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GCP – Expanding 24/7 multilingual support: Now in Mandarin Chinese and Korean
At Google Cloud, we fully grasp that the need for technical support can arise at any hour. Further, the importance of communicating in a language you’re comfortable is paramount, particularly when dealing with urgent issues. To help, we’re expanding the current 8×5 support offering to 24×7 for P1 and P2 cases for Korean Enhanced and […]
GCP – Smart City Zurich: How Anthos is driving the city’s digital transformation
How can Municipal IT departments support cities’ digital transformation? Ask Reto Hirt, lead IT architect at Zurich’s information technology center OIZ. In this guest blog post, Hirt takes us behind the scenes of his department, which supports the city’s digital acceleration. He shares the unique IT challenges in the public sector, how Zurich’s IT is […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store increases API throughput limit
Parameter Store, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) for GetParameter and GetParameters APIs, increased from the previous 3,000 TPS limit. Parameter Store allows you to securely store configuration data and secrets as hierarchical key-value pairs. You can flexibly store parameters such as API keys, subnet IDs, […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize improves quality for batch recommendations by using the latest streamed data
Amazon Personalize now uses the latest streamed data for batch recommendations, improving recommendation quality by capturing recent user interactions. Batch recommendations now use newly recorded events streamed via Personalize’s event tracker to generate recommendations without requiring retraining of the model. Previously, batch recommendations would only consider the interactions up to the point of the last […]
AWS – AWS Wickr is now available in the Canada (Central) Region
AWS Wickr is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. This expansion allows organizations based in Canada to establish an AWS Wickr network in their geography to help facilitate compliance with local data residency needs and other regulations. The expansion also allows organizations to manage networks across multiple commercial regions and marks the beginning […]
Azure – General Availability: Azure Native New Relic Service
Enable full stack cloud monitoring and leverage rich deep integration capabilities between Azure and New Relic, with Azure Native New Relic Service now generally available. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect now publishes higher frequency metrics
Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect now publishes flow metrics to Amazon CloudWatch in 1-second intervals, instead of the previous 1-minute interval rate. These metrics can be retrieved using the console or the CloudWatch API at 1-second periods for up to 3 hours after the datapoints are created. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS introduces CSI Driver for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
The Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver is now available as an open-source project. The CSI driver makes it easy for developers to use Amazon FSx for OpenZFS with their Kubernetes containers running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or on self-managed Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon EC2. Read More for the details.
AWS – Mountpoint for Amazon S3 adds support for creating new files
You can now use Mountpoint for Amazon S3 to create new files in Amazon S3. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls like GET and PUT. It is ideal for workloads that read large datasets (terabytes to petabytes in size) and write […]