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Azure – Azure Object Anchors is now in private preview
Align and anchor holographic content to objects. Register to be considered for Azure Object Anchors private preview. Read More for the details.
Azure – Accelerate analytics and AI workloads with Photon powered Delta Engine on Azure Databricks
Photon powered Delta Engine is a 100% Apache Spark-compatible vectorized query engine designed to take advantage of modern CPU architecture for extremely fast parallel processing of data. Read More for the details.
Azure – High throughput output from Stream Analytics to Azure Synapse Analytics (General Availability)
With a brand new output connector to Synapse SQL Pools, Stream Analytics can now support throughput rates even higher than 200MB/sec while ensuring ultra-low latencies. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Arc enabled data services now in preview
Run Azure Arc enabled data services on premises on any infrastructure of your choice with Azure cloud benefits like elastic scale, unified management, and a cloud billing model while staying always current. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces releases self-guided workshop to deploy the End User Computing dashboard
Amazon WorkSpaces released a self-guided workshop that helps customers use AWS services to build and deploy the End User Computing dashboard. You can provide the dashboard to your help desk staff so that they can send the registration code email to a user, or stop, start, restart, and restore a user’s WorkSpace without having to […]
AWS – Announcing New CloudWatch Metrics for Capacity Monitoring on AWS Outposts
Today we are announcing the availability of two new CloudWatch metrics for capacity monitoring on AWS Outposts. The new metrics are UsedInstanceType_Count and AvailableInstanceType_Count. These new metrics provide insight into the number of instance types that are currently in use and available on Outposts. These metrics are available along with the other CloudWatch capacity monitoring […]
AWS – AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas
AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), increases the default service quotas (also commonly known as limits) for On-Demand and Spot resource counts. You can now launch up to 500 concurrent ECS tasks and EKS pods running on Fargate […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 releases self-guided workshop to deploy the End User Computing dashboard
Amazon AppStream 2.0 released a self-guided workshop that enables customers to use AWS services to build and deploy the End User Computing dashboard. You can provide the dashboard to your help desk staff so that they can view details for your AppStream 2.0 fleets, monitor autoscaling activities, and manage user streaming sessions without having to […]
GCP – Are you an Elite DevOps performer? Find out with the Four Keys Project
Through six years of research, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has identified four key metrics that indicate the performance of a software development team: Deployment Frequency – How often an organization successfully releases to production Lead Time for Changes – The amount of time it takes a commit to get into production Change […]
Azure – General availability: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL Database in additional regions
The zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL Database is now generally available in these additional regions: Canada Central, West US 2, and North Europe. Read More for the details.