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GCP – Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 5 ways to reduce costs with containers
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a new blog series we’re running this fall to answer common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, Google Cloud Product Manager Rachel Tsao explores how to save on compute costs with modern […]
Azure – Public preview: Encrypt storage account with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
Azure Storage now supports customer-managed keys using a key vault on a different Azure Active Directory tenant. Read More for the details.
GCP – Expanding the Google Cloud Ready – Sustainability initiative with 12 new partners
We introduced the Google Cloud Ready – Sustainability designation earlier this year to showcase those partners committed to help global businesses and governments accelerate their sustainability programs. These partners build solutions that enhance the capabilities and ease the adoption of powerful Google Cloud technologies, such as Google Earth Engine and BigQuery, allowing customers to leverage […]
Azure – General availability: Managed identity to connect Azure Cache for Redis to storage
Connect Azure Cache for Redis to storage accounts via managed identity established through Azure Active Directory to provide a more streamlined and secure process. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Workload Consolidation for Karpenter
Starting with v0.15.0, Karpenter will automatically consolidate Kubernetes cluster workloads onto new EC2 instances to help increase utilization and lower cluster compute costs. Karpenter is a flexible, high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler that helps improve application availability, operational overhead, and cluster compute utilization by launching new EC2 instances that are best fit to the scale, scheduling, […]
AWS – EBS Recycle Bin is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions
EBS Recycle Bin is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints to protect sensitive information. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Node.js 18 in Azure Functions
You can now use the latest features in Node.js 18 with Azure Functions. Read More for the details.
AWS – EBS Recycle Bin is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
EBS Recycle Bin is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. You can use Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs to recover from accidental deletions to meet business continuity needs. Previously, if you accidentally deleted a snapshot, you would have to roll back to a snapshot from an earlier point in time, […]
AWS – AWS Fargate announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images for Amazon ECS
AWS Fargate launches support for the Microsoft Windows Server 2022 runtime platform for applications running on Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS). This adds to the list of already supported Windows Server 2019 runtime platforms for AWS Fargate, and helps customers take advantage of the latest Windows features on AWS Fargate. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions adds 14 new intrinsic functions so you can process data more efficiently in workflows.
AWS Step Functions expands support for manipulation of your input and output data with the addition of 14 new intrinsic functions so you can simplify data processing, reduce calls to downstream services, and write less code. Step Functions is a low-code, visual workflow service that supports integrations with over 220 AWS services, 10,000 API actions, and now […]