Category: Cloud Offerings

Feed: What's New. P2 instances are ideal for compute-intensive applications that require high-performance GPU coprocessors and massive parallel floating point performance such as deep learning, computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, molecular modeling, genomics, and rendering workloads. P2 instances offer up to 16 NVIDIA Tesla® K80 GPUs, 192GB of total video memory, 40 thousand parallel processing cores yielding 70 teraflops of single precision floating point performance and over 23 teraflops of double precision floating point performance. P2 instance GPUs are connected to the same PCI fabric, reducing the latency of GPU to GPU transfers by up to 70%, and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Using CloudFormation templates, you can now create, update and delete DAX clusters, parameter groups, and subnet groups. There is no additional charge for AWS CloudFormation, beyond what you pay for DAX, DynamoDB and other AWS resources. For more information about AWS CloudFormation support, visit the DAX CloudFormation Template Reference documentation. DAX is currently available in US East (N. Virginia), EU (Ireland), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and US West (N. California) ... Read More

Feed: What's New. This Quick Start implements a high availability solution built with Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), using the Always On Availability Groups feature of SQL Server Enterprise edition. The Quick Start also deploys Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) to complement the high availability and disaster recovery features in the AWS Cloud. This update includes the following features:• SQL Server 2016 and license-included Amazon Machine Image (AMI) provided by Amazon.• Two options for the Active Directory implementation: You can use AWS Directory Service for Active Directory, or manage the EC2 ... Read More

Author: . Originally published by CIO. Cloud data centers are not static environments, pre-provisioned to run a known, finite set of workloads to support predictable demand. They are highly dynamic environments in which everything is changing all the time. At scale. Which makes automation critical to success. At least it will be when we have figured out how to do it... Behind the cloud: administration and management Cloud users see the Cloud as a set of services, SLAs and invoices. That is surely the point: I click on my Netflix movie or fire up a server on AWS, and I ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Abhishek Pathak. Diagnosing network connectivity and performance issues in the cloud can be a challenge as your network evolves in complexity. We are pleased to announce the preview of a new feature to check network connectivity in a variety of scenarios when using VM. The Azure Network Watcher Connectivity Check feature helps to drastically reduce the amount of time needed to find and detect connectivity issues in the infrastructure. The results returned can provide valuable insights to whether a connectivity issue is due to a platform or a potential user configuration. Network Watcher Connectivity Check ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. This is a guest post by Dillon Morrison at Looker. Looker is, in their own words, “a new kind of analytics platform–letting everyone in your business make better decisions by getting reliable answers from a tool they can use.” As the breadth of AWS products and services continues to grow, customers are able to more easily move their technology stack and core infrastructure to AWS. One of the attractive benefits of AWS is the cost savings. Rather than paying upfront capital expenses for large on-premises systems, customers can instead pay variables expenses for on-demand services. To further ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Matt Guanti. Want to provide users with single sign-on access to AppStream 2.0 using existing enterprise credentials? Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 3.0 can be used to provide single sign-on for Amazon AppStream 2.0 using SAML 2.0.You can use your existing Active Directory or any SAML 2.0–compliant identity service to set up single sign-on access of AppStream 2.0 applications for your users. Identity federation using SAML 2.0 is currently available in all AppStream 2.0 regions. This post explains how to configure federated identities for AppStream 2.0 using AD FS 3.0. Walkthrough After setting up ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Walter Harp. 14 great new cloud offerings were published to Azure Marketplace last month. Check ‘em out! – The Azure Marketplace Team Denodo Platform:  is a leading data virtualization product that provides agile, high performance data integration and data abstraction across the broadest range of enterprise, cloud and big data sources; exposes real-time data models for expediting the use by other applications and business users. Learn more on Azure Marketplace. Kinetica (BYOL):  is a GPU-accelerated, in-memory analytics database that delivers truly real-time response to queries on large, complex and streaming data sets: 100x faster performance ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Tuesday, August 22, 2017 By Alex Amato, Cloud Dataflow Software Engineer Recently, Google Cloud Dataflow added support for Stackdriver Error Reporting. Users can now view a report of errors that occurred within Cloud Dataflow jobs, including: A list of errors, with a summary error message. A count that indicates how many times each error occurred. A histogram that indicates when each error occurred. Stackdriver Error Reporting is a feature of Google Stackdriver, the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. In order for your organization to be prepared before a security event occurs, there are unique security visibility, and automation controls that AWS provides. Incident response does not only have to be reactive. With the cloud, your ability to proactively detect, react, and recover can be easier, faster, cheaper, and more effective.What is an incident? An incident is an unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service. Through tools such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, and AWS Config Rules, we track, monitor, ... Read More