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AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the South America (São Paulo) region
You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the AWS South America (São Paulo) Region. Deploying AppStream 2.0 in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience and helps support your local data residency obligations. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, and Graphics G4DN instances to meet […]
GCP – Optimizing learning experiences amid increasingly blurred lines between physical, digital classrooms
Classkick believes human-to-human interaction is the key driver to student learning. As it turns out, the educators agree that feedback and interaction strengthen learning experiences. Classkick was launched in a pre-COVID-19 world, when the education sector was already beginning to demand tools that could bridge the gap between digital and physical learning environments. The company […]
GCP – Power Matchmaking with Redis Enterprise via Google Cloud Marketplace
Have you ever played a multiplayer game where the players could have been better? This scenario is common and is likely not an ideal experience for anyone. Game developers try to ensure that when you play, your opponents are at least as good as you are. Accurately matching players is a requirement for multiplayer games […]
GCP – Why Focus on Symptoms, Not Causes?
“Users don’t care why something is not working, but that it is not working.” If we believe this to be true, why aren’t we monitoring what they care about? How did we get here? Let’s start with a traditional model, where Ops focuses on infrastructure, and we wait for customers to tell us something is […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for VMware vSphere tags
AWS Backup adds support for VMware vSphere tags, enabling you to protect your VMware virtual machines (VMs) using tag-based policies, simplifying data protection across your on-premises vSphere and AWS environments. This allows you to import your VMware vSphere tags to AWS, where they can be automatically associated with a backup plan via tag-based policies. Read […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds schedule-based network throttling for VMware
AWS Backup now supports schedule-based network bandwidth throttling for VMware. This allows you to optimize network bandwidth used for backups and restores between your VMware environment and AWS. You can throttle the network bandwidth used by the Backup gateway for VMware backups, based on a schedule you set on the Backup gateway. This enables you […]
AWS – Amazon Athena releases new connector for Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) and Apache Kafka
With Amazon Athena, you can run SQL queries on data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without the need to pre-process or move data to another storage solution. Starting today, you can use Athena to query real-time streaming data held in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka. […]
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor adds new fault tolerance checks
AWS Trusted Advisor now helps customers improve fault tolerance with new checks for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, and AWS CloudHSM. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated best practice checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security, and monitor service quotas. You can find […]
AWS – Amazon EKS launches automated provisioning and lifecycle management for Windows containers
AWS launches Amazon EKS managed node groups for Windows containers to automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of Windows nodes (running on Amazon EC2 instances) for EKS Kubernetes clusters. With this launch, Windows-based applications will automatically provision and register the Amazon EC2 instances that provide compute capacity. Now customers can create, automatically update, or terminate […]