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AWS – Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) capacity providers now support delete functionality. You can delete capacity providers once they are no longer in use using either the AWS Management Console or the new DeleteCapacityProvider API. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available
AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Customers can easily share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS DataSync now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions
You can now use AWS DataSync to transfer data into and out of 2 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town). Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing Spark 3 and Hadoop 3 on Dataproc image version 2.0
Dataproc makes open source data and analytics processing fast, easy, and more secure in the cloud. Dataproc provides fully configured autoscaling clusters in around 90 seconds on custom machine types. This makes Dataproc an ideal way to experiment with and test the latest functionality from the open source ecosystem. Dataproc provides image versions that align […]
GCP – What a trip! Measuring network latency in the cloud
A common question for cloud architects is “Just how quickly can we exchange a request and a response between two endpoints?” There are several tools for measuring round-trip network latency, namely ping, iperf, and netperf, but because they’re not all implemented and configured the same, different tools can return different results. And in most cases, […]
AWS – AWS Amplify Console now supports deploying and hosting web apps managed in monorepos
With this release, Amplify Console makes it easy to deploy projects managed in monorepos. A monorepo is a single repository containing source code for multiple web or mobile apps that share common assets. Amplify Console now automatically detects build settings for monorepos by allowing developers to pick a root directory for their app when connecting […]
AWS – Amazon Polly launches a child US English NTTS Voice
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, and today we are excited to announce the general availability of another child US English voice – Kevin. Kevin’s voice was developed using the latest Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) technology, and imitates the voice of a male child. Amazon Polly offers 14 neural voices across […]
GCP – Future-proofing your business with Google Cloud and SAP
Things are changing fast for just about every business. Many are fundamentally shifting how they operate and how they serve their customers. Add in a global pandemic, and even organizations that are used to change are managing unprecedented shifts. Businesses running on SAP applications know this all too well. Some are adapting to shifting market […]
Azure – Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now in preview in US Gov Arizona
Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now available in preview in US Gov Arizona. It’s also available in an additional eighteen public regions around the world. Read More for the details.
GCP – The future of computing showed up early
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by John Solomon, VP of Chrome OS. Now more than ever, workers rely on technology to stay connected. If you missed John’s discussion with Alex Konrad, listen to the Forbes discussion here, or join John on the premiere episode of Tea Time Tech Talks presented by Chrome Enterprise where John […]