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AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP supports write once, read many (WORM) protection with SnapLock
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports SnapLock, an ONTAP feature that prevents data from being modified or deleted for a specified retention period by transitioning files to a write once, read many (WORM) state. FSx for ONTAP is the first and only fully managed file storage service in the cloud offering WORM protection. You […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) launches index improvements
Amazon DocumentDB launches index improvements enabling faster index builds on collections and the ability to view index build statuses. Amazon DocumentDB index builds can now be sped by up to 14X when using parallel workers compared to using a single worker. The index creation process now uses two workers by default, and you can configure […]
AWS – AWS Mainframe Modernization expands control and visibility of runtime environments
AWS Mainframe Modernization is now available with a range of new capabilities for easier management and operation of the service’s fully-managed runtime environments. The capabilities include role-based access, application-level monitoring, and application deployment updates that enable seamless user authorization control, greater application performance visibility, and faster application deployment, respectively, for modernizing mainframe applications. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches unified color experience for analysis and dashboards
Amazon QuickSight introduces new unified coloring experience for your analysis and dashboards. Authors now have a way to assign colors on a field level which means that different visuals having the same field will now have the same color. Thus, making it easier for authors to specify color once on field level and reuse across […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight adds axis customization options for small multiples and radar chart
Amazon QuickSight now supports new axis configurations for small multiples and radar charts, empowering users to customize axis settings according to their use case. In small multiples, users now have the option to select either shared or independent axis configuration for both the X and Y axes, specifically for line and bar charts. Read More […]
GCP – Simplify troubleshooting in Google Kubernetes Engine with new playbooks
Here at Google Cloud we are always trying to find new ways to simplify how our customers troubleshoot. We’re excited to announce the introduction of a new troubleshooting experience: recommended interactive playbooks for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). When dealing with issues that may be new to you, but that we’ve seen commonly in the past, […]
GCP – Buy or build? A Framing Up FinOps case study on advanced reporting
According to this year’s State of FinOps report, across cloud providers, organizations employ 4.1 cloud cost-management tools. Four point one! We’ve observed a similar trend with our own customers. On average, they report using four tools — native, third-party, and homegrown — to make sense of their cloud bills. Astoundingly, we’ve learned from some of […]
GCP – How to build an optimized infrastructure without burning out your IT team
IT infrastructure is essential to the success of any organization. Unfortunately burnout is a very real threat to many IT teams’ wellbeing and productivity, compromising their ability to deliver and maintain that infrastructure. We’ve seen that utilizing the public cloud can reduce burnout, but many IT teams still aren’t sure how to make that switch. […]
GCP – Improve training time of distributed machine learning with NCCL Fast Socket
Large Machine Learning (ML) models – such as large language models, generative AI, and vision models – are dramatically increasing the number of trainable parameters and are achieving state-of-the-art results. Increasing the number of parameters results in the model being too large to fit on a single VM instance thus demands distributed compute to spread […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure Dedicated Host – Resize
Introducing resize capability for Azure dedicated hosts Read More for the details.