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GCP – Optimize and scale your startup – A look into the Build Series
At Google Cloud, we want to provide you with the access to all the tools you need to grow your business. Through the Google Cloud Technical Guides for Startups, leverage industry leading solutions with how-to video guides andresourcescurated for startups. This multi-series contains 3 chapters: Start, Build and Grow, which matches your startup’s journey: The […]
GCP – Deutsche Bank, Wake Technical Community College, and Google Cloud are building a cloud talent pipeline in North Carolina
The world is facing a talent shortage, affecting more than 1 billion jobs by 20301. While the talent shortage spans all digital skills, the battle for cloud talent is particularly acute – more than one third of tech leaders say professionals with cloud skills are the most challenging to find2 . The state of North […]
GCP – Helping South Bend residents build cloud computing skills
The city of South Bend, Indiana has announced they are working with Google Cloud to connect 500 local job seekers with no-cost access to Google Cloud Skills Boost through Upskill SB. This initiative will train, upskill, and certify residents in cloud computing skills to create pathways to technical jobs. As companies, nonprofits, and governments increasingly leverage […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless introduces account-level vCPU-based per-region quotas
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today we are introducing a new account-level vCPU-based quota. The account-level per Region vCPU-based quota allows you to control the maximum […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Workbench now supports JupyterLab notebooks
Today, Amazon Neptune announces support for JupyterLab 3 on Neptune notebooks to boost the productivity of developers and data scientists using the Neptune Workbench. With this update, you can now launch Neptune notebooks in the AWS Management console using JupyterLab to access a modern interactive development environment (IDE) complete with developer tools such as code […]
AWS – Nimble Studio now supports configurable persistent storage and new EBS volumes
Today, Amazon Nimble Studio announces persistent storage has moved from public preview to general availability. This means faster workstation startup times, and simplified workstation storage volume management for administrators. Additionally, Nimble Studio now supports configurable gp3 AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, providing up to a 20% lower price point per GB than existing gp2 volumes. […]
AWS – Amazon EKS Anywhere now supports single-node clusters on bare metal
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere single-node clusters on bare metal. With single-node Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters, the cluster management components run alongside your applications on a single bare metal server. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Regions of Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Osaka). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EKS Anywhere now supports cluster lifecycle automation with GitOps and IaC tools like Terraform
We are excited to announce support for full cluster lifecycle automation through GitOps or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform for Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A). Previously, the only mechanism for customers to perform full EKS-A cluster lifecycle operations such as provisioning, updates, and deletion was by using an Amazon command-line-interface (CLI) tool “eksctl”. Now, […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon EKS Anywhere on Nutanix
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on Nutanix with AHV Virtualization, which expands the choice of infrastructure options for customers running Kubernetes on-premises. Nutanix enhances the list of deployment options for Amazon EKS Anywhere customers, which already includes bare metal servers, VMware vSphere, and Apache […]