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GCP – SRE Classroom: exercises for non-abstract large systems design
Have you ever tried your hand at designing a resilient distributed software system? If you have, you likely found that there are many factors that contribute to the overall reliability of a system. Different parts of the system can fail in varied and unexpected ways. Certain architecture patterns work well in some situations, but poorly […]
GCP – Cloud Run for Anthos brings eventing to your Kubernetes microservices
Building microservices on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) provides you with maximum flexibility to build your applications, while still benefiting from the scale and toolset that Google Cloud has to offer. But with great flexibility comes great responsibility. Orchestrating microservices can be difficult, requiring non-trivial implementation, customization, and maintenance of messaging systems. Cloud Run for Anthos […]
AWS – Amazon Lex now offers language support for US Spanish
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, you can build an Amazon Lex bot in US Spanish. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C5a instances now available in South America (Sao Paulo) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5a instances, featuring AMD EPYCTM 2nd generation 7002 Series processors, are available in AWS South America (Sao Paulo) region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now in preview
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server is a new deployment option that provides better control and flexibility, more options for high availability, and cost optimization controls. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Comprehend now supports Amazon Sagemaker GroundTruth training datasets for custom model training
You can now train Custom Named Entity Recognition and Custom Classification models in Amazon Comprehend using training datasets from Amazon Sagemaker GroundTruth. You can use Comprehend’s Custom Named Entity Recognition to identify terms that are specific to your industry or organization. For example, you can instantly extract product names, financial entities or any term relevant […]
AWS – Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs
With this new release of the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains, customers can use federated credentials, MFA and AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to connect their IDEs to AWS. Using AWS SSO, your organization’s users can sign in to Active Directory, a built-in AWS SSO directory, or another external identity provider (IdP) connected to AWS SSO […]
AWS – Usability Improvements for AWS Management Console now available
Today, we launched usability improvements for the AWS Management Console’s navigation header and footer. The improvements include a refreshed and responsive navigation header and footer, an easier way to add or remove services to your favorites list in the navigation header, and an increase in the number of services you see in the “Recently visited” […]
Azure – Debug API Management policies in real time
Debug API Management policies with the Visual Studio Code extension for Azure API Management Read More for the details.
Azure – Logic Apps updated with new hosting options, improved performance and developer workflows
Logic Apps is now updated with new hosting options and performance and development improvements that will enable you to build modern workflow-enabled apps. Read More for the details.