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AWS – AWS Launch Wizard for SAP supports integration with Amazon Route53 for domain naming and routing outbound internet connections via your own Proxy Servers
AWS Launch Wizard for SAP is now integrated with Amazon Route53 as the Domain name system. Starting today, you can choose a Route53 hosted zone as the domain name system for SAP systems deployed with AWS Launch Wizard. Launch Wizard creates DNS records in the chosen Route53 hosted zone eliminating the need to maintain /etc/hosts […]
AWS – AWS Managed Services now supports Oracle Linux 7.5 and later minor versions
AWS Managed Services (AMS) now supports launching Amazon EC2 instances of Oracle Linux 7.5 and later minor versions. Enterprises can now migrate their workloads using Oracle Linux 7.5 into AMS using workload ingest process or by creating new EC2 instances. AMS performs patching, monitoring, back-up management, log aggregation, security management, incident management, and problem management […]
GCP – AutoML Tables: end-to-end workflows on AI Platform Pipelines
AutoML Tables lets you automatically build, analyze, and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models using your own structured data. It’s useful for a wide range of machine learning tasks, such as asset valuations, fraud detection, credit risk analysis, customer retention prediction, analyzing item layouts in stores, solving comment section spam problems, quickly categorizing audio content, predicting […]
GCP – Enabling hybrid deployments with Cloud CDN and Load Balancing
Like many Google Cloud customers, you probably have content, workloads or services that are on-prem or in other clouds. At the same time, you want the benefit of high availability, low latency, and convenience of a single anycast virtual IP address that HTTP(S) Load Balancing and Cloud CDN provide. To enable these hybrid architectures, we’re […]
GCP – Setting SLOs: a step-by-step guide
Are you responsible for a customer-facing service? If you are, you know that when that service is unavailable, it can impact your revenue. A lengthy outage could drive your customers to competitors. How do you know if your customers are generally happy with your service? If you follow site reliability engineering (SRE) principles, you can […]
GCP – Setting SLOs: observability using custom metrics
If you’ve embarked on your site reliability engineering (SRE) journey, you’ve likely started using service-level objectives (SLOs) to bring customer-focused metrics into your monitoring, perhaps even utilizing Service Monitoring as discussed in “Setting SLOs: a step-by-step guide.” Once you’re able to decrease your alert volume, your oncallers are experiencing less operational overhead and are focused […]
AWS – Easily manage your content policies for AI services with AWS Organizations
You can now use AWS Organizations to manage the use of your content by some AWS machine learning services. Certain services (Amazon CodeGuru Profiler, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Textract, Amazon Transcribe, and Amazon Translate) may use content to improve the service. Previously, you could opt out of this use by […]
Azure – .NET Core support for Azure Analysis Services client libraries is in preview
In response to customer feedback, .NET Core support for Azure Analysis Services client libraries is now available in preview. Start building .NET Core applications for modern cross-platform and cloud-oriented environments that target Analysis Services and Microsoft Power BI. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Private Link support for Azure Automation is now available in preview
You can now use Azure Private Link to securely connect virtual networks to Azure Automation using private endpoints (in preview). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain)
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager is available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain), extending the total to 18 AWS Regions and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations. Read More for the details.