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AWS – AWS announces AWS Modular Data Center (MDC) for U.S. Department of Defense customers
Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Modular Data Center (MDC) to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). AWS MDC makes it easy for DoD agencies to deploy modular data centers managed by AWS in infrastructure-limited locations. AWS MDC is available as a self-contained modular data center unit: an environmentally controlled physical enclosure that can […]
GCP – Meet our Data Champions: Di Mayze, calling creative brains to draw stories from data
Editor’s note: This is the first blog in a series called Meet the Google Cloud Data Champions, a series celebrating the people behind data and AI-driven transformations. Each blog features a champion’s career journey, lessons learned, advice they would give other leaders, and more. This story features Di Mayze, Global Head of Data and AI […]
GCP – Grow and scale your startup with Google Cloud
At Google Cloud, we understand how important it is for startups to get holistic technical support so that you can build and scale your businesses to the next level. The Google Cloud Technical Guides for Startups Series helps you do this and more with its Start, Build and Grow multi-series. In the Start and Build […]
GCP – Planning an IPv6 network on Google Cloud
Google Cloud supports a wide range of IPv6 capabilities. When using IPv6 addressing, Google Cloud gives you the choice of using Global Unicast Addresses (GUA) for external connectivity or Unique Local Addresses (ULA) for private connectivity. In a previous blog, we discussed when and how to use ULA addressing for private communication in Google Cloud. […]
AWS – AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now available in 3 new regions
Today, we would like to announce expansion of AWS Mainframe Modernization service to 3 new regions: US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and Asia Pacific (Seoul). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports instance refresh for standby and scale-in protected EC2 instances
Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of instance refresh to support instances on standby or protected from scale in. For instances on standby, you now have the options to terminate them, ignore them altogether, as well as the current option to wait until they return to in service. For protected instances, you now […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollback
Today, we are excited to announce the ability to roll back an EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh. EC2 Auto Scaling’s instance refresh feature allows you to replace instances in an Auto Scaling group on a rolling basis. With today’s launch, you can use rollback to undo changes an instance refresh made when it fails. Read […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless now supports large worker sizes to run more compute or memory intensive workloads
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. An EMR Serverless application internally uses workers to execute your workloads and you can configure different worker configurations based on the […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now automates deployment of SAP S/4HANA Foundation and SAP S/4HANA 2022
AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to automate deployment of SAP S/4HANA Foundation applications, and SAP S/4HANA 2022. This launch expands on existing Launch Wizard capabilities that allow you to automate deployment of SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA 2020 and 2021. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Zurich). X2idn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake), are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in price performance compared to previous generation X1 instances. The X2idn instance is built on the […]