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AWS – Amazon EC2 announces network bandwidth support in attribute-based instance type selection for Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet
Starting today, you can request EC2 instances based on your workload’s network bandwidth requirements through attribute-based instance type selection. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports specifying list of instance types to use in attribute-based instance type selection for Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet
Starting today, you can configure the set of instance types used when requesting EC2 capacity with attribute-based instance type selection. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS now supports new General Purpose gp3 storage volumes
Today, AWS announced the availability of next-generation General Purpose gp3 storage volumes for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon RDS gp3 volumes gives you the flexibility to provision storage performance independently of storage capacity, paying only for the resources you need. Every gp3 volume provides you the ability to select from 20 GiB to […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports monitoring of SPICE consumption by sending metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon QuickSight now supports monitoring of SPICE consumption by sending metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. QuickSight developers and administrators can use these metrics to observe and monitor SPICE consumption and proactively monitor if a QuickSight account is reaching its SPICE capacity limit which might result in failed dataset ingestions. This allows them to provide their readers […]

GCP – 4 more reasons to use Chrome’s cloud-based management
Millions of organizations use Chrome every day to keep their businesses productive and secure. However, many companies aren’t actively managing the browsers they deploy. Managing the browser is vital, because it allows you to customize it to the needs of your business, and help you protect against security risks, such as data loss and shadow […]

GCP – Best Practices for managing Vertex Pipelines code
Organizations are increasingly using machine learning pipelines to streamline and scale their ML workflows. However, managing these pipelines can be challenging when an organization has multiple ML projects and pipelines at different stages of development. To solve this, we need a way to build upon DevOps concepts and apply them to this ML-specific problem. In […]

GCP – Address Validation API is now generally available
Addresses are necessary to help find people and places, deliver goods, and in some cases, even to open bank accounts. Addresses with typos or misspellings can be difficult to spot. On the surface, addresses can seem simple and straightforward because we see and use them almost every day. But the reality is, addresses that are […]

AWS – Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Manchester
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the Vodafone 4G/5G network in Manchester, United Kingdom. Wavelength Zones are now available in 2 locations in the U.K, including the previously announced Wavelength Zone in London. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing Assured Workloads for Israel in Preview
In October, we announced the opening of a new Google Cloud region in Israel. The region, me-west1, joins our global network of cloud regions delivering high-performance, low-latency access to cloud services for customers of all sizes and across industries. As we support customers in this new region, we want to help provide the confidence that […]