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Azure – Generally available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift new regions
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in West Central US, Australia Central, and Sweden Central. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now supports autoscaling of inference units
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (AutoML) service that allows customers to build custom computer vision models to detect objects and scenes specific to their business without in-depth machine learning expertise. Starting today, Custom Labels can automatically scale inference units of a trained model based on customer workload. This reduces model inference […]

GCP – A visual tour of Google Cloud certifications
Interested in becoming Google Cloud certified? Wondering which Google Cloud certification is right for you? We’ve got you covered. Check out the latest#GCPSketchnote illustration, a framework to help you determine which Google Cloud certification is best suited to validate your current skill set and propel you toward future cloud career goals. Follow the arrows to […]

GCP – Join us for a show-and-tell edition of Google Cloud Security Talks
If you’re new to Security Talks, you should know that this program is part of an ongoing series where we bring together experts from the Google Cloud security team, including the Google Cybersecurity Action Team and Office of the CISO, and the greater industry to share information on our latest security products, innovations, and best […]

GCP – Empowering everyday innovation to build a more adaptive business
Innovation is often associated with big wins: increasing a competitive advantage, developing a new product, or disrupting a category. But these outcomes are almost always enabled by advancements that occur on a smaller scale—in the ways organizations regularly carve out time for creative thinking, experiment with processes, and deploy technology to collaborate. This approach to […]

Azure – General availability: Private endpoint network security group support
Azure private endpoint support of network security groups is now generally available in most public regions. Read More for the details.

GCP – Simplify model serving with custom prediction routines on Vertex AI
The data received at serving time is rarely in the format your model expects. Numerical columns need to be normalized, features created, image bytes decoded, input values validated. Transforming the data can be as important as the prediction itself. That’s why we’re excited to announce custom prediction routines on Vertex AI, which simplify the process […]

AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/3 powered by QUIC
Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP version 3 (HTTP/3) requests over QUIC for end user connections. HTTP/3 uses QUIC, a user datagram protocol (UDP) based, stream-multiplexed, secure transport protocol that combines and improves upon the capabilities of existing transmission control protocol (TCP), TLS, and HTTP/2. HTTP/3 offers several benefits over previous HTTP versions, including faster response times […]

AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise now supports bulk import of historical measurement data
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports bulk import of historical measurements from sensors with the launch of three new APIs. The new bulk import APIs help customers to ingest historical data from their operations stored in diverse systems such as historians and time series databases in AWS IoT SiteWise. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports M6i, R6i and R5b instances in additional regions
Amazon RDS for SQL Server expands support for M6i, R6i and R5b instances in additional AWS regions. M6i instances are available today in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. R6i instances are available today in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), […]