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Azure – Generally available: Support for copying dashboards added to Azure IoT Central
Start reusing tiles and dashboards through the new Copy Dashboard feature in Azure IoT Central. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS launches new simplified console experience for creating ECS clusters and task definitions
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launched new clusters and task definitions creation workflows in the new management console. Customers can now use the new simplified workflows that provide flexible defaults and allow for configuration of observability features for container applications. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds LightGBM and CatBoost Models for Tabular Data
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart helps you quickly and easily solve your machine learning problems with one-click access to over 300 popular model collections from TensorFlow Hub, PyTorch Hub and Hugging Face (also known as “model zoos”), and to 17 end-to-end solutions that solve common business problems such demand forecasting, fraud detection and document understanding. Read More for […]

AWS – AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region.
Starting today, AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor are available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. Read More for the details.

GCP – Raising the bar in Security Operations: Google Acquires Siemplify
At Google Cloud, we are committed to advancing invisible security and democratizing security operations for every organization. Today, we’re proud to share the next step in this journey with the acquisition of Siemplify, a leading security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) provider. Siemplify shares our vision in this space, and will join Google Cloud’s security […]

GCP – LearningMate partners with Google Cloud to bring Student Success Services to more learners
A “one size fits all” approach to education no longer works in today’s classrooms. Using cloud-based technologies, schools and educators can take a more personalized approach to education–one that suits each student’s unique learning style, abilities, and needs. Taking the lead toward more equitable educational opportunities worldwide, education technology pioneer, LearningMate, is partnering with Google […]

GCP – Google Classroom is streamlining virtual training for Iowa employees
Organizations are pressed with the need to engage, retain, and upskill employees with many positions staying fully or partially remote as the pandemic continues. The Center for Digital Government (CDG) reports that 74% of state and local governments believe they will continue hybrid operations for the long-term. This transition is the latest in a long […]

AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
AWS Console Mobile Application users can now use Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for Catalan
We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Catalan. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to […]
AWS – Introducing Autoscaling in AWS Glue jobs (Preview)
Autoscaling in AWS Glue jobs is now available in preview. AWS Glue 3.0 can now dynamically scale resources up and down based on the workload, for both batch and streaming jobs. With autoscaling, you no longer need to worry about over-provisioning resources for jobs, spend time optimizing the number of workers, or pay for idle […]