{"id":21774,"date":"2020-12-03T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.navisite.com\/?p=21774"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T12:18:14","slug":"weekly-cloud-provider-news-aws-cloudformation-azure-files-premium-google-anthos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navisite.com\/blog\/weekly-cloud-provider-news-aws-cloudformation-azure-files-premium-google-anthos\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Cloud Provider News \u2013 AWS CloudFormation, Azure Files Premium, Google Anthos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, we highlight the latest cloud provider news from the industry\u2019s top providers. This week, AWS CloudFormation adds modules, Azure Files Premium Tier adds IOPS, and Google Anthos adds bare metal to open up workloads.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AWS <\/strong>announced that customers can now define their infrastructure and apps in <strong>AWS CloudFormation<\/strong> with new, reusable building blocks called <strong>modules<\/strong>. These modules can be stored locally in the CloudFormation Registry and encapsulate one or more resources and their respective configurations. This feature allows organizations to centralize CloudFormation documentation to help establish best practices. Learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/about-aws\/whats-new\/2020\/11\/announcing-modules-for-aws-cloudformation\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Microsoft <\/strong>has a new feature release in which all premium shares get <strong>additional<\/strong> baseline and burst <strong>input\/output per second (IOPS) at zero cost<\/strong>, providing better performance and lower deployment costs.\u00a0All storage accounts with premium tier storage now have access to an additional 400 IOPS, with smaller shares of 100GB being burstable with an increased 4,000 IOPS. This is particularly beneficial for workloads that need extra performance to handle spikes in traffic or sudden, unpredictable loads. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/updates\/more-iops-at-no-additional-cost-for-azure-files-premium-tier\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Google <\/strong>announced that <strong>Anthos on bare metal<\/strong> is now generally available. This feature opens up new possibilities for how, and where, customers run their workloads. Anthos gives customers an easier way to configure and manage microservices using Kubernetes, and Anthos on bare metal allows users to run Anthos anywhere while leveraging existing investments in physical hardware, networking, and storage. Get more details <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/topics\/hybrid-cloud\/anthos-on-bare-metal-is-now-ga\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any questions about these product updates and how they can optimize your environment, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:hello@navisite.com\">hello@navisite.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":21763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.7 (Yoast SEO v21.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weekly Cloud Provider News \u2013 AWS CloudFormation, Azure Files Premium, Google Anthos - Navisite<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Each week, we highlight the latest cloud provider news from the industry\u2019s top providers. 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