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AWS – Amazon Omics now supports direct upload to Omics storage and automatic variant data parsing
Today, Amazon Omics announces a new capability for direct data ingestion to Omics storage. Omics storage enables customers to store FASTQ, BAM, and CRAM files at a cost-effective price at scale. Previously, Omics had an asynchronous batch upload process for bulk loading of sequence readsets. This new capability adds a simple synchronous upload capability. The […]
AWS – Amazon Omics announces support for Graphical Processing Units for workflows
Today, Amazon Omics announces support for NVIDIA T4 and a10 graphical processing units (GPUs) for Omics workflows. Omics private workflows allows customers to bring their own workflow scripts and specify the compute resources that they need for each task in their workflow. Customers can now enable NVIDIA T4 and a10g GPUs for use in Omics […]
AWS – Amazon Omics adds pre-built bioinformatic workflows with predictable pricing
Today, Amazon Omics announces the availability of Ready2Run workflows, a set of pre-built workflows from third-party software companies and open-source pipelines. With just a few clicks or a single API call, customers can run pre-built pipelines to perform primary analysis such as converting base calls to FASTQ files, secondary analysis such as gene expression or […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now supports Ubuntu 22.04
Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports patch deployments for instances running Ubuntu 22.04. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch nodes with both security related and other types of updates across your infrastructure. Patch Manager supports a variety of common operating systems, including Windows Server, Amazon Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms is now Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible
AWS Clean Rooms is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service, enabling covered entities and their business associates to use AWS Clean Rooms to process, maintain, and store protected health information. If you have an executed Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS, you can now use AWS Clean Rooms […]
Azure – Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
Policy analytics for Azure Firewall, now in general availability, provides enhanced visibility into traffic flowing through Azure Firewall, enabling the optimization of your firewall configuration without impacting your application performance. Read More for the details.
Azure – Private preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys Read More for the details.
Azure – General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
This is a GA launch announcement blog for Azure Monitor for SAP solutions. Read More for the details.
GCP – How Glance is collaborating with Google to build a next-level Gaming Recommendation engine
Mobile gaming has exploded in popularity in recent years, with billions of people around the world playing games on their smartphones and tablets. Glance, a subsidiary of InMobi, is one of the world’s largest lock screen-based content discovery platforms with over 220 million active users. Redefining the way people use their mobile phone lock screen, […]
GCP – Cloud Workstations is now GA, with new capabilities and integrations
The trend of remote work over the last few years motivated the developer community to explore new ways to collaborate, and search for new tools to address the productivity challenges that arise from this lasting change. We’ve heard from our customers that the shift to remote collaboration tools, while necessary, is both technically and culturally […]