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GCP – How Deutsche Bank is building cloud skills at scale
Deutsche Bank (DB) is the leading bank in Germany with strong European roots and a global network. DB was eager to reduce its workload for managing legacy infrastructure, so that their engineering community could instead focus on modernizing their financial service offerings. The bank’s desire for solutions that could dynamically scale to meet demand and […]
GCP – Google Cloud and HashiCorp deliver a more efficient approach for Cloud Support Services
Cloud customers of all sizes require a means to reduce unplanned downtime, scale, and increase productivity while extracting the optimal value from their cloud environments. According to a leading cloud analyst, a majority of today’s businesses operate multi-cloud environments, so essential support services must also be prepared to efficiently address complex cloud environments to meet […]
GCP – Securing Cloud Run Deployments with Binary Authorization
Running applications and workloads in containers is becoming a standard practice for most organizations, especially organizations running in the cloud. This is due to the many benefits of designing applications as microservices. These benefits include increased scalability, better resiliency, faster deployments etc. As a result of this new ability to develop and push features faster, […]
AWS – EC2 High Memory instances with 18TiB and 24TiB of memory are now available with On-Demand and Savings Plan purchase options
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TiB (u-24tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region and high Memory instances with 18TiB (u-18tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. These instances give customers greater flexibility for instance usage and procurement – customers can […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL 2.11 with R6i instance support is generally available
Aurora MySQL 2.11, compatible with MySQL 5.7, is now generally available. Aurora MySQL 2.11 includes security updates and also supports R6i instances powered by 3rd generation Xeon Scalable processors. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS DataSync adds support for self-signed certificates
AWS DataSync now supports the use of self-signed certificates when connecting to object storage locations via HTTPS. When configuring an object storage location, you can specify a self-signed X.509 (.pem) certificate that the DataSync agent will use to secure the TLS connection to your self-managed object storage server. With this launch, you can now configure […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker adds eight new Graviton-based instances for model deployment
Amazon SageMaker expands access to eight new Graviton2 and Graviton3-based machine learning (ML) instance families so that customers have more options for optimizing their cost and performance when deploying their ML models on SageMaker. Now, customers can use ml.c7g, ml.m6g, ml.m6gd, ml.c6g, ml.c6gd, ml.c6gn, ml.r6g, and ml.r6gd for Real-time and Asynchronous Inference model deployment options. […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now enables customers to cost effectively host 1000s of GPU models using Multi Model Endpoint
Amazon SageMaker Multi-Model Endpoint (MME) is fully managed capability of SageMaker Inference that allows customers to deploy thousands of models on a single endpoint and save costs by sharing instances on which the endpoints run across all the models. Until today, MME was only supported for machine learning (ML) models which run on CPU instances. […]
AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – CDK For Kubernetes (CDK8s) announces general availability of CDK8s+ and manifest validation support
CDK For Kubernetes Plus (CDK8s+) is a multi-language class library for defining Kubernetes applications using high level intent based constructs. Customers defining Kubernetes application indicate that maintainability of Kubernetes manifests is challenging; CDK8s+ aims to lower the entry barrier and improve maintainability of Kubernetes manifests by offering a hand crafted construct for each core Kubernetes […]