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Azure – General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Switzerland North
Reduce spending by storing cold data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Batch adds support for AWS PrivateLink
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the AWS Batch APIs from your virtual private cloud (AmazonVPC). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks. You can now manage your AWS Batch resources in your VPC using AWS PrivateLink and meet your organization’s security and compliance requirements. To […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Monitor and Azure Managed Grafana integrations
New Grafana integrations with Azure Monitor include the ability to pin Azure Monitor visualizations from Azure Portal to Grafana dashboards and new out-of-the-box Azure Monitor dashboards. Read More for the details.

GCP – First dedicated AI management and MLOps platform on Google Cloud Marketplace
Editor’s note: Prevision.io has built the first ever pay-as-you-go AI management platform that simplifies the machine learning project lifecycle while offering powerful analytics capabilities. Now available exclusively on Google Cloud Marketplace, users can experiment, build, deploy, and manage AI projects in the cloud in weeks—without having extensive data science knowledge. Similar to the momentum that […]

GCP – Announcing the Climate Innovation Challenge—grants to support cutting-edge earth research
At Google, we believe that when it comes to solving a problem as big and urgent as climate change, we get more done when we collaborate. From beekeepers in Germany to urban foresters in Los Angeles, we support the work of nonprofits, scientists, and organizations that are working to mitigate the impact of climate change […]

GCP – Is there a limit to Cloud VMs? A conversation
We published another episode of “VM End to End,” which is a series of curated conversations between a “VM skeptic” and a “VM enthusiast”. Every episode, join Brian, Carter, and a special guest as they explore why VMs are some of Google’s most trusted and reliable offerings, and how VMs benefit companies operating at scale […]

AWS – Configurable cipher suites now available for Amazon Aurora MySQL
You can now configure your database connections on Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition from an allowable list of ciphers. Configurable cipher suites help provide you with more security control over the connection encryption that your database server accepts. Read More for the details.

GCP – Automating income taxes with Document AI
In the United States, Tax Season descends upon the country every April, requiring millions of Americans to spend hours deciphering cryptic documents and performing complex math just to figure out what they owe. Wouldn’t it be grand if there was a way for a computer to take all the relevant documents and extract out exactly […]

AWS – Service Quotas is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
You can now use Service Quotas in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region to view and manage your service quotas at scale as your AWS workloads grow. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now delivers to Coralogix
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to Coralogix, enabling Coralogix users to ingest streaming data without having to manage applications or write code. Read More for the details.