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AWS – Amazon MQ Adds Support for LDAP Authentication And Authorization
Amazon MQ now supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), enabling you to authenticate and authorize Amazon MQ users using directory services like Microsoft Active Directory. LDAP support simplifies authentication and access control for Amazon MQ brokers. You can now authenticate your Amazon MQ users through the credentials stored in your LDAP server. You can also […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI add support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication of private workers
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a fully managed data labeling service that makes it easy to build highly accurate training datasets for machine learning. Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I) makes it easy to build the workflows required for human review of ML predictions. Amazon A2I brings human review to all developers, removing the undifferentiated heavy […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Distributor adds support to install and update agents on Oracle Linux platforms
Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows you to install and update software agents on instances running Oracle Linux 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, and 7.8. This support simplifies agent management for environments that include Oracle Linux instances. Read More for the details.
AWS – Easily enable operations best practices across AWS accounts and Regions with AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup
AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup now integrates with AWS Organizations to allow you to easily enable visibility and control of your instances across AWS accounts and Regions. Now, with just a few clicks, you can enable operations best practices across your organization, such as patch compliance scanning and instance inventory collection. Read More for the […]
Azure – Azure Log Analytics saved searches functionality is moving to query explorer
Azure Log Analytics saved searches functionality is now available in query explorer. Read More for the details.
GCP – IDC study shows Google Cloud Platform helps SMBs accelerate business growth with 222% ROI
Often facing limited time and resources, small and medium businesses (SMBs) increasingly need solutions that can help them accelerate innovation and gain a competitive edge. As a result, many are turning to cloud technologies that can help them spend less time managing infrastructure and more time growing their businesses. But not all public cloud providers […]
GCP – 3 paths for disaster recovery for SAP systems on Google Cloud
Disaster recovery (DR) is all too often an afterthought in business continuity strategies. Even enterprises with complex systems and terabyte upon terabyte of sensitive data can be guilty of having outdated and untested DR plans, or no DR plan at all. An effective DR plan focuses on the technology systems supporting critical business functions; it […]
GCP – Next OnAir sessions to get the most out of Google Cloud infrastructure
Worried about how to build an environment that can scale to your most demanding applications and users? Don’t be—just piggyback on Google Cloud’s rock-solid, planetary-scale infrastructure. Start by watching Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir infrastructure week keynote. Then, here’s a curated list of sessions that will give you a taste for the depth and breadth […]
Azure – SR-IOV availability on InfiniBand-equipped Virtual Machines
We are upgrading the virtualization technology through which customer VMs can access our high-bandwidth, low-latency InfiniBand network on our RDMA-enabled VM Sizes. By enabling SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization), customers will be able to use any MPI (Message Passing Interface) implementation or InfiniBand verb set, greatly increasing ability and options for leveraging Infiniband for their […]
Azure – SR-IOV availability schedule on NCv3 Virtual Machines SKU
View the full schedule, by region, for updates coming to NCv3 Virtual machines. Read More for the details.