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GCP – Data analytics for all — What happened at Week 5, Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir
Data analytics technologies are becoming a must-have for businesses looking to stay competitive in a changing environment. And if there’s one lesson from this unpredictable year, it’s that we always need to be prepared for anything. We spent this week at Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir exploring Google Cloud’s data analytics technologies and hearing how […]

Azure – Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series is now available in West US 2
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in East US, Canada Central, UK South, West Europe, and West US 2. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Sphere OS update 20.08 is now available for compatibility testing
The Azure Sphere 20.08 OS quality update is now available for evaluation via the Retail Eval feed. Read More for the details.

AWS – Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
Starting today, new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C5ad instances featuring 2nd generation AMD EPYC™ processors running at frequencies up to 3.3 GHz are generally available. Amazon EC2 C5ad instances are variants of the recently launched C5a instances and are equipped with local NVMe-based SSD block level storage physically connected to the host server. […]

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-level permission policies
Amazon ElastiCache now allows you to assign permissions to specific resources in AWS IAM policies. You can now assign an IAM principal permissions to specific ElastiCache resource or resources. Prior to this release, Amazon ElastiCache did not support resource level permissions; customers could only assign permissions to all resources for a given action. With this […]

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now enables SAP workload deployment in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions
AWS Launch Wizard now allows customers to more easily deploy SAP workloads in four new AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan). With this release, customers can now deploy SAP using Launch Wizard in 20 regions including US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, […]

AWS – AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event source
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) as an event source, giving customers more choices to build serverless applications with streaming data. Customers can build Apache Kafka consumer applications with Lambda functions without needing to worry about infrastructure management. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service that makes it easy […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support cases
Starting today, AWS Systems Manager Explorer provides a summary of Support cases across your AWS accounts, to help you get better visibility into the operational health of your AWS environment. Systems Manager Explorer is an operations dashboard that provides a view of your operations data across your AWS accounts and Regions, helping you see where […]

AWS – Amazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
You can now use a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute UDP traffic to container-based applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Network Load Balancers are fully-managed load balancers that operate at the connection level (Layer-4) and are capable of handling millions of requests at ultra-low latency. Until now, you could use Network Load […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Solution: Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning
The Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning is an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an automated pipeline for generating, testing, and comparing Amazon Forecast models and forecasts allowing developers and data scientists to reduce either the overhead costs of developing new forecasts or the time required to optimize existing ones. Read More for the details.