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GCP – Accelerate migration from self-managed object storage to Cloud Storage
Customers want to leverage Google Cloud Storage for its simplicity, scalability, and security. But migrating 100s of TB of data from a self-managed object storage is complicated. Writing and maintaining scripts that use resources effectively during transfer without compromising on security can take months. To accelerate and simplify this migration, Storage Transfer Service recently announced […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now delivers a faster Cluster Auto Scaling experience for scale-in events
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has improved Amazon ECS Capacity Providers to deliver a faster Cluster Auto Scaling experience for scale-in events. Amazon ECS now scales-in excess capacity at a much faster rate, which helps you improve utilization of your infrastructure and saves compute costs. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Batch extends the job report retention period from 24 hours to 7 days
AWS Batch has increased the job report retention period from 24 hours to 7 days. This means that you can now query the details for AWS Batch jobs that were completed up to 7 days ago. With this longer retention period, you no longer need to worry about jobs disappearing after a day. You can […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.5.17, 10.4.26, 10.3.36
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.5.17, 10.4.26 and 10.3.36. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. […]
GCP – Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 4 ways AI/ML boosts innovation and reduces costs
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a new blog series we’re running this fall to answer common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, we explore how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for faster innovation […]
AWS – AWS App Runner now supports deployment using cross-region Amazon ECR image
AWS App Runner now supports Amazon ECR images from any AWS region to create or update App Runner services. App Runner makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure. With App Runner you can deploy your application from source code […]
AWS – AWS Fargate increases compute and memory resource configurations by 4x
AWS Fargate customers can now configure Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods to use up to 16 vCPUs, an approximately 4x increase from before. vCPUs are the primary compute resource in ECS tasks and EKS pods. Larger vCPUs enable compute-heavy applications like machine learning inference, scientific modeling, and […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now provides up to 3x faster hyperparameter tuning with Hyperband as a new search strategy
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning allows you to find the most accurate version of your machine learning model by searching for the optimal set of hyperparameter configurations. SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Hyperband, a new search strategy that can find the optimal set of hyperparameters up to 3x faster than Bayesian search for large-scale […]
AWS – AWS IoT TwinMaker Launches v1.2.0 of the TwinMaker Grafana Plugin
AWS IoT TwinMaker introduces new features to improve the performance of data panels powered by the TwinMaker Grafana Plugin. For a complete list of features, see the changelog on AWS IoT TwinMaker App in Grafana. A few key features included in this new version are: Customers can now define the maximum number of alarms that […]
GCP – Introducing a modern cloud native approach for running Moodle at scale
Even before 2020, the education market was rapidly leaning into digitalization. That trend exploded when the pandemic forced education online, requiring every part of the education process to be digitized. Interaction between students and teachers shifted from physical classrooms to entirely digital ones. Institutions had to work quickly to support this shift. Most either expanded […]