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GCP – Proactively manage your subnet IP address allocation with Network Analyzer
Effectively managing your network’s IP addresses is essential to efficiently operating your enterprise. As a network administrator, observing the usage and growth of your IP address space is essential for capacity planning and proactively avoiding costly downtime. It is also key to identify where IP address allocation is non-optimal and could be resized for better […]
Azure – Azure Red Hat OpenShift August 2023 updates
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now DoD IL4 certified, allows you to deploy infrastructure nodes without an OpenShift subscription fee, and provides increased security by allowing private clusters without public IP. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EKS makes it easier to configure and use Amazon EFS for persistent shared file storage
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver as an EKS add-on, making it simpler and easier to use EFS shared file storage with your EKS clusters. Read More for the details.
AWS – SageMaker Studio announces pre-built docker ‘SageMaker Distribution’ for machine learning
Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables Data Scientists and ML practitioners with their end to end machine learning workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. In May 2023, we launched SageMaker Distribution a pre-built docker image which includes the most popular […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports replicas for Single-tenant instances
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle supports read and mounted replicas for instances on the multitenant container database (CDB) architecture running in single-tenant configuration. Amazon RDS for Oracle replicas fully manage the configuration of Oracle Data Guard to create and maintain replicas in the same or different AWS Region as the primary […]
AWS – AWS Batch now supports price capacity optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances
Starting today, customers can specify the price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy in AWS Batch. Previously, AWS Batch supported the capacity optimized Spot allocation strategy that is designed to optimize Spot Instance placement based on capacity availability to help reduce the likelihood that workloads are interrupted. The new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy is designed to provide […]
GCP – A definitive guide to the Database Observability with Cloud SQL: Part 1
Introduction Database performance is essential for any business because it affects the efficiency and effectiveness of day-to-day operations. A slow database can cause delays in processing transactions, which can have a negative impact on customer satisfaction and profitability. Cloud SQL for PostgreSQLoffers database observability through Cloud SQL Insights and SQLcommenter, which help customers diagnose, detect, […]
Azure – Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in East Asia
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in East Asia Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing Personalized Service Health: Upleveling incident response communications
When an incident disrupts a cloud service that you rely on, an effective response starts with identifying the source of that disruption and evaluating the scope of impact. This is crucial to charting a course of action — whether that’s communicating with your stakeholders or deploying a disaster recovery procedure. But when you use a […]
Azure – General availability: JSON support for active geo-replication on Azure Cache for Redis
Work with JSON-style documents synced across multiple regions Read More for the details.