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AWS – AWS announces changes to AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles permissions
AWS announces the retirement of IAM actions for AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles under aws-portal service prefix, purchase-orders:ViewPurchaseOrders, and purchase-orders:ModifyPurchaseOrders and is replacing them with fine-grained service specific actions. This launch gives AWS customers more control over access to Billing, Cost Management, and Account services. These new permissions will also provide a single […]
AWS – AWS WAF is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Starting today, AWS WAF is available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. This is the second region where AWS WAF is available in the Middle East, joining the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region and giving customers more choice and flexibility. Read More for the details.
GCP – Tips to get the most out of Google Cloud Documentation
As a Google Cloud practitioner, you typically spend a lot of time in the documentation pages to read up on the guides, commands, tutorials and more. The documentation team has introduced several features over the years to make it easier to be more productive while working with Google Cloud documentation. A few of these tips […]
GCP – Why retailers choose to build on Kubernetes
Retail organizations constantly face financial pressure to increase sales while maintaining profit margins. Digital commerce creates new opportunities and a more competitive landscape for retailers by allowing them to reach a global customer base online, but it also exposes them to competition from larger online retailers. To be successful in this environment, retailers must not […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces up to 3x faster ML model training time
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now delivers up to 3x faster machine learning (ML) model training time, enabling rapid prototyping and faster time-to-value for business outcomes. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G5g instances now available in Frankfurt region
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and featuring NVIDIA T4G Tensor Core GPUs are now available in Europe (Frankfurt). G5g instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 […]
Azure – General Availability: AzAcSnap 7 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
AzAcSnap Version 7 Release Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Switzerland North and Korea South
Now available in Korea South and Switzerland North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads. Read More for the details.
Azure – General Availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks
New integration with Azure Active Directory (AD) to export and import data to Azure Managed Disks improves security Read More for the details.
GCP – Run faster and more cost-effective Dataproc jobs
Dataproc is a fully managed service for hosting open-source distributed processing platforms such as Apache Hive, Apache Spark, Presto, Apache Flink, and Apache Hadoop on Google Cloud. Dataproc provides flexibility to provision and configure clusters of varying sizes on demand. In addition, Dataproc has powerful features to enable your organization to lower costs, increase performance […]