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AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by […]
AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs extends support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
You can now turn on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs for your Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) workloads running on both Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate to export detailed telemetry information for all network flows. Amazon ECS helps you deploy and manage your containerized applications easily and efficiently. VPC Flow Logs enable you […]
AWS – AWS Fault Injection Service is now available in Europe (Spain) Region
Starting today, customers can use AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) in Europe (Spain) Region. FIS is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. FIS simplifies the process of setting up and running controlled fault injection experiments across a range of AWS services, so teams can […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6id instances are now available in Europe (London) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6id instances are available in AWS Region Europe (London). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. M6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M7gd instances are now available in South America (Sao Paulo) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in South America (Sao Paulo) region. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low […]
AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs now support VPC endpoint policies
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs now support Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoint policies in all AWS Regions. This newly supported capability provides a granular access control to your EBS resources for improved data protection and security posture. Previously, customers have full access to EBS direct APIs through an interface VPC endpoint, powered by […]
Azure – Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for Azure Virtual Machines
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the latest Ubuntu LTS release from Canonical, is now available for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU
Designed for customers, especially developers or small enterprises who are looking for a cost-effective Application Load Balancer solution and don’t require high scalability and the advanced features. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Trusted launch VMs Read More for the details.
GCP – Performing large-scale computation-driven drug discovery on Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Atommap, a computational drug discovery company that has built an elastic supercomputing cluster on the Google Cloud to empower large-scale, computation-driven drug discovery. Read on to learn more. Bringing a new medicine to patients typically happens in four stages: (1) target identification that selects the protein target associated with […]