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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 […]

GCP – Firestore integration with Eventarc reaches GA with Auth Context
Creating event-driven architectures using Eventarc together with Firestore is an increasingly popular pattern. Recently, the Firestore integration with Eventarc became generally available, adding new functionality. You can now register multiple Cloud Functions in different regions against a multi-regional Firestore database for increased reliability, and there are new event types, including the Auth Context extension for […]

GCP – Data democratization with Dataplex: Implementing a data mesh architecture
Editor’s note: Today’s blog post was written in collaboration with Google Cloud Premier Partner Virtusa, which specializes in building cloud-native, microservices-based, pre-built solutions and APIs on Kubernetes, as well as machine learning and data-oriented applications, as well as offering managed cloud services and cloud operations design. In the ever-evolving world of data engineering and analytics, […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: Making data activation and monetization accessible with Optable
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing tech companies and data providers that are Built with BigQuery. In recent years, changes in consumer privacy regulations have created disruption within the media and advertising ecosystem. Publishers have felt some of the biggest impact, needing to change the way they think about ad monetization […]
AWS – Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
Amazon S3 will make a change so unauthorized requests that customers did not initiate are free of charge. With this change, bucket owners will never incur request or bandwidth charges for requests that return an HTTP 403 (Access Denied) error response if initiated from outside their individual AWS account or AWS Organization. To see the […]