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GCP – How Google Cloud and SAP solve big problems for big companies
With SAP Sapphire kicking off today in Orlando, we’re looking forward to seeing our customers and discussing how they can make core processes more efficient and improve how they serve their customers. One thing is certain to be top of mind – the global supply chain challenges facing the world today. It’s affecting every business […]
GCP – Cloud TPU VMs are generally available
Earlier last year, Cloud TPU VMs on Google Cloud were introduced to make it easier to use the TPU hardware by providing direct access to TPU host machines. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of TPU VMs. With Cloud TPU VMs you can work interactively on the same hosts where the […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 adds CloudWatch Events support for Amazon Machine Images
Amazon EC2 now emits notifications to Amazon CloudWatch Events for a variety of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) actions such as creation, registration and de-registration. With CloudWatch Events (CWE), you can establish rules that initiate programmatic actions in response to these changes. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing new workflow observability features for AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions now provides a new console experience for viewing and debugging your workflow executions that makes it easier to search, filter, and root cause issues in your executions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Monitor your Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus usage with Amazon CloudWatch usage metrics
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus usage metrics are now available in Amazon CloudWatch at no additional charge. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and […]
AWS – Announcing three new APIs for batch data retrieval in AWS IoT SiteWise
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports batch data retrieval from multiple asset properties with the launch of three new APIs that allow you to retrieve current values (BatchGetAssetPropertyValue), historical values (BatchGetAssetPropertyValueHistory), and aggregated values (BatchGetAssetPropertyAggregates) from AWS IoT SiteWise in a single API request. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Arc-enabled servers support for private endpoints
Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure private endpoints to connect your on-premises servers to Azure Arc privately. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure IoT Edge supports Debian Bullseye on ARM32v7
Debian is included in the Tier 1 OS support list for ARM32v7 devices. Official packages for Bullseye on ARM32v7 are now available on packages.microsoft.com. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS X-Ray is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS X-Ray in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug distributed production applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of […]
GCP – Minimalizing the mainframe
Minimalism —The concept, which involves freeing from clutter and, to put it colloquially, “stuff,”. Application modernization can really take a leaf out of the minimalism concept. Business applications have been developed for many decades in many languages and platforms. ‘Change being the only constant’ – these applications underwent many changes to support constantly changing business […]