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GCP – Improving the Slurm on Google Cloud Experience
If you use the Slurm workload manager to manage your HPC workloads on Google Cloud, get ready for some new enhancements to Slurm on Google Cloud. We’re pleased to announce a set of improvements to the Slurm on Google Cloud open-source code, developed by SchedMD. This includes support for more resource types and operating systems, […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio now supports Apache Flink version 1.15
Customers can now use Apache Flink 1.15 with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio to perform ad hoc queries to quickly inspect data streams and build and run stream processing applications in minutes. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift (Public Preview)
Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available in public preview. This feature enables near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on petabytes of transactional data stored in Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. Data written into Aurora is available in Amazon Redshift within seconds, so you can quickly act on it without having […]
AWS – Aurora MySQL improves performance when binlog is enabled in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports a new, enhanced binary log (binlog). The enhanced binlog reduces the compute performance overhead caused by enabling binlog, which, in certain cases, can reach up to 50%, down to 13%. The enhanced binlog also improves database recovery time by up to 99% after restarts and failovers, as compared to […]
GCP – Unlocking cloud cost optimization: A guide to Google FinOps Resources
We’ve been saying it for years, the benefits and potential of the cloud abound. And yet, more than 80% of respondents in a survey of 753 business leaders point to managing cloud spend as their top organizational challenge, and these same respondents estimate that nearly 1/3 of their cloud spend is inefficient or wasted (Flexera, […]
AWS – Amazon Linux announces support for secure boot with AL2023.1
Today we are announcing the support for UEFI Secure Boot on Amazon Linux instances. Starting with AL2023.1, customers can now use Secure Boot on Amazon Linux instances to verify the digital signature of all boot components. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne). Read More for the details.
AWS – New commitment pricing is now generally available for AWS Private 5G
AWS announces two new pricing options for AWS Private 5G for longer-term network deployments. Now, in addition to the 60-day pricing option, you can deploy your private mobile network with a 1-year or 3-year pricing option, at a lower per-hourly rate. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Timestream now offers a free trial
You can now try Amazon Timestream with a 1-month free trial. First time users now have the opportunity to experiment with and adopt Timestream at zero cost for a duration of one month, while adhering to specific usage quotas. This free trial enables you to evaluate the feature set of Timestream and without any financial […]
GCP – Google is named a Leader in Forrester Functions-As-A-Service Wave
We introduced Cloud Functions in 2016 with the mission of making it easy for developers to build highly scalable, event-driven applications without having to worry about managing infrastructure. We are committed to providing flexible and fast application development while serving our customer needs for portability in our commitment to our open cloud. Our functions-as-a-service (FaaS) […]