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GCP – Enterprise DevOps Guidebook – Chapter 1
The Google Cloud DORA team has been hard at work releasing our yearly Accelerate State of DevOps report. This research provides an independent view into the practices and capabilities that organizations, irrespective of their size, industry, and region, can employ to drive better performance. Year over year, the State of DevOpsreport helps organizations benchmark themselves against […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M6id instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of new general purpose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances. M6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state disk […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C6id instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the new compute optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances. C6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state […]
AWS – Amazon Lightsail containers now supports deploying images from Amazon ECR private repositories
Amazon Lightsail now supports creating deployments for Lightsail container services using the container images on Amazon ECR private repositories. This launch will enable you to run containers with the simplified experience of Lightsail while utilizing the images you may already have in your private ECR repositories, thus enabling greater portability. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports SQL Server deployments using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS Launch Wizard announces support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Now you can use a simple console wizard to deploy SQL Server FCI on Amazon EC2 with FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the shared storage. This feature will save you time and effort replacing a […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports encryption of data in transit
Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports encryption of data in transit using Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.2. When using encryption in transit, all network traffic between your clients and Memcached cluster are encrypted. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached 1.6.12
Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached has added support for Memcached version 1.6.12. This version is a cumulative update and contains all changes and improvements between version 1.6.6 to 1.6.12. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Enhanced IPv6 functionality for MultiValue profiles in Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager now enables you to specify minimum children property separately for IPv4 and IPv6 endpoints for MultiValue profiles. Read More for the details.
GCP – Eliminate hotspots in Cloud Bigtable
We’ve recently improved Cloud Bigtable’s observability by allowing customers to monitor and observe hot tablets. We now provide customers access to real-time hot tablets data through the Cloud Bigtable Admin API and gcloud command-line tool. In this post, we’ll present how hot tablets observability can be used in real world use cases to help customers […]
AWS – Announcing preview of Amazon EC2 P4de GPU instances for ML training and HPC
We are excited to announce preview of Amazon EC2 P4de instances, our latest GPU-based instances that provide the highest performance for machine learning (ML) training and High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications such as object detection, semantic segmentation, natural language processing, recommender systems, seismic analysis, and computational fluid dynamics. Read More for the details.