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AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2023 Release Update for 21c
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the April 2023 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 21c. Read More for the details.
AWS – QuickSight now provides standardized user level cost and usage data
Amazon QuickSight administrators can now access user level cost and usage data for all user types in AWS Billing Cost and Usage Reports in a standardized format. This common format across reader, authors, and admin user types will allow QuickSight customers to create standardized cost breakdowns of their deployments, and enable cost charge back to […]
AWS – Single Region Terraform support now available for AWS Control Tower Account Factory
AWS Control Tower now offers single-region support for Terraform through account factory customization. You can now customize new and existing AWS accounts prior to provisioning them from AWS Control Tower using Terraform open source. With this release, you can now use AWS Control Tower and AWS Service Catalog to define account blueprints using Terraform. The […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I4i is available in AWS GovCloud (US) and Africa Regions
Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now also available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West, US-East) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 now supports Amazon EC2 t3.medium and r5 instances
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 extends instance support to Amazon EC2 t3.medium and r5 instances, in addition to previously supported Amazon EC2 r6g instances. You can now use Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 free trial with t3.medium instance and upto 96 vCPUs and 768 GiB RAM with r5 instances. Please refer to supported instance specifications to learn more. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports R6i database instance in Europe (Frankfurt) Region
Amazon Aurora R6i database instances are now generally available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL- Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. Read More for the details.
Azure – Announcing the new Azure Container Registry libraries
We’re pleased to announce that version 1.1.0 of the Azure Container Registry (ACR) libraries for .NET, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python are now generally available. Read More for the details.
GCP – Highlight your generative AI skills by earning the new no-cost skill badge
Generative AI is a rapidly expanding technology with a wide range of potential applications. Google Cloud Learning is thrilled to offer a new, no-cost Generative AI Fundamentals skill badge. This skill badge is designed for anyone eager to learn about the power of generative AI. No technical skills or prior knowledge required! For those new […]
GCP – Computer vision made easy: Vision AI on Spring Boot and Java
In today’s era of data-driven applications, leveraging advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence services like computer vision has become increasingly important. One such service is the Vision API, which provides powerful image analysis capabilities. In this blog, we will explore how to create a Computer Vision application using Spring Boot and Java, enabling you to […]
GCP – The Modernization Imperative: Shifting left is for suckers. Shift down instead
Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Modernization Imperative, also known as ‘TMI’ — an acronym perfectly capturing our mission: to enthusiastically over-share on all things tech. This column from Google Cloud leaders is dedicated to software development, distributed systems, serverless, microservices, DevOps & SRE, platform operations, or whatever buzzword du jour is sparking the […]