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AWS – AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS 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 AWS Fargate orchestrated by Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). 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 […]

AWS – AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model
Today, we are excited to release a new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive convolutional neural network model (AR-CNN) in AWS DeepComposer. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to get started with machine learning (ML). With AWS DeepComposer, developers can get hands-on, literally, with a musical keyboard and the latest machine […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora Supports In-Place Upgrade from PostgreSQL 10 to 11
Starting today, you can upgrade your Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility database cluster from major version 10 to 11, with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations Now Support Windows BYOL
Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now allows you to bring your own licenses (BYOL) of Windows operating systems. With this release, you can now create an EC2 Capacity Reservation and launch EC2 instances, running your existing Windows licenses, into the Capacity Reservation. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Data Explorer LightIngest now supports actual creation time for historical data migration
LightIngest is a command-line utility for large volumes of data ingestion, and for querying records on the time created, rather than the time ingested. Read More for the details.

GCP – Infrastructure for all: What happened at Next OnAir this week
Week three of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir was all about our best-in-class cloud infrastructure, and how to use it to easily run your most demanding applications. From opening remarks from VP of Cloud Infrastructure Brad Calder, Networking GM Shailesh Shukla, and Compute GM June Yang, to deep dives from Google Cloud experts, to breakout […]

GCP – New features and resources that help make the business case to switch to Chrome Enterprise
Whether their businesses are making strategic shifts or supporting a growing remote workforce, IT departments have been the stabilizing force keeping workers productive, secure, and happy in 2020. And many rely on the cloud to help them reduce high-maintenance infrastructure, enable flexible working environments, and maintain the highest level of security for their employees. According […]

Azure – Azure Autoscale generally available in China North 2 and China East 2 regions
Azure Autoscale, which allows you to automatically manage your resources based on the load is now available in China North 2 and China East 2 regions Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logs
AWS Firewall Manager (FMS) now allows you to configure logging on your AWS WAF web ACLs centrally using an FMS policy. When you set up an FMS policy for AWS WAF, you can now enable logging on web ACLs for all the in-scope accounts and have the logs centralized under a single account. Read More […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel and coordinated executions of a build project
AWS CodeBuild now supports the execution of concurrent and coordinated builds of a project with “Batch” builds. Batch builds support the configuration and ordering of build executions with either a configuration list, configuration matrix, or a dependency-graph of build definitions. They’re intended for customers targeting different platforms or executing builds that depend on each other […]