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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 […]

AWS – Amazon MQ adds AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) support for RabbitMQ brokers
Amazon MQ now supports the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to create and manage keys for at-rest encryption of customer data for RabbitMQ brokers. Amazon MQ handles the encryption and decryption seamlessly, so you don’t have to change your applications to access your data. When you create a broker, you can now select the […]

AWS – Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Jobs API to support bulk import in Azure Digital Twins
Public preview for bulk import support for Azure Digital Twins Read More for the details.