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AWS – AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports AWS Outposts Racks
Today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) announces support of AWS Outposts racks. With this launch, you can now set your data replication and recovery destinations to AWS Outposts racks, in addition to using AWS Regions and Availability Zones where AWS DRS is available. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 R6gd instances are now available in Europe (Zurich) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6gd instances are available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants is now available in four additional regions
You can now create Amazon S3 Access Grants in the Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Hyderabad, and Spain Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue Studio Notebooks is now available in 6 additional regions
AWS Glue Studio Notebooks provides interactive job authoring in AWS Glue, which helps simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. Studio Notebooks is generally available in the following 6 AWS regions starting today: Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain) and Europe (Zurich). Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Resilience Hub is now a HIPAA eligible service
AWS Resilience Hub is now a HIPAA eligible service, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations to now use AWS Resilience Hub to run sensitive workloads regulated under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). AWS maintains a standards-based risk management program to ensure that the HIPAA-eligible services specifically support HIPAA administrative, technical, and […]
Azure – Generally available: Bulk delete operation for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services
The bulk delete operation allows deletion of FHIR resources across different levels, enabling healthcare organizations to comply with data retention policies while providing asynchronous processing capabilities. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: 20 major security announcements from Next ‘24
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2024. In this update, we’ll give a list of some of the major announcements of security products and security enhancements to Google Cloud. There’s an even longer list here. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud […]
Azure – Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery
Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Data Box Disk is now available with hardware encryption
Azure Data Box Disk is now Generally Available with hardware encryption. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Neuron introduces speculative decoding and vLLM support
Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1, adding continuous batching with vLLM support, and adding support for speculative decoding with Llama-2-70B sample in Transformers NeuronX library. Read More for the details.