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Azure – Public Preview: Managed Certificate support for Azure API Management
Secure your custom domains with a free certificate provisioned, managed, and automatically renewed by Azure API Management. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Machine Learning Announcements – January 2022 General Availability Announcement
New features now available in General Availability include add multiple private endpoints for workspaces, and support for storage account IP firewall. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure SQL—General availability updates for late January 2022
General Availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Active geo-replication in enterprise tiers for Azure Cache for Redis
Connect Azure Cache for Redis to storage accounts via managed identity. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports the latest versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SAP HANA, S/4HANA, and BW/4HANA
AWS Launch Wizard now supports SAP S/4HANA 2021, SAP BW/4HANA 2021, SAP HANA SPS06, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)15 SP3. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Location Service enables request-based pricing for all customer use cases
Amazon Location Service now offers request-based pricing for all customer use cases, including those with asset-based applications. For instance, if a developer building a delivery application needs to find the positions (latitude/longitude) associated with delivery addresses, they can pay per address searched. With Amazon Location, there are no upfront fees, no required minimum commitments, and no long-term […]

AWS – Announcing matrix routing for Amazon Location Service
Today, Amazon Location Service added matrix routing, making it easier for customers to quickly calculate driving time and driving distance between multiple origins and destinations. With matrix routing, developers can use a single API request to reduce the latency associated with multiple routing calculations, allowing them to simplify their code, and improve the experience of their […]

GCP – Webhook, Pub/Sub, and Slack Alerting notification channels launched
When an alert fires from your applications, your team needs to know as soon as possible to mitigate any user-facing issues. Customers with complex operating environments rely on incident management or related services to organize and coordinate their responses to issues. They need the flexibility to route alert notifications to platforms or services in the […]

GCP – Creating custom notifications with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Run
The uniqueness of each organization in the enterprise IT space creates interesting challenges in how they need to handle alerts. With many commercial tools in the IT Service Management (ITSM) market, and lots of custom internal tools, we equip teams with tools that are both flexible and powerful. This post is for Google Cloud customers […]
GCP – Keep tabs on your tables: Cloud SQL for MySQL launches database auditing
If you manage sensitive data in your MySQL database, you might be obligated to record and monitor user database activity, especially if you work in a regulated industry. Although you could set up MySQL’s slow query log or general log to create an audit trail of user activity, these logs significantly impact database performance and […]