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Azure – Public preview: Manage Azure Web Application Firewall policies in Azure Firewall Manager
Azure Firewall Manager now supports the ability to manage Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies for application delivery platforms, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door, at scale within a centralized place. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Conversational language understanding
Conversational language understanding includes multilingual transformer-based models as the underlying model architecture and results in significant accuracy improvements over its predecessor, LUIS. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines for AI
Perfect for a range of AI workloads, this new virtual machines series can give you a significant performance boost over our previous NC generation series. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance now available for purchase through resellers
AWS Storage Gateway is expanding the ways you can purchase the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance, and for the first-time enabling resellers to offer the appliance. Now you can procure the hardware appliance through the reseller of your choice, and leverage your existing purchasing agreements. Read More for the details.

AWS – Price reductions on Amazon EC2 instances running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) OS
We are excited to announce the following price reductions for Amazon EC2 instances running SLES. When you run SLES on Amazon EC2, you are charged one combined price for the Amazon EC2 infrastructure and the SUSE OS. Read More for the details.

GCP – Meet the startups joining Google for Startups Accelerator: Cloud
Startups are solving the world’s important challenges with agility, innovative technology, and determination, and Google Cloud is proud to support them. To help connect European founders building with Cloud to the people, products, and best practices they need to grow, we announced the first Google for Startups Accelerator: Cloud in Europe and Israel. This ten-week […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker supports incremental training for JumpStart models
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart helps you quickly and easily solve your machine learning problems with one-click access to (a) more than 300 popular model collections from TensorFlow Hub, PyTorch Hub, Hugging Face and Gluon CV, and (b) 18 end-to-end solutions that solve common business problems such as demand forecasting, fraud detection and document understanding. The available models […]

GCP – Collaborative research in immunology with the Allen Institute and Google Cloud
Previously in the background, immunology has become a mainstream topic in the past few years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Immunologists’ roles are challenging, as they need to collect and systematically analyze large amounts of biomedical data about the immune system itself, as well as clinical data to understand human health and disease progression. This […]

GCP – Google Cloud simplifies customer verification and benefits processing with Document AI for Identity cards
If you’ve opened an account at a bank, applied for a government benefit, or provided a proof of age document on an ecommerce website, chances are you’ve had to share a physical or digital copy of a Driver’s License or a passport as proof of your identity. For businesses or public sector organizations that need […]
GCP – Bringing the power of Google Meet to Google Duo users
Bringing the power of Google Meet to Google Duo users The past few years have accelerated and deepened our use of video communications to stay in touch with our friends and loved ones, learn new things, celebrate milestones, and even welcome new family members. To support the millions of users who rely on our technology […]