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AWS – AWS Incident Detection and Response now supports New Relic integration
AWS Incident Detection and Response now supports ingestion of events from New Relic via Amazon EventBridge. AWS Incident Detection and Response offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive monitoring and incident management for their selected workloads to help improve operations, increase workload resiliency, and accelerate recovery from critical incidents. Now when your New Relic Workflow creates […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR Serverless
AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 35 additional AWS services including Amazon EMR Serverless, AWS Clean Rooms, AWS IoT Fleetwise and AWS IoT Roborunner. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) and AWS Europe (Zurich) Regions
With the general availability of Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager in the AWS Europe (Spain) and AWS Europe (Zurich) Regions, customers in those regions can now automate the creation, sharing, copying and retention of Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs via policies. Data Lifecycle Manager eliminates the need for complicated custom scripts to manage your EBS […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch announces increased quotas for Logs Insights
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights has increased the log group quota from 20 to 50, increased query timeouts from 15 minutes to 60 minutes, and increased query concurrency quota from 20 to 30. By increasing the queried log groups’ quotas from 20 to 50, customers can now select up to 50 log groups in a single […]
AWS – Announcing the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default across all EC2 instances in an account
AWS Systems Manager customers now have the option to enable Systems Manager, and configure permissions for all EC2 instances in an account, with a single action using the Default Host Management Configuration (DHMC) Agent. This feature provides a method to help ensure core Systems Manager capabilities such as Patch Manager, Session Manager, and Inventory are available […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2023 Release Updates (RU) for 19c and 21c
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2023 Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 19c and Oracle Database 21c. Read More for the details.
GCP – Serving PyTorch models with prebuilt containers on Vertex AI
Machine learning (ML) practitioners using PyTorch tell us that it can be challenging to advance their ML project beyond experimentation. That’s why over the last year, we’ve prioritized development workthat makes it easier for PyTorch users to deploy models in the cloud using Vertex AI. Vertex AI is a fully-managed machine learning platform with tools, […]
GCP – Securing Cloud Run Deployments with Least Privilege Access
With Cloud Run, developers can quickly deploy production web applications and APIs on a serverless environment that runs on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure. While development teams can leverage Cloud Run to improve development agility and iterate quickly, many overlook their infrastructure’s security posture. In particular, one aspect of security that does not get enough […]
GCP – Local SSD for high-performance storage on Google Kubernetes Engine
Customers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) use Local SSD for applications that need to rapidly download and process data eg. AI/ML, analytics, batch, in-memory caches. These applications download data to the Local SSD from object storage such as Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and process this data in applications running as pods on GKE. As data […]
GCP – What would you build with $500 in Google Cloud credits included with Innovators Plus?
Imagine you had $500 in Google Cloud credits to build whatever you want. That’s what you get when you start an Innovators Plus subscription, along with a range of other benefits including: access to the entire catalog of on-demand training on Google Cloud Skills Boost, a certification exam voucher, invite-only quarterly technical briefings, and live-learning […]