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Google Compute Engine Future Reservations in Public Preview
Google recently introduced a new future reservation feature in public preview for its Compute Engine, allowing users to request compute capacity for a future date.
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New Google Cloud H3 Virtual Machine Series for High-Performance Computing Workloads in Preview
Recently Google launched a new H3 Virtual Machine (VM) Series designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. The series of VMs are available in public preview for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) users and offers 88 cores (Simultaneous multi-threading disabled) and 352 GB of memory.
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Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex Instances Now Available for General-Purpose Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances, equipped with custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Sapphire Rapids). The Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances are instance types intended for general-purpose workloads providing a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources.
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First Amazon EC2 Instances with Graviton3E Processors Now GA
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the C7gn and the Hpc7g instances, both using the new Graviton3E processors. The C7gn instances are designed for network-intensive workloads while the Hpc7g instances are tailored for high-performance computing ones.
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EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint Enables Secure Connectivity between Public and Private Networks
AWS recently announced Amazon EC2 Instance Connect (EIC) Endpoint, a new feature that allows users to connect securely to their instances and other Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resources from the Internet.
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Microsoft Adds Support for Pod Sandboxing to Azure Kubernetes Service
Microsoft has released, in preview, support for pod sandboxing in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Available within all Azure regions for a subset of Azure VM sizes, pod sandboxing provides an isolation boundary between the container application and the shared kernel and compute resources of the container host.
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AWS Releases New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) EC2 Instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the release of new Graviton3-based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 instances, providing customers with enhanced performance and cost savings.
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Microsoft’s New Memory Optimized Ebsv5 VM Sizes in Preview Offer More Performance
Microsoft recently announced two additional Memory Optimized Virtual Machines (VM) sizes, E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5, to the Ebsv5 VM family developed with the NVMe protocol providing performance up to 260,000 IOPS and 8,000 MBps remote disk storage throughput.
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Fermyon Built a WebAssembly Cloud to Push Serverless Microservices Beyond Containers
At KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2022, Fermyon launched its microservice-oriented platform for WebAssembly apps, called Fermyon Cloud, which is now available in open beta.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices
During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) and Arc-enabled servers (the company’s multi-cloud management solution).
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Google Distributed Cloud Virtual Now Supports Virtual Machines
Recently Google announced the general availability of virtual machine (VM) support in Anthos for bare metal, also known as Google Distributed Cloud Virtual (GDC), which will allow customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform in their data center or at the edge.
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Google Brings Compute Engine Integration to Cloud Code
Recently Google added a new integration in Cloud Code with its Compute Engine service (GCE) to make it easier for developers to manage their frequently used virtual machines in the IDE, view details about them, connect to them over SSH, upload application files, and view their logs.
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Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-Based Processors Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. In addition, the Arm-based virtual machines can be included in Kubernetes clusters managed using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
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Virtual Machine Threat Detection in Google Security Command Center Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) as a built-in service in Security Command Center Premium, which can detect if hackers attempt to mine cryptocurrency in a company's cloud environment.
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Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model
AWS recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. Organizations can now pay a per-user subscription fee for fully compliant AWS-provided Visual Studio licenses.