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GCP – Six benefits of using Service Directory in your environment
Want to know what Service Directory is and why you should be using it in your Google Cloud environment? Service Directory is a managed service that gives you a single place to publish, discover, and connect services.Among the many reasons to use Service Directory, here are six of my favorite key benefits: #1 Single place […]
GCP – Meet the inaugural class of the Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change in Europe
Research supported by Google and conducted by Implement Consulting shows that digital technologies are critical to facilitating energy and emissions savings. Startups working on groundbreaking technologies for adaptation and climate solutions have an important role to play in accelerating climate action. At Google, we want to foster a thriving ecosystem for startups advancing sustainability via […]
Azure – Public preview: Accelerated Connections for Network Virtual Appliances now in Azure Marketplace
Accelerated Connections is a new product that enhances Accelerated Networking enabled vNICs, enabling customers to increase connections per second and improve performance in multiple active connection scenarios. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Auckland, New Zealand
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location in Auckland, New Zealand. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Auckland location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud announces IPv6 support
Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now supports IPv6, allowing you to forward traffic to and resolve traffic from on-premises Domain Name System (DNS) servers with IPv6 addresses. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for emitting customer metrics for managed endpoints
We are excited to announce support for customer-level metrics when running interactive Spark workloads via managed endpoints. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers can setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads […]
AWS – Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now create and manage clusters in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Prefix Lists now available in two additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can create their own Prefix Lists in two additional AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich) and Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon EMR Hive as a big query engine
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio. Data Wrangler enables you to access data from a wide variety of popular sources (Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR Presto, Snowflake) and over 40 other third-party […]
AWS – Amazon SES adds email receiving metrics for better visibility and control
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces the addition of two new metrics to its Email Receiving service without additional charges, providing customers with greater visibility into message processing workflows. The move comes in response to customer frustration over the limited set of metrics available, which made it difficult for customers to test their setup and […]