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AWS – Amazon EC2 announces new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy for provisioning Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
Today, we are introducing a new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to help you optimize provisioning of Spot Instances via EC2 Auto Scaling, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet. The price and capacity optimized allocation strategy makes Spot allocation decisions based on both spare capacity availability and Spot Instance price. […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon SageMaker Model Training support for ml.trn1 instances
Amazon SageMaker training jobs now support ml.trn1 instances, powered by AWS Trainium chips, which are purpose built for high-performance ML training applications in the cloud. You can use ml.trn1 instances on SageMaker to train natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and recommender models across a broad set of applications, such as speech recognition, recommendation, fraud […]
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager increases the API Requests per Second limits
AWS Secrets Manager now supports higher request rates for the core set of API operations – GetSecretValue, DescribeSecret and ListSecrets. The request rate limits for GetSecretValue and DescribeSecret have been increased to 10,000 requests per second. The request rate of ListSecrets API operation has been increased to 100 requests per second. No action is required […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 5.7.40
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 5.7.40. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports restore of VMware workloads to Amazon EC2
AWS Backup now supports restoring VMware backups to Amazon EC2. This allows you to restore your VMware backups directly in EC2, as EC2 native instances. AWS Backup can restore to on-premises VMware, VMware CloudTM on AWS Outposts, VMware CloudTM on AWS, and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). AWS Backup also supports restoring virtual machines (VMs) at the […]
GCP – Migrate from Heroku Enterprise to Cloud Run while keeping devs and ops happy
Modern developers worldwide have grown accustomed to the comfort of writing code, pushing to a remote Git repository and having that code be deployed at an accessible URL without having to worry about how it is deployed. This was a workflow popularized by Heroku years ago which brought joy and productivity to developers even if […]
GCP – How data embassies can strengthen resiliency with sovereignty
Embassies have been havens for the people of countries they represent for hundreds of years, helping reduce some risks that their citizens can face when traveling and living abroad. The concept of reducing risk with an embassy has been extended to data in the digital world, made possible by the flexible, distributed nature of the […]
GCP – Cloud Functions vs. Cloud Run: when to use one over the other
Embracing serverless architectures help you bring solutions to market faster at lower cost with decreased management overhead than traditional approaches. Cloud Functions and Cloud Run are two such serverless compute products from Google Cloud, and customers often ask us “when does it make more sense to use Cloud Functions or Cloud Run?” Commerzbank AG is […]
GCP – Discover Elton and Los Angeles history using Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Rory Newton Dunn, Head of Digital, at Rocket Entertainment. He shares how they created an immersive map experience to celebrate Elton John’s final North American tour using Google Maps Platform. Los Angeles is where Elton John’s legendary career truly took flight and a place that feels like a second […]
GCP – Veterans Day: Q&A with Terradepth about mapping the ocean floor, the final frontier on Earth, with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: November 11th is Veterans Day—a day for us to recognize, celebrate, and honor military veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Today, Shannon Sullivan, Director, SCS Public Sector at Google, will be having a conversation with Terradepth and its founder to learn how they are using Google Cloud to grow their business and […]