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Azure – General availability: Azure API Management updates- October 2021
Azure API Management is now available with new updates such as support for managed identity authentication for communication with Application Insights, ability to import Container App as an API and more. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Translate Now Extends Support for Active Custom Translation to all language pair combinations
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Active Custom Translation (ACT) to customize your translation between any currently supported languages. For example, you can now use ACT between German and French. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Sweden
Azure is now available from our newest sustainable datacenter region Sweden Central. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Run Command – Execute PowerShell or shell scripts on Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
The updated Run Commands are now management orientated, allows to run multiple scripts, track their progress and define Run Command resources in ARM templates to automate VM deployments. Read More for the details.

Azure – East Asia Availability Zones now generally available
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in the East Asia region. These three new zones provide you with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.

GCP – Bare Metal Solution launches its second Sydney location
We’re excited to announce the launch of a second zone in Sydney for Bare Metal Solution (BMS) in order to bring BMS to our customers around the world. With state of the art hardware certified for enterprise applications, BMS is the best place to run your Oracle workloads with ultra-low latency to Google Cloud. When […]

GCP – Export Google Cloud data into Elasticsearch with Dataflow templates
At Google Cloud, we’re focused on solving customer problems while supporting a thriving partner ecosystem. Many of you use third-party monitoring solutions to keep a tab on your multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments, be it for IT operations, security operations, application performance monitoring, or cost analysis. At the same time, you’re looking for a cloud-native […]

GCP – Debunking myths about Python on Dataflow
For many developers that come to Dataflow, Google Cloud’s fully managed data processing service, the first decision they have to make is which programming language to use. Dataflow developers use the open-source Apache Beam SDK to author their pipelines, and have several choices for language to use: Java, Python, Go, SQL, Scala, and Kotlin. In […]

GCP – Faster time to value with Data Analytics Design Patterns
Companies today are inundated with vast amounts of data from various sources. This overwhelming amount of data is meant to benefit the company, but often leaves data teams feeling overwhelmed, which can create data bottlenecks and result in a slow time to value. In fact, only twenty seven percent of companies agree that data and […]
GCP – Sowing the seeds of ethical AI: 4 tasks to stay on track
The future of AI is better AI—designed with ethics and responsibility built in from the start. This means putting the brakes on AI-driven transformation until you have a well-functioning strategy and process in place to ensure your models deliver fair outcomes. Failing to recognize this imperative is a threat to your bottom line. The following […]