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Microsoft Releases Azure Ultra Disk Storage to General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage - a new Managed Disks offering, which delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads.
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Google and VMware Establish Partnership, Enabling VMware Migrations to Google Cloud Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced support for running VMware vSphere-based workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This capability is enabled through a partner solution by CloudSimple and leverages VMware’s software-defined data center (SDCC) technologies. Using this approach organizations can bridge their GCP cloud computing investments with their existing VMware investments.
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Amazon Opens a New Region in Bahrain – AWS Middle East
Recently, Amazon announced the opening of an AWS region in the Middle East. This new region is the first for AWS in the Middle East and located in Bahrain.
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Enabling Single Tenant Workloads in the Cloud, Microsoft Introduces Azure Dedicated Host
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced Azure Dedicated Hosts, a service that allows organizations to run Linux and Windows virtual machines on single-tenant physical servers. This service was introduced to address customer compliance and regulatory requirements. Organizations can also take advantage of Azure Hybrid Benefits which allows them to leverage existing software investments.
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Microsoft Releases a Preview of the Integration of Prometheus with Azure Monitor for Containers
Recently Microsoft announced the integration of Prometheus, a popular open-source metric monitoring solution and part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation, with Azure Monitor for containers. This integration is currently available in a preview stage for testing.
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Terraform 0.12 Release: New HCL Syntax, Improved Error Messages, and Upgrade Tooling
Terraform 0.12 release includes updates to the HCL, such as first-class expression syntax, value types, loops, dynamic blocks, and conditional expression improvements. Error messages now contain additional context, and the output to a terraform plan now renders in a more readable format. Terraform 0.12 isn't 100% backwards compatible, but comes with an upgrade and validation tool.
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Q&A on New App Hosting Cloud Provider, Render
Render is a new provider of web and app hosting, described by Render’s CEO as the “best of both worlds” between full scale cloud providers, such as AWS, and PaaS providers, such as Heroku.
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Amazon Releases Five New EC2 Bare Metal Instances: M5, M5d, R5, R5d, and Z1d
Amazon has announced the availability of five new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances. The new EC2 M5, M5d, R5, R5d, and z1d instances will provide applications with direct access to the Intel Xeon Scalable processor and memory resources of the underlying server.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery Enhancements
Last week, Microsoft announced several enhancements to their Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery services. The changes in the announcement include additional geographies for storing discovery and assessment metadata, along with additional supported options for migrations.
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Google Announces Cloud DNS Forwarding
In a recent blog post, Google has announced Cloud DNS forwarding, allowing resources, both in the cloud and on-premises, to find each other through DNS. These capabilities deliver the option to either implement Google DNS or one’s private authoritative server as a DNS provider.
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Alibaba Cloud Expands Their Presence in the EMEA Region with UK Data Centers
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, announced the opening of two new availability zones in the United Kingdom. With the addition of these availability zones, Alibaba is increasing its presence in the EMEA region.
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IBM Expands Availability Zones and Cloud Capabilities Globally
Last week, IBM announced a significant expansion of their cloud capabilities and an increase of the presence of availability zones across the globe. The announcements show the substantial investments IBM makes to compete with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in the cloud services market.
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OpsRamp Introduces an AIOps Inference Engine
Provider of a SaaS based IT operations management platform, OpsRamp, has announced OpsRamp 5.0, a new release featuring an artificial intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) inference engine for alerting and event correlation. The new release also includes a multi-cloud visibility dashboard.
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AWS EC2 Fleet: Manage Thousands of On-Demand and Spot Instances with One Request
Amazon announced EC2 Fleet, a new feature that gives customers a unique ability to create fleets composed of a combination of EC2 On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instances, by using a single API. Moreover, the customer can specify what capacity and instance-wise VM's it requires, and AWS will launch, manage, monitor and scale instances that they need, without writing any scaffolding code.
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Amazon Launches a New Cloud Security Service: AWS Firewall Manager
Amazon has launched a new service called AWS Firewall Manager, providing AWS customers a way to configure AWS Web Application Firewall rules across multiple accounts centrally. The AWS Firewall Manager is a part of Amazon’s recent launch of several services for security and compliance.