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AWS – Amazon Lightsail containers now supports deploying images from Amazon ECR private repositories
Amazon Lightsail now supports creating deployments for Lightsail container services using the container images on Amazon ECR private repositories. This launch will enable you to run containers with the simplified experience of Lightsail while utilizing the images you may already have in your private ECR repositories, thus enabling greater portability. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports SQL Server deployments using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS Launch Wizard announces support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Now you can use a simple console wizard to deploy SQL Server FCI on Amazon EC2 with FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the shared storage. This feature will save you time and effort replacing a […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports encryption of data in transit
Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports encryption of data in transit using Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.2. When using encryption in transit, all network traffic between your clients and Memcached cluster are encrypted. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached 1.6.12
Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached has added support for Memcached version 1.6.12. This version is a cumulative update and contains all changes and improvements between version 1.6.6 to 1.6.12. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Enhanced IPv6 functionality for MultiValue profiles in Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager now enables you to specify minimum children property separately for IPv4 and IPv6 endpoints for MultiValue profiles. Read More for the details.
GCP – Eliminate hotspots in Cloud Bigtable
We’ve recently improved Cloud Bigtable’s observability by allowing customers to monitor and observe hot tablets. We now provide customers access to real-time hot tablets data through the Cloud Bigtable Admin API and gcloud command-line tool. In this post, we’ll present how hot tablets observability can be used in real world use cases to help customers […]
AWS – Announcing preview of Amazon EC2 P4de GPU instances for ML training and HPC
We are excited to announce preview of Amazon EC2 P4de instances, our latest GPU-based instances that provide the highest performance for machine learning (ML) training and High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications such as object detection, semantic segmentation, natural language processing, recommender systems, seismic analysis, and computational fluid dynamics. Read More for the details.
GCP – Directing Costa Coffee’s customers to the nearest hot cup of coffee with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Gordon Lucas, Global Head of Digital Engineering at Costa Coffee, explains how Google Maps Platform helps direct customers to each of its 4,000 plus Costa Coffee shops across the world, as well as streamline payments, and optimize deliveries. When brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa opened the first Costa Coffee in central London in […]
GCP – Introducing Network Analyzer: One stop shop to detect service and network issues
With networking at the foundation of all cloud deployments and business processes, proactively maintaining network health is mission-critical. The cloud is powerful and dynamic, but can sometimes feel complex, as customers often encounter network issues from unintentionally deploying suboptimal or error-prone configurations. For example, organizations may deploy changes that unknowingly introduce misconfigurations, contradict best practices, […]
GCP – Monitoring transaction ID utilization using Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL metrics
PostgreSQL uses transaction IDs (also called TXIDs or XIDs) to implement Multi-Version Concurrency Control semantics (MVCC). The PostgreSQL documentation explains the role of XIDs as follows: PostgreSQL’s MVCC transaction semantics depend on being able to compare transaction ID (XID) numbers: a row version with an insertion XID greater than the current transaction’s XID is “in […]