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AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now forecasts frequently for more accurate predictive scaling
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now produces predictive scaling policy forecasts 4x per day, up from 1x per day prior to now. Reducing our forecast interval from 24 hours to 6 hours produces more accurate predictive scaling policies that quickly adapt to changing demand trends. All customers will benefit from this new default for predictive scaling. […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless Custom images: Bring your own libraries and application dependencies
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. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Serverless now allows you to customize images for Apache Spark and Hive. This […]
AWS – AWS App Runner now supports retrieving secrets and configuration from AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager
AWS App Runner now supports retrieving secrets and configuration data stored in AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store in an App Runner service as runtime environment variables. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure. […]
GCP – Two networking patterns for secure intra-cloud access
In a previous article 6 building blocks for cloud networking, we discussed an easy to remember breakdown of cloud networking. This model is made up of network connectivity, network security, service networking, service security, content delivery and observability. In this article we would be looking at 2 simple networking methods for secure intra-cloud access. The […]
GCP – Announcing launch of Event-driven transfer for Cloud Storage
Customers have told us they need to move data in real-time with all the benefits Storage Transfer Service (STS) offers – scheduling, retries, checksumming, details logs etc. Why? To smoothly replicate data between Cloud Storage buckets. Customers need asynchronous, scalable service to aggregate data in a single bucket for data processing and analysis, keep buckets […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in US West (Oregon)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Region US West (Oregon). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. They are […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud are now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 now automatically encrypts all new objects
Amazon S3 now automatically applies S3 managed server-side encryption (SSE-S3) as a base level of encryption to all new objects added to S3, at no additional cost and with no impact on performance. SSE-S3 uses 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard and has been configured for trillions of objects by customers. This new base level of encryption […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Elastic Fabric Adapter Installer v1.21
AWS released a newer version of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) Installer (v1.21). This version introduces support for the Rocky Linux v9.0 and OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 operating systems. Read More for the details.
GCP – SAVI transforms global surgical instrument tracking with Google Cloud
Powered by Vertex AI (Google Cloud’s platform for accelerating development and deployment of machine learning models into production), SAVI (Semi Automated Vision Inspection)1 is transforming surgical instrument identification and cataloging, leading to fewer canceled surgeries and easing pressure on surgery waitlists. Max Kelsen, an analytics and software agency that specializes in machine learning, has worked […]