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AWS – Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
Starting today, the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6g instances and the memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6g instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors are generally available. Amazon EC2 C6g instances deliver up to 40% better price performance over x86-based Amazon EC2 C5 instances for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video […]
Azure – Live Video Analytics now in public preview
Live Video Analytics is a platform to capture, record, and analyze live video and publish the results (video and/or video analytics), enabling intelligent video applications. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure App Service regional virtual network integration for Linux apps is now available
The regional virtual network integration feature of Azure App Service, which enables access to resources in your virtual network across service endpoints or ExpressRoute connections, is now available in public regions Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure App Service hybrid connections for Linux apps is now available
The hybrid connections feature of Azure App Service, which enables access to resources in disparate networks, is now available in public regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure API Management updates—June 2020
A regular Azure API Management service update was started on June 10, 2020, and included new features, bug fixes, and changes, along with other improvements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports three Availability Zone deployments in Canada (Central) Region
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now enables you to deploy your instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) providing better availability for your domains. If you enable replicas for your Elasticsearch indices, Amazon Elasticsearch Service distributes the primary and replica shards across nodes in different AZs to maximize availability. Read More for the details.
GCP – Install Maps & Places SDK for iOS Using Carthage
Starting with version 3.9.0, the Maps and Places SDKs for iOS now officially support the decentralized dependency manager, Carthage, for installing these SDKs into your apps. Why support Carthage? CocoaPods has been the leading package manager for third-party dependencies since the very early days of iOS development. Managing dependencies through CocoaPods is reliable and is […]
AWS – Updated digital course: Architecting Serverless Solutions
The digital training course Architecting Serverless Solutions now offers hands-on learning with optional labs. You will now be able to learn how to benefit from new features such as Provisioned Concurrency, AWS Lambda Destinations, and error handling for streams. Read More for the details.
AWS – Digital course now on Coursera: Building Containerized Applications on AWS
We’re excited to announce the launch of Building Containerized Applications on AWS, a self-paced digital course available on Coursera. Using video lectures, hands-on exercise guides, demonstrations, and quizzes, the course explains what containers are, as well as the differences between containers and virtual machines. It also covers how to use AWS services to build and […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for IMDSv2 and Service Linked Role for Managed Updates
Support for IMDSv2 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports IMDSv2, an on-instance component to securely access instance metadata. IMDSv2 comes with many enhancements, including support for session-oriented requests. Learn more about the IMDSV2 enhancements in this blog post. For an overview, see the Release Notes. To learn about configuring the instance metadata service in your Elastic […]