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AWS – Amazon EC2 I4i is available in UAE, Jakarta, and Hyderabad regions
Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now also available in the Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Hyderabad) Regions. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs.Amazon EC2 I4i instances […]
GCP – Optimizing your cloud costs is even easier with Committed Use Discount recommendations
Cloud FinOps is an iterative journey, and cost optimization is no different. Since establishing cost optimization isn’t a one-size-fits all quick fix, your optimization tools should adapt and evolve with your business. For iterative, progressive optimization, Google Cloud customers can leverage Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) to reduce anticipated costs with minimum spend or resource commitments […]
GCP – Automate your data warehouse migration to BigQuery with new data migration tool
As customers embark on their digital transformation journey, migrating on-premises data warehouses to the cloud accounts for a significant percentage of their overall transformation efforts. Today, to accelerate data warehouse migrations to BigQuery, we are announcing additional services in the form of a data migration tool that automates the migration of on-premises data warehouses to […]
GCP – No more waiting on hold: How Google Cloud Contact Center AI improves Sales Development operations
Google Cloud’s contact centers have been live for over a decade, during which we’ve seen demand accelerate significantly. Fast growth has led to a spike in calls, posing enormous challenges to our call center capabilities. At any given time, people from all over the world are asking Google Cloud for something, and they need to […]
GCP – Get your BigQuery production sample, all self-serving
We are proposing a solution for the problem of getting fresh PROD samples from BigQuery. The solution also provides safety measures to avoid accidental data exfiltration, and at the same time, it’s self-serving. You get a fresh sample every day. No more outdated schemas or stale samples. If this got your attention, chances are, you […]
GCP – Streaming Cloud Spanner changes with Apache Kafka at scale
Overview Cloud Spanner is a highly scalable database that combines unlimited scalability with relational semantics, strong consistency, schemas, and SQL providing 99.999% availability in one easy solution. Hence, it’s suitable for both relational and non-relational workloads. With Spanner change streams, users can track and stream out changes (inserts, updates, and deletes) from their Spanner database […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides additional performance metrics and an enhanced monitoring dashboard
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, an AWS service that provides the only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud, now provides additional Amazon CloudWatch performance metrics for improved visibility into file system activity and enhanced monitoring dashboards with performance insights and recommendations . You can use the new metrics and dashboards to […]
AWS – New self-service Vendor Insights onboarding experience for AWS Marketplace sellers
AWS Marketplace sellers can now utilize a new, simplified onboarding process to create Vendor Insights security profiles, reducing the time it takes to make their product profiles visible to prospective buyers. AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights allows customers to complete third-party software risk assessments in days instead of months. Sellers with AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights profiles […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon GameLift support for instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors
We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports the latest generation of compute-optimized AWS Graviton instances. Amazon GameLift is a fully-managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. Graviton-based instances are powered by the latest AWS Graviton3 processors and deliver up to 25% higher performance […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7a instances. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Hpc7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances. Hpc7a instances feature 2x higher core density (up to 192 cores), 2.1x higher memory bandwidth throughput, […]