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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.
AWS – Docker and AWS collaborate to help deploy applications to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate
Docker and Amazon Web Services have announced a simplified developer experience to deploy and manage containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) directly from Docker tools. Now, customers can use Docker Desktop and Docker Compose to deploy containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) using the AWS Fargate launch type. After customers build and test […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints for Hybrid Cloud Are Now Available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions
You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs now enable you to create snapshots directly from any block storage
Today, we are announcing that customers can create snapshots of their block storage data, including on-premises data using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs. With a set of API calls, customers can use snapshots to store data in AWS, regardless of where it resides. This enables customers to achieve business continuity in AWS at […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Opscenter is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Opscenter availability to customers in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. OpsCenter helps you view, investigate, and resolve operational issues related to your environment from a central location. OpsCenter presents operational issues in a standardized view, along with contextually relevant data to help you with the diagnosis and remediation of them. You […]