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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure ND A100 V4 Cloud GPU Instances
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure ND A100 v4 Cloud GPU instances—powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These Virtual Machines (VMs) are targeted at customers with high performance and demanding workloads like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads.
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AWS Announces General Availability of New Application Migration Service
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is a new service that enables organizations to move applications to AWS without making changes to the applications, their architecture, or the migrated servers. The public cloud provider announced the general availability of this service.
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Google Announces the General Availability of A2 Virtual Machines
Recently, Google announced A2 Virtual Machines (VMs)' general availability based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine. According to the company, the A2 VMs will allow customers to run their NVIDIA CUDA-enabled machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) scale-out and scale-up workloads efficiently at a lower cost.
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How Spotify Leverages Paved Paths and Common Tooling to Improve Productivity
Maria Jernström and Jason Palmer, two product managers at Spotify, shared how the company enables their development teams to operate quickly and in alignment. The Platform Developer Experience tribe builds CI/CD tools, product creation tooling, and paved paths with a focus on automating common processes.
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Google Announces VM Manager, a Suite of Infrastructure Management Tools
In a recent blog post, Google announced VM Manager, a suite of infrastructure management tools to maintain large fleets of Compute Engine VMs more efficiently.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Stack HCI
In a recent Azure blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Stack HCI, the new subscription service for hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) from Microsoft Azure. With the GA of Azure Stack HCI, Microsoft brings together the familiarity and flexibility of on-premises virtualization with powerful new hybrid capabilities.
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Google Announces General Availability of Anthos on Bare Metal
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability (GA) of Anthos on bare metal, a deployment option to run Anthos on physical servers, deployed on an operating system provided by the customer, without a hypervisor layer. With Anthos on bare metal, customers can leverage their existing hardware, OS, and networking infrastructure investments.
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How x86 to arm64 Translation Works in Rosetta 2
Along with its plan to transition their Macintosh line from Intel CPUs to its own CPUs, dubbed Apple Silicon, Apple announced Rosetta 2, a binary translation software that aims to smooth out the process. Thanks to Rosetta 2, most x86 programs will be able to execute after an initial translation step.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Space to Further Push the Boundaries of Cloud Computing
Recently Microsoft launched its Azure Space initiative as a further push of cloud computing towards space. This initiative by the public cloud vendor consists of several products and partnerships to position Azure as a critical player in the space- and satellite-related connectivity and compute part of the cloud market.
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Microsoft Innovates Its Azure Multi-Cloud, Multi-Edge Hybrid Capabilities
During the recent Ignite virtual conference, Microsoft announced several updates for their Azure multi-cloud and edge hybrid offerings. These updates span from security innovations to new edge capabilities.
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Google Announces New Features Making It Easier to Manage Windows Server VMs
Recently Google announced several new features such as boot-screen diagnostics, auto-upgrade for Windows Server, new diagnostics tooling, and improved license reporting. Most of these updates are available in beta and intend to simplify troubleshooting problems, upgrading, and managing the license requirements of Windows workloads running on Google Cloud (GCP).
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AWS Launches Low-Cost Burstable T4g Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2
AWS provides various Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, including a broad choice of Graviton2 processor-based, which allow customers to optimize their workloads on performance and costs. The latest addition to the Graviton2-based instances is the low cost burstable general-purpose T4g instances.
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Google Announces General Availability of CPU Overcommit for Sole Tenant Nodes
In a recent blog post, Google announced that CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes is generally available. With CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes, customers can over-provision their dedicated host virtual CPU resources by up to two times.
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AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Step Functions State Machines
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) recently gained support for AWS Step Functions state machines. The new AWS::Serverless::StateMachine resource type enables developers to define state machines within a SAM template or in a separate file so that they can provision workflow orchestration as an integrated part of serverless applications.
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Google Launches Confidential VMs in Beta on Its Cloud Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced Confidential VMs, a new type of virtual machine that makes use of the company’s work around confidential computing to ensure that data isn’t just encrypted at rest but also while it is in memory.