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AWS – AWS announces a new capability to switch license types for Windows Server and SQL Server applications on Amazon EC2
AWS now offers the ability to easily switch between AWS provided licenses and bring your own licenses (BYOL) for Windows Server and SQL Server workloads using AWS License Manager. License switching capabilities can be used as your business and licensing needs evolve. Changing the license type associated with your instance will still retain the application, […]

AWS – AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web applications hosted in an Amazon VPC
AWS Device Farm’s Desktop Browser Testing feature lets you test your web applications on different desktop versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge browsers. With today’s launch, we are adding support for testing web applications that are hosted in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Bastion native client support
Azure Bastion native client support brings you the ability to connect to target VMs from the command line and log in using their Azure Active Directory credentials. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Bastion IP based connection
Unlock secure global remote connectivity with Azure Bastion’s new IP based connection capability. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Sphere expands SoC portfolio with NXP i.MX 93-CS family
The versatility of the i.MX 93-CS and the secured Azure Sphere platform will make it easier and faster to bring IoT innovation to market. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Cloud Network Service Tiers: An overview
With Network Service Tiers, Google Cloud is the first major public cloud to offer a tiered cloud network. Two tiers are available: Premium Tier and Standard Tier. Click to enlarge Premium Tier Premium Tier delivers traffic from external systems to Google Cloud resources by using Google’s highly reliable, low-latency global network. This network consists of […]

AWS – Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager is now available in 7 additional AWS Regions
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager in 7 additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), US West (N. California). To learn about Incident Manager, see the Incident Manager product page. Read More […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer cache policy hot windows
Azure Data Explorer always supported to cache the latest ingested data for best performance. It now supports selectively caching older data which is ideal when auditing a given time period. Read More for the details.

GCP – Using Google Cloud Vision API from within a Data Fusion Pipeline
Cloud Data Fusion (CDF) provides enormous opportunity to help cultivate new data pipelines and integrations. With over 200 plugins, Data Fusion gives you the tools to wrangle, coalesce and integrate with many data providers like Salesforce, Amazon S3, BigQuery, Azure, Kafka Streams and more. Deploying scalable, resilient data pipelines based upon open source CDAP gives […]
GCP – Announcing Spot Pods for GKE Autopilot—save on fault tolerant workloads
We launched GKE Autopilot back in February and since then, we’ve been hard at work adding functionality to deliver a fully featured, fully managed Kubernetes platform. Today, we’re excited to introduce Spot Pods. (Not familiar with GKE Autopilot yet? Check out the Autopilot breakout session at Google Cloud Next ‘21, which gives a rundown of […]