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Azure – General availability: Reservation administrator and reader roles in the Azure Portal
You can now assign reservation administrator and reader roles in the Azure Portal. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Log Analytics in China North 3 and China East 3
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for you to start collecting telemetry and analyzing your services for health and usage in China North 3 and China East 3. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2022 patch set update (PSU) for 12.1 and release updates (RU) for 19c & 21c
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the April 2022 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 19c and 21c. Read More for the details.

GCP – From NASA to Google Cloud, Ivan Ramirez helps top gaming companies reach new levels
Editor’s note: Ivan Ramirez, Gaming Team Lead, works in one of Google Cloud’s most dynamic, and least understood businesses, supporting some of the world’s biggest online gaming companies. He’s in a world of extreme potential, heart-stopping challenges, big teamwork, and managing scarce resources for the maximum outcome. And that’s before we get to the gaming. […]

GCP – SevenRooms serves up personalized hospitality, food, and beverage services with Google Cloud
Finding ways to increase customer loyalty and profitability in a post-COVID world is top of mind for hotels, bars, and restaurants. Unfortunately, many food and beverage services providers struggle to deliver the personalized experiences that keep guests coming back for more. The reality is that most traditional hospitality apps offer only limited insight into guest […]

GCP – Sharing is caring: How GPU sharing on GKE saves you money
Developers and data scientists are increasingly turning to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to run demanding workloads like machine learning, visualization/rendering and high-performance computing, leveraging GKE’s support for NVIDIA GPUs. In the current economic climate, customers are under pressure to do more with fewer resources, and cost savings are top of mind. To help, in July, […]

GCP – Scheduling a command in GCP using Cloud Run and Cloud Schedule
Google Cloud CLI makes it very quick and easy for engineers to get started with initial development on Google Cloud Platform and perform many common cloud tasks. The majority of the initial development experience is via the command line interface using tools like gsutil, gcloud, but getting the code to production requires writing ceremonial code […]

GCP – How to help ensure smooth shift handoffs in security operations
Editor’s note: This blog was originally published by Siemplify on Oct. 29, 2019. Much the same way that nursing teams need to share patient healthcare updates when their shift ends, security operations centers (SOC) need to have smooth shift-handoff procedures in place to ensure that continuous monitoring of their networks and systems is maintained. Without […]

AWS – Build AWS Config rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard
AWS Config now supports an easier way to author custom AWS Config rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard). With this release, users with limited programming experience can use Guard to define and review custom policies that check your resources have desired configurations. AWS Config rules are a way of creating and implementing compliance policies against […]
AWS – Amazon Connect schedule adherence, now available in preview.
Amazon Connect now includes the ability to report on agent schedule adherence, adding to the existing forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling capabilities already in preview. With schedule adherence, you can measure how closely agents follow their planned schedule, providing insights that help you take action to improve agent productivity and customer satisfaction. For example, if […]