#29. What happened on cloud last week

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AWS

1. The next generation of Amazon EC2 T3 Instances has been introduced [1] 🎉
2. Amazon Lightsail added two new memory options, 16GB and 32GB RAM, to its lineup [2]
3. Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) now supports running containers on GPU-enabled EC2 instances [3]

MS Azure

1. Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 now generally available in France and Australia [4]
2. DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) for Linux VMs now generally available [5]

DPDK offers a fast user space packet processing framework for performance intensive applications that bypass the VM’s kernel network stack. It is now generally available in all Azure regions.

Google Cloud Platform

1. Cloud HSM is available in beta [6] 🎉
2. PHP 7.2 runtime is now available on the App Engine standard environment [7]

References

1. Introducing Amazon EC2 T3 instances.
2. Amazon Lightsail announces 50% price drop and two new instance sizes.
3. Amazon EKS supports GPU-enabled EC2 instances.
4. Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 now generally available in France and Australia.
5. DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) for Linux VMs now generally available.
6. Introducing Cloud HSM beta for hardware crypto key security.
7. Introducing PHP 7.2 runtime on the App Engine standard environment.