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GCP – Bayer Crop Science seeds the future with 15000-node GKE clusters
Editor’s note: Today’s post examines how GKE’s support of up to 15,000 nodes per cluster benefits a wide range of use cases, including helping Bayer Crop Science rapidly process new information arriving from its genotyping labs.At Google, scalability is a core requirement for the products we build. With more enterprises adopting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), […]

GCP – ¡Escribiendo en Español! Bringing assistive writing features to Google Docs in Spanish
We provide assistive features like Smart Compose and grammar suggestions in Google Docs to help remove friction when writing, so you can focus more on ideas. These widely used features help people write faster and more accurately (we surface over 2 billion grammar suggestions in Docs each month, for example)—but until now, they have only […]

AWS – AWS Single Sign-On is available in the EU (Stockholm) Region
AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) is now available in the EU (Stockholm) Region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Region Table. Read More for the details.

GCP – How Schrödinger is advancing COVID-19 drug discovery efforts with Google Cloud
Technology has been key in helping the healthcare industry take actions in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, as doctors and nurses prepare for the possibility of a second wave, technology will take an even bigger role in the development of new medicines to fight COVID-19. To accelerate this drug discovery process, Schrödinger, a Google […]

Azure – Azure Migrate now supports multiple credentials for discovery of physical servers
Support for adding multiple credentials for discovery and assessment of physical servers and a scale of 1000 physical servers per Azure Migrate appliance Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Automation updated DNS records
To support new features in Azure Automation, like Azure Private Links, the automation URLs have been updated. Instead of region-specific URLs, there are now account-specific URLs. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Cosmos DB transport layer security (TLS) 1.2 enforcement starts on July 29, 2020
Azure Cosmos DB will start enforcing transport layer security (TLS) 1.2 on July 29, 2020. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SQS FIFO Queues are now available in the EU (Milano) region
You can now use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) First-in, First-out (FIFO) queues in the EU (Milano) region. FIFO queues are designed to ensure that the order in which messages are sent and received is strictly preserved and that each message is processed exactly once. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that […]

AWS – ELB lifecycle events now available with Amazon ECS services registered with multiple target groups
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now publishes Elastic Load Balancer(ELB) lifecycle events for services attached to multiple load balancer target groups. ECS will emit service events when tasks are successfully registered or de-registered in target groups or in case of errors in the registration process. This enables you to track the progress of attaching your service […]
AWS – Amazon SQS now provides results for the “List Queues” and “List Dead Letter Source Queues” requests in multiple pages
Amazon SQS makes it easier to manage lists of queues by allowing callers to iterate through the results of ListQueues and ListDeadLetterSourceQueues APIs using a multi-page format. You can check the status of your request and receive the results in multiple pages by setting the MaxResults parameter to a value between 1 and 1000. You can […]