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AWS – EBS direct APIs are now available in new AWS Europe and Asia Pacific Regions
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs in the AWS Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions to create EBS snapshots of their block storage data regardless of where it resides, including on-premises. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless introduces account-level vCPU-based service quota
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 service quota called Max concurrent vCPUs per account. This vCPU-based quota allows you to set […]
AWS – Validate AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) templates with CloudFormation Linter to speed up development
AWS CloudFormation announces support for CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint) in AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface (AWS SAM CLI). The cfn-lint tool validates your SAM JSON/YAML template against CloudFormation-based rules, and returns diagnostic error messages. With this launch, you can use an optional parameter —lint in sam validate command to run cfn-lint validations on your […]
AWS – Announcing SKU pricing rules for AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, customers can create SKU pricing rules in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC). An AWS SKU uniquely combines product (service code), Usage Type, and Operation for an AWS resource. Using SKU pricing rules, customers can change the rate for any resource running in their environment. For example, an AWS partner can use a SKU pricing […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now available in additional regions
AWS Elemental MediaTailor is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and US East (Ohio) regions. You may now configure and operate MediaTailor using the console or API endpoints within these new regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Microsoft Purview access policies for SQL Server 2022
Author policies that govern the access to Active Directory users directly from Azure to all your SQL Server 2022 data sources at scale. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview of Viewing SQL Server Databases via Azure Arc
Surfaces all the active databases and their configurations for each of the Arc-enabled SQL Servers in Azure. Read More for the details.
GCP – Get migrating in 2023: join our upcoming fireside chat featuring Forrester
Editor’s note: just looking to register for the fireside chat on January 31st? Here you go! You probably already know that cloud migration continues to be a huge priority for organizations across the globe. But what may surprise you is all the ways priorities, projects, and outcomes have changed in the last few years. For […]
GCP – Log Analytics in Cloud Logging is now GA
Solving big problems usually takes a combination of the right people and the right tools. SRE, DevOps, and IT operations teams in organizations both big and small have used Google Cloud’s built-in logging service, Cloud Logging, to troubleshoot faster, recognize trends easier, and scale operations more effectively. Additionally, customers have been building homegrown solutions that […]
GCP – A reference architecture for transforming insurance claims processing with Google Cloud
Transforming the customer experience of insurance claims processing is a key driver for transforming the insurance claims process itself. This needs a holistic approach to addressing different aspects of the claims processing workflow and modernizing the data that claims processing heavily relies on. Transforming claims processing can help reduce the manual touches from the process […]