Category: Cloud Offerings

Feed: Recent Announcements. Additional AWS Solutions Implementations offerings are available on the AWS Solutions page, where customers can browse common questions by category to find answers in the form of succinct Solution Briefs or comprehensive Solution Implementations, which are AWS-vetted, automated, turnkey reference implementations that address specific business needs.  ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Noelle Walsh. Earlier this year, we made a commitment to shift to 100 percent renewable energy supply in our buildings and datacenters by 2025. On this journey, we recognize that how we track our progress is just as important as how we get there. Today, we are announcing that Microsoft will be the first hyperscale cloud provider to track hourly energy consumption and renewable energy matching in a commercial product using the Vattenfall 24/7 Matching solution for our new datacenter regions in Sweden, which will be available in 2021. Vattenfall and Microsoft are also announcing ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. ACT produces custom-translated output without the need to build and maintain a custom translation model. With other custom translation products, customers spend a lot of time and money on overhead expenses to manage and maintain various instances of both the customer data and the custom translation model for each language pair. With ACT, Amazon Translate will use your preferred translation examples as PD to customize the translation output. You can update your PD as often as needed to improve the translation quality without having to worry about retraining or managing custom translation models. Currently, ACT is available ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you attach multiple network interfaces when launching EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Previously, customers had to write custom scripts and run lifecycle hooks to attach multiple network interfaces. You can now define multiple network interfaces in a launch template and your Auto Scaling group will automatically attach them to instances as they launch.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD.   ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. During self-enrollment, users can register any device from the available MFA methods enabled by their administrator. After completing registration, users have the option to give their newly enrolled MFA device a friendly name, after which AWS SSO redirects the user to their original destination. Administrators can enable any supported MFA method, including one-time password (OTP) based authenticator apps, such as Google Authenticator, FIDO-enabled security keys like YubiKey, or built-in authenticators for Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS platforms. By requiring MFA self-enrollment, you can ensure compliance and simplify administrator tasks such as enrolling and distributing MFA devices, or ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The AWS Snowball service is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS Snowball, a member of the AWS Snow Family, is an edge computing, data migration, and edge storage device that comes in two options. Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices provide 80 TB of Amazon S3 object storage and optional compute with 40 vCPUs. They are well suited for local storage and large-scale data transfer. Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices provide 52 vCPUs, 7.68 TB of NVMe SSD storage, 42 TB of HDD storage, 256 GB of RAM, and an optional GPU for use cases ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS CodeArtifact is a managed artifact repository service that makes it easier for organizations to securely store, publish, and share software packages used in their development process. This launch adds NuGet to CodeArtifact’s existing support for npm (JavaScript, TypeScript), Maven (Java, Kotlin, Scala) and PyPI (Python). Popular .NET tools, including the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, the .NET Core CLI, and the NuGet CLI, can be used to publish, download, and search for NuGet packages in AWS CodeArtifact repositories. Developers using Visual Studio can use the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio to authenticate to a CodeArtifact repository. Developers ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS License Manager allows administrators to create customized licensing rules in license configurations to emulate the terms of their vendor agreements. Administrators can use License Manager to enforce these rules by attaching license configurations to their Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Administrators can now attach license configurations to their AMIs to make the enforcement effective across all their AWS accounts. License Manager evaluates licensing rules at the time of instance launch from AMIs to prevent overages and notify administrators in an event of any licensing rule violation. License Manager also allows administrators to track instance launches from AMIs ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS announces the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, a fully managed, integrated, and pay-as-you-go container monitoring and analytics service for CloudWatch in AWS GovCloud (US). CloudWatch Container Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your container metrics, Prometheus metrics, application logs, and performance events through automated dashboards in the CloudWatch console. These dashboards summarize the performance and availability of clusters, nodes or EC2 instances, services, tasks, pods, and containers running on Amazon Elastic Containers (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Fargate, and Kubernetes.   ... Read More