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Azure – General availability: Gateway Load Balancer IPv6 Support
IPv6 support for Gateway Load Balancer is now generally available in all regions, enabling bump-in-the-wire network virtual appliance (NVA) insertion for your dual-stack architectures. Read More for the details.
GCP – A deeper look into retail use cases with Google Distributed Cloud Edge
Edge computing unlocks new opportunities for retailers to deliver better customer experiences while meeting cost and efficiency goals. For example, retailers can unlock use cases such as inventory detection, visual inspection, large scale data analysis among others. In this blog post, we will take a deeper look at some of the key retail use cases […]
GCP – Data on Kubernetes has crossed the chasm: the case for running stateful apps on GKE
Kubernetes is the de facto standard today for cloud-native development. For a long time, Kubernetes was mostly associated with stateless applications such as web and batch applications. However, like most things, Kubernetes is constantly evolving. These days, we are seeing an exponential increase in the number of stateful apps on Kubernetes. In fact, the number […]
GCP – So long data silos: Announcing BigQuery Omni cross-cloud joins
Organizations worldwide are dealing with growing volumes of data and distributed data lakes across different cloud platforms. We launched BigQuery Omni to help customers break down these data silos, with the help of several cross-cloud analytics capabilities including cross-cloud transfer and cross-cloud transform (create table as a select). Already, in the past six months, BigQuery […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R7g and M7g Instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm) region
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g and M7g instances in Europe (Stockhom). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Serial Console now available in additional AWS Regions
Starting today, the interactive EC2 Serial Console is now also available in Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) regions. EC2 Serial Console provides a simple and secure way to troubleshoot […]
AWS – AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6gd instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in Europe (Zurich) region. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the (Hong Kong) region
Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now enables supervisors to manage in-progress contacts
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports the ability to transfer, reschedule or end in-progress contacts on the contact details page within the Amazon Connect UI. Today, Amazon Connect Contact Lens enables supervisors to search for and view in-progress and completed contacts across voice, chat and task channels. With this launch, supervisors can perform actions on […]
AWS – You can now generate human-readable sample data with NoSQL Workbench
Prototyping your application’s data model with Amazon DynamoDB has just gotten simpler with sample data generation using NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB. The ability to generate sample data enables you to create realistic demos and test your application access patterns under conditions that closely simulate a production environment. You can use NoSQL Workbench to generate […]