in this new landscape and to adapt to the technological change that underpins it, media studios and other content producers should consider providing relatively open access to their proprietary content. This necessitates a […]
GCP – Filestore Backups eases migration of file-based apps to cloud
When you’re considering migrating mission-critical workloads to the cloud, it’s important to make it as easy as possible. We think maintaining your established, on-prem best practices can make a cloud migration a lot easier. Using established best practices reduces the need to rearchitect applications, and also helps ensure continuity as you migrate your infrastructure. We’re […]
AWS – AWS ParallelCluster 2.10
AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports SQL-level Metrics on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports SQL-level metrics on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL so you can identify high-frequency, long-running, and stuck SQL queries in seconds. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 Storage Lens delivers organization-wide visibility into object storage usage and activity trends
Amazon S3 Storage Lens delivers organization-wide visibility into your object storage usage and activity trends, and makes actionable recommendations to improve cost-efficiency and apply data protection best practices. S3 Storage Lens is the first cloud storage analytics solution to provide a single view of object storage usage and activity across tens to hundreds of accounts […]
AWS – Now customize the idle session timeout value and stream session logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for Session Manager
Session Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now offers customers greater control over howlong sessions remain idle before being terminated automatically. This feature can help you meetcompliance requirements, such as PCI Requirement 8.1.8, which requires that users reauthenticate if a session is idle for more than 15 minutes. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports C5, R5 and T3 instance types
Starting today, you can launch R5, C5, and T3 instance types when using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate your databases. You can easily scale up to these new instance classes by modifying your existing replication instance through the AWS DMS, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports public switched telephone network (PSTN) audio
The Amazon Chime SDK is a service that makes it easy for developers to add real-time audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities to their applications. Starting today, the service connects to the global phone network so that attendees can dial into an Amazon Chime SDK meeting using a telephone. The feature also lets you programmatically […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation change sets now support nested stacks
AWS CloudFormation is extending change sets to support applications modeled with nested stacks, enhancing the predictability of update operations. With this launch, you can now preview the changes to your application and infrastructure resources across the entire nested stack hierarchy and proceed with the update only when you confirm that all the changes are as […]