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Amazon EC2 Supports NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot
AWS recently announced the general availability of the UEFI Secure Boot and of NitroTPM, a virtual TPM module for EC2 instances based on the AWS Nitro System. The new features are designed for boot-process validation, key protection and digital rights management.
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Google Cloud Introduces PostgreSQL-Compatible AlloyDB for Enterprise Database Workloads
Google Cloud recently announced AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a managed PostgreSQL-compatible service targeting enterprise deployments. AlloyDB is a full-featured cloud database supporting atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability (ACID)-compliant transactions.
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AWS Lambda Now Has Support for Node.js 16 Runtime
Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 16 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).
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Mammoths Stumping in the Cloud Era: Meeting EU Regulations by Being Cloud Native and Cloud Agnostic
Financial institutions are famous for their conservative approach in multiple areas, technology being no exception. Many of them are still running mainframe solutions built a long time ago. But together with times, the banks are changing too: at KubeConEU mBank, a polish bank showed how it managed to marry Cloud Native and Cloud Agnotisc principles to also satisfy the EU regulation in the field.
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AWS Introduces Storage-Optimized I4i Instances for IO-Heavy Workloads
AWS recently introduced the EC2 I4i instance type for data-intensive storage and IO-heavy workloads requiring fast access to medium-sized datasets. The new instances can benefit high-performance real-time relational databases, distributed file systems, data warehouses and key-value stores.
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Google Cloud Introduces Media CDN for Content Delivery
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Media CDN, a content delivery network targeted to media and entertainment companies. The streaming platform supports advertising insertion and AI/ML analytics.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud TPU VMs
Last year Google introduced Cloud TPU Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide direct access to TPU host machines in preview. Today, Cloud TPU VMs are generally available, including the new TPU Embedding API, which can accelerate ML Based ranking and recommendation workloads.
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Google Releases its Distributed Cloud Edge Offering into General Availability
Last month Google announced the general availability of Google Distributed Cloud Edge, including Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliances. The product is part of the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a fully-managed hardware and software portfolio that allows organizations to run workloads at the edge.
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Full-Stack Observability with Grafana and Azure Monitor
Microsoft recently introduced Azure Managed Grafana in preview, including new Grafana integrations with Azure Monitor. With Azure Managed Grafana, customers can now view their Azure monitoring data in Grafana dashboards and have new out-of-the-box Azure Monitor dashboards.
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AWS Releases Their New Low-Code Development Tool Amplify Studio to General Availability
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Amplify Studio, a visual interface that simplifies front- and backend development for web and mobile applications. It extends the existing AWS Amplify service, a set of tools and features to help developers get started faster with configuring various AWS services to support their backend use cases such as user authentication.
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Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced that SageMaker Serverless Inference is generally available. Designed for workloads with intermittent or infrequent traffic patterns, the new option provisions and scales compute capacity according to the volume of inference requests the model receives.
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Amazon MSK Serverless Now Generally Available
AWS recently announced that Amazon MSK Serverless is now generally available. The serverless option to manage an Apache Kafka cluster removes the need to monitor capacity and automatically balances partitions within a cluster.
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Microsoft Rebrands its Data Governance Service to Microsoft Purview
Recently, Microsoft announced Microsoft Purview, a new product branding bringing together the Azure Purview data governance service with various Microsoft 365 compliance solutions.
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GitHub Codespaces Add Support for Microservices and Monorepo Projects
GitHub continues to extend its cloud-based development environment Codespaces, aiming to make it more flexible and increase developer productivity. Specifically, the latest release of Codespaces targets teams developing microservices or using a large monorepo.
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AWS Releases its Digital Twin Service IoT TwinMaker into General Availability
During the recent AWS Summit in San Francisco, AWS announced the general availability of its IoT TwinMaker service – AWS IoT TwinMaker.