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Azure – Azure Container Registry now available in Norway East region
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in Norway East region. Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Automation is now available in UK West
Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB M6g and R6g instances now available in N. California, Canada, São Paulo, and London regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based database instances in the additional regions of US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (London). Graviton2 instances provide up to 35% performance improvement and up to 52% price/performance improvement over comparable current generation x86-based instances for RDS open source […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Spectrum launches in four additional AWS Regions
Amazon Redshift Spectrum is now available in four additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), and AWS GovCloud (US-East). Read More for the details.
AWS – Leverage state of the art Natural Language Processing with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker
Today we are announcing new Hugging Face integrations with Amazon SageMaker to help data scientists develop, train, and tune state-of-the-art natural language (NLP) models more quickly and easily. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, R5dn instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, these instances make 100 Gbps networking available to network-bound workloads, and Amazon Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for low latency networking HPC/ML workloads. Customers can take advantage of this improved network performance to […]
Azure – General availability: Publishing VM Images from Shared Image Gallery to Azure Marketplace
ISVs can capture their images directly into Shared Image Gallery and select those images for publishing with an inline experience in Partner Center in just two steps. Read More for the details.
GCP – Getting Compute Engine resources for batch processing just got easier
If you need to run an embarrassingly parallel batch processing workload, it can be tricky to decide how many instances to create in each zone while accounting for available resources, quota limits and your reservations. We are excited to announce a new method of obtaining Compute Engine instances for batch processing that accounts for availability […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Endpoints For Amazon EC2 Are Now Available In Asia Pacific (Osaka)
Amazon EC2 is now available through VPC endpoints in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region, allowing you to access Amazon EC2 from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without traversing the internet. Read More for the details.
GCP – Safeguarding time and attention with Google Workspace and Gmail
As the pandemic forced millions of people to work from home, many of us found ourselves spending more time in video meetings and in our inboxes as a way to bridge the distance from our colleagues. When the workplace became the living room or the makeshift home office, and as professional and personal responsibilities sometimes […]