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Azure – Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Qatar Central
Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads, now available in Qatar Central Azure. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure China Cloud
All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure China Cloud after December 15, 2022, will be activated via azkms.core.chinacloudapi.cn, which points to two new KMS IP addresses, 159.27.28.100 and 163.228.64.161. Read More for the details.
GCP – No workload left behind: Extending Anthos to manage on-premises VMs
We are pleased to announce general availability of virtual machine (VM) support in Anthos. VM support is available on Anthos for bare metal (now known as Google Distributed Cloud Virtual). Customers can now run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform in their data center or at the edge. With VM support […]
GCP – Deploy OCI artifacts and Helm charts the GitOps way with Config Sync
One principle of GitOps is to have the desired state declarations as Versioned and Immutable, where Git repositories play an important role as the source of truth. But can you have an alternative to a Git repository for storing and deploying your Kubernetes manifests via GitOps? What if you could package your Kubernetes manifests into […]
GCP – Jason Wellman is bullish on Cloud’s ability to transform healthcare – here’s why
Editor’s note: As a Manager in the Infrastructure Practice of the Cloud Professional Services Organization, Jason Wellman has had a front row seat to Google’s computing odyssey over the past 15+ years. Today, he supports Healthcare & Life Sciences customers by helping them tap into Google Cloud’s capabilities and digitally transform. Often, he says, success […]
Azure – On 1 October 2025, the Log Analytics alert API in Azure Monitor will be retired
On 1 October 2025, the Log Analytics alert API in Azure Monitor will be retired. Read More for the details.
GCP – Accelerate migration from self-managed object storage to Cloud Storage
Customers want to leverage Google Cloud Storage for its simplicity, scalability, and security. But migrating 100s of TB of data from a self-managed object storage is complicated. Writing and maintaining scripts that use resources effectively during transfer without compromising on security can take months. To accelerate and simplify this migration, Storage Transfer Service recently announced […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now delivers a faster Cluster Auto Scaling experience for scale-in events
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has improved Amazon ECS Capacity Providers to deliver a faster Cluster Auto Scaling experience for scale-in events. Amazon ECS now scales-in excess capacity at a much faster rate, which helps you improve utilization of your infrastructure and saves compute costs. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Batch extends the job report retention period from 24 hours to 7 days
AWS Batch has increased the job report retention period from 24 hours to 7 days. This means that you can now query the details for AWS Batch jobs that were completed up to 7 days ago. With this longer retention period, you no longer need to worry about jobs disappearing after a day. You can […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.5.17, 10.4.26, 10.3.36
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.5.17, 10.4.26 and 10.3.36. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. […]