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AWS – AWS Backup adds Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to its set of services for centralized data protection
AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems, helping you meet your centralized data protection and regulatory compliance needs. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed AWS service that allows you to run NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Cloud. You can now use AWS Backup’s policy-based […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS App Mesh now supports IPv6 allowing customers to support workloads running in IPv6 networks and to invoke App Mesh APIs over IPv6. This helps customers to meet IPv6 compliance requirements, and removes the need for expensive networking equipment to handle address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports linear learner algorithm with Redshift ML
Amazon Redshift ML enables you to create, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models using familiar SQL commands. With Amazon Redshift ML, you can leverage Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, without moving your data or learning new skills. Amazon Redshift now supports Amazon SageMaker Linear Learner algorithm for creating models with Amazon […]
AWS – AWS Resilience Hub adds support for Terraform, Amazon ECS, and additional services
AWS Resilience Hub now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Route 53, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Backup, and the ability to use Terraform as a source to upload applications. With this expansion of supported resources, you can use Resilience Hub to prepare and protect even more of your applications from disruptions. […]
GCP – How a robotics startup switched clouds and reduced its Kubernetes ops costs with GKE Autopilot
Don’t look now, but Brain Corp. operates over 100,000 of its robots in factories, supermarkets and warehouses, doing all the repetitive things that we always hoped robots would do: cleaning floors, taking inventory, restocking shelves, etc. And BrainOS, the AI software platform that powers these autonomous mobile robots, doesn’t just run in the robots themselves […]
GCP – Announcing policy guardrails for Terraform on Google Cloud CLI preview
Terraformis a popular open source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool today and is used by organizations of all sizes across the world. Whether you use Terraform locally as a developer or as a platform admin managing complex CI/CD pipelines, Terraform makes it easy to deploy infrastructure on Google Cloud. Today, we are pleased to announce […]
GCP – Google Cloud VMware Engine: Optimize application licensing costs with custom core counts
Customers are increasingly migrating their workloads to the cloud, including applications that are licensed and charged based on the number of physical CPU cores on the underlying node or in the cluster. To help customers manage and optimize their application licensing costs on Google Cloud VMware Engine, we introduced a capability called custom core counts […]
GCP – Equifax data fabric uses Google Cloud to spin faster innovation
Editor’s note: Here, we look at how Equifax used Google Cloud’s Bigtable as a foundational tool to reinvent themselves through technology. Identifying stolen identities, evaluating credit scores, verifying employment and income for processing credit requests requires data—truckloads of data—galaxies of data! But it’s not enough to just have the most robust data assets; you have […]
Azure – Public preview: HostProcess Containers
You can now package and distribute management operations and functionalities that require host access while retaining versioning and deployment methods provided by containers. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Bring your own Container Network Interface plugin
Use third-party open source or commercial Container Network Interface (CNI) plugins with AKS. Read More for the details.