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AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.34
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.8.34, which includes several fixes to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.30. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational burden by using Amazon […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now allows you to specify environment variables for your tuning jobs
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. Previously, you could only specify environment variables for your algorithm runtime in your SageMaker Training jobs, but not in your tuning jobs. Starting today, you have the flexibility to […]

Azure – Generally available: Indirect enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing
Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for indirect enterprise agreement customers) Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing comprehensive controls management with AWS Control Tower
Today we are excited to announce the launch of comprehensive controls management in AWS Control Tower, a set of new features that enhances AWS Control Tower’s governance capabilities. You can now programmatically implement controls at scale across your multi-account AWS environments within minutes, so you can more quickly vet, allow-list, and begin using AWS services. […]

AWS – Announcing runtime management controls for AWS Lambda
Today, AWS announces the general availability of runtime management controls for AWS Lambda. The operational simplicity of automatic runtime updates is one of the features customers most like about Lambda. This release provides customers running critical production workloads with more visibility and control over when runtime updates are applied to their functions. Read More for […]

Azure – General availability: Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code
Mounting Azure Storage File share as a network share in Windows code (non-container) in App Service is now generally available. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints
Application security groups (ASGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available. Read More for the details.

GCP – Scaling machine learning inference with NVIDIA TensorRT and Google Dataflow
A collaboration between Google Cloud and NVIDIA has enabled Apache Beam users to maximize the performance of ML models within their data processing pipelines, using NVIDIA TensorRTand NVIDIA GPUs alongside the new Apache Beam TensorRTEngineHandler. The NVIDIA TensorRT SDK provides high-performance, neural network inference that lets developers optimize and deploy trained ML models on NVIDIA […]

GCP – How to plan your SQL Server migration to Cloud SQL
A SQL Server DBA has many options for transferring data from one SQL Server instance to a new environment – those options can be overwhelming. This blog aims to help you decide what option you might want to choose for your specific migration scenario. We’ll walk through several steps for deciding on a migration plan: […]
GCP – Transforming customer experiences with modern cloud database capabilities
Editor’s note: Six customers, across a range of industries, share their success stories with Google Cloud databases. From professional sports leagues to kidney care and digital commerce, Google Cloud databases enable organizations to develop radically transformative experiences for their users. The stories of how Google Cloud Databases have helped Box, Credit Karma, Davita, Forbes, MLB, […]