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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.
Azure – New feature in public preview for intelligent ingestion from Event Hubs source
New ingestion feature intelligently suggests relevant table schema and mapping definitions to Event Hubs source Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Site Recovery update rollup 52 – November 2020
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides provides fixes, updated Linux support for disaster recovery of Azure VMs, VMware VMs, and physical servers, and download links for Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.
GCP – Advancing healthcare with the Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program
The 21st Century Cures Act, a United States law enacted at the end of 2016, mandates patient data interoperability for payers, providers, and healthcare organizations. As we approach rolling implementation deadlines, healthcare organizations are wrestling with how to liberate data from siloed systems—not only to give patients more granular control of their data, but also […]
GCP – Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems names Google a Leader
We’re announcing today that Google has been named a Leader in the first-ever Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS), 2020. We believe this recognition is due to Google Cloud’s data analytics and databases vision and strategy, and is echoed by the growth in customers across all industries and geographies selecting Google Cloud […]