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Azure – General Availability: Managed Run Command – Execute PowerShell or shell scripts on Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
The ability to manage VMs by remotely executing scripts has been improved with the updated Managed Run Command feature. Read More for the details.

Azure – In development: New planned datacenter region in Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia Central)
The new datacenter region will also include Availability Zones, providing customers with high availability and additional tolerance to datacenter failures. Read More for the details.

GCP – Build faster with new optimized solutions and step-by-step guidance
Today, we are introducing new enhancements to the Google Maps Platform experience in the Cloud console to help further increase your development velocity and drive business impact. With this update, you can discover pre-built solutions and let our personalized step-by-step guidance help you get your experiences live faster so you can start seeing more user […]

GCP – How to use NetApp CVS as datastores for Google Cloud VMware Engine
Google Cloud VMware Engine delivers a fully managed enterprise-grade VMware experience that is built on Google Cloud’s highly performant and scalable infrastructure. By enabling a consistent VMware experience, the service allows customers to adopt Google Cloud rapidly, easily, and with minimal change to on-premises vSphere workloads, bringing the best of VMware and Google Cloud together […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C7g metal instances are now available
Starting today, Graviton3-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in bare metal size. C7g instances deliver up to 25% better compute performance, up to 2x higher floating-point performance, up to 2x faster cryptographic performance, and up to 3x faster CPU-based machine learning (ML) performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, including support […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are now available in South America (Sao Paulo) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB (u-12tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in South America (Sao Paulo) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (UAE) Regions
AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (UAE) regions, bringing AWS Firewall Manager to a total of 25 AWS commercial regions, 2 GovCloud regions, and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EKS is now available in Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now create and manage clusters in Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Fraud Detector introduces Cold Start model training for customers with limited historical data
Today, Amazon Fraud Detector (AFD) announced the launch of the Cold Start feature. Now customers can start training a sign-up or a transaction frauds detection model with minimal historical-data. Up to now, AFD customers were required to provide 10K+ labeled events with at least 400 examples of fraud to train a model. With the release of […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction from structured logs
Amazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction with up to 1 second granularity from structured logs using Embedded Metric Format (EMF). Customers can now provide an optional “StorageResolution” parameter within EMF specification logs with a value of 1 or 60 (default) to indicate the desired resolution (in seconds) of the metric. Read More for […]