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GCP – Anthos in depth: Easy load balancing for your on-prem workloads
For organizations that need to run their workloads on-prem, Anthos is a real game changer. As a hybrid multi-cloud platform that’s managed by Google Cloud, Anthos includes all the innovations that we’ve developed for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) over the years, but running in the customer’s data center. And as such, Anthos can integrate with […]
GCP – Migrate your custom ML models to Google Cloud in 3 steps
Building end-to-end pipelines is becoming more important as many businesses realize that having a machine learning model is only one small step towards getting their ML-driven application into production. Google Cloud offers a tool for training and deploying models at scale, Cloud AI Platform, which integrates with multiple orchestration tools like TensorFlow Extended and KubeFlow […]
Azure – Azure Blob storage point-in-time restore now generally available
Azure Blob storage point-in-time restore provides continuous data protection and restoration capabilities for block blob data. This extends protection features to provide an easy way to restore to a previous date/time Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing AWS Glue Studio: Visual job authoring and advanced monitoring for AWS Glue
AWS Glue Studio is a new visual interface for AWS Glue that makes it easy for extract-transform-and-load (ETL) developers to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs. You can now use a simple visual interface to compose jobs that move and transform data and run them on AWS Glue. You can then use AWS Glue […]
AWS – AWS Backup supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads on EC2
AWS Backup now supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads running on EC2, via Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS). Customers can create, manage, and restore consistent backups of their Microsoft Windows Server instances and Microsoft applications (including SQL Server, Active Directory and Exchange Server) directly from the AWS Backup console. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Europe (Milan) region
You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Europe (Milan) region. Read More for the details.
AWS – You now can restore Amazon DynamoDB table backups as new tables in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
You can use Amazon DynamoDB backup and restore to create on-demand and continuous backups of your DynamoDB tables—and then restore from those backups. You also can restore DynamoDB table backups as new tables in other AWS Regions. Starting today, you can restore table backups as new tables in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong […]
AWS – AWS Ground Station is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion of AWS Ground Station to the Africa (Cape Town) region. This is now the seventh region within the AWS Global Infrastructure Network and the second region in the Southern hemisphere to offer AWS Ground Station. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds 14 new controls to AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard
AWS Security Hub has released 14 new automated security controls for the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard related to AWS EC2 (EC2.7 and EC2.8), Amazon EMR (EMR.1), AWS KMS (KMS.1 and KMS.2), Amazon RDS (RDS.4, RDS.5, RDS.6, RDS.7, and RDS.8), Amazon S3 (S3.6), and AWS Secrets Manager (SecretsManager.1 and SecretsManager.2). Security Hub now supports […]
Azure – New maintenance control features
Increase control over maintenance operations and ensure higher availability for your business-critical applications with two new features now in preview. You can now schedule host maintenance operations in addition to the already available manual updates. Additionally, we are adding the ability for you to control when guest OS image updates on Virtual Machine Scale Sets […]