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Azure – Public preview: Managed attributes in Microsoft Purview data catalog
Append organizational metadata to your technical assets by creating and applying managed attributes in the Microsoft Purview data catalog. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure Global Cloud
All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure Global Cloud from July 2022, are activated via azkms.core.windows.net, which points to two new KMS IP addresses, 20.118.99.224 and 40.83.235.53. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in four new regions
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data. Read More for the details.
GCP – Identity & Access management: Authentication with Cloud Identity
In security, the three “A”s of controlling access are Authentication (Who is the user?), Authorization (What is the user allowed to do?), and Auditing (What are they doing?) Going a bit deeper: Authentication (AuthN): Authentication is the process of identifying a user through a private form of verification (for example, a password, a certificate, a […]
AWS – Now programmatically manage primary contact information on AWS accounts
Today, we are making it easier for customers to view and update primary contact information on their AWS accounts using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS SDK. We previously released the Accounts SDK that enables customers to programmatically manage billing, operations, and security contacts for their accounts. Starting today, customers can use the […]
Azure – General availability: Microsoft Cost Details API for EA and MCA customers
Cost Details API is now generally available for use by EA and MCA customers. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports ChaosMesh and Litmus experiments
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports ChaosMesh and Litmus experiments for containerized applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Using the new Kubernetes custom resource action for AWS FIS, you can control ChaosMesh and Litmus chaos experiments from within an AWS FIS experiment, enabling you to coordinate fault injection workflows among multiple tools. […]
GCP – New 20+ pipeline operators for BQML
Today we are excited to announce the release of over twenty new BigQuery and BigQuery ML (BQML) operators for Vertex AI Pipelines, that help make it easier to operationalize BigQuery and BQML jobs in a Vertex AI Pipeline. The first five BigQuery and BQML pipeline components were released earlier this year. These twenty-one new, first-party, […]
GCP – Quick Access: Intelligence behind the Google Cloud’s new homepage
A few weeks ago, we announced the new homepage for Google Cloud, redesigned for simplicity, performance, and navigation. Today, we’d like to share a deeper insight into Quick Access, a new feature of Active Assist that powers this new streamlined homepage experience. Quick Access introduces intelligent shortcuts that reduce the average time it takes you […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Console adds ‘Verified Provider’ label for public AMIs
You can now use the ‘Verified Provider’ label on the EC2 Console to pick public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are owned by Amazon verified accounts. Previously, customers would need to check the owner IDs of AMIs that were publicly shared to identify the source of the AMI. IDs of verified sources were not always […]