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GCP – SenSen uses Google Cloud to power massively scalable Sensor AI platform
Editor’s note: In this guest blog we look at how a Sensor AI solution provider uses Google Cloud to deliver highly scalable and reliable SaaS solutions across the globe. SenSen has become the world leader in Sensor AI technology-based solutions thanks in large part to Google Cloud. Sensor AI is the branch of AI that […]

AWS – AWS Amplify launches further data management capabilities in the Admin UI
AWS Amplify Admin UI now allows generating seed data with Faker, and downloading data to a CSV file. This simplifies creating and managing your data in Amplify, and allows for more realistic demo data that is quickly shareable. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and regions
The AWS Snowcone solid state drive (SSD) is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions adding to our growing list of regions already offering Snowcone SSD including, EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon). […]

GCP – At Hackensack Meridian Health, the patient care experience starts in Chrome browser
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Mark Eimer, CTO at Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), a New Jersey network of 17 hospitals with 36,000 employees. Hackensack Meridian Health adopted Chrome browser to support employees’ access to apps and content, no matter where they’re working. To date, HMH is managing 60,000 Chrome browser installs across 500 locations. […]

GCP – Avoiding GCF anti-patterns part 3: How to establish outbound connections correctly
Editor’s note: Over the next several weeks, you’ll see a series of blog posts focusing on best practices for writing Google Cloud Functions based on common questions or misconceptions as seen by the Support team. We refer to these as “anti-patterns” and offer you ways to avoid them. This article is the third post in the […]

Azure – General availability: New Azure Data Explorer output plugin for Telegraf
This new output plugin allows you to write telemetry collected by any of the input plugins of Telegraf directly into Azure Data Explorer e.g. it makes SQL monitoring at scale better and affordable. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Germany West Central Azure region
Azure VMware Solution has now expanded availability to Germany West Central, this update is in addition to the existing availability multiple Azure regions in US, Europe, Australia, Japan, UK, Canada, Brazil and Southeast Asia (Singapore). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS now supports cross account KMS keys for exporting RDS Snapshots
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers the ability to specify an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer master key (CMK) from a different account when exporting an Amazon RDS Snapshot to Amazon S3. This option helps customers organize and consolidate their KMS keys by eliminating the need to create keys in each account […]

AWS – AWS Security Hub adds support for AWS PrivateLink for private access to Security Hub APIs
AWS Security Hub now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so that you can securely initiate API calls to Security Hub from within your VPC without requiring those calls to traverse across the Internet. AWS PrivateLink support for Security Hub is now available in all AWS Regions where Security Hub is available. To […]
Azure – Private preview: Azure OpenAI Service combines access to powerful GPT-3 language models with Azure’s enterprise capabilities
Apply advanced language models to a variety of use cases with Azure OpenAI Service. Read More for the details.