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AWS – Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers APIs which you can use to keep your WorkSpaces images up-to-date with the latest AWS drivers. Previously, WorkSpaces images were kept up to date by manually launching a WorkSpaces instance, installing driver updates and creating a new image. With this launch, you can use WorkSpaces APIs to know if latest AWS […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Stack HCI new feature update
This latest update for Azure Stack HCI enables new workloads, new host capabilities, and new management scenarios. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Percept DK September (2109) software update is available
The Azure Percept September update includes fixes related to security and Wi-Fi/Network. Read More for the details.

GCP – Functions, events, triggers oh my! How to build event-driven app
Today, many developers want to design applications using an event-driven architecture (EDA). This software architecture paradigm promotes the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events. It’s an architectural pattern best applied to design and implement applications and systems that transmit events among loosely-coupled software components and services. You can build event-driven applications using Cloud […]

GCP – SenseData’s journey with Google Cloud’s managed database services
Editor’s note: Learn how SenseData helps Brazilian companies embrace customer success, rapidly evolving their products on Google Cloud and Google managed database services. SenseData has grown from a handful of customers to 140, manages multi-terabytes of data, and is now moving to Google BigQuery for data warehousing. SenseData is a customer success company, and we […]

GCP – Trust Google Cloud more with ubiquitous data encryption
As you move data to the cloud, you face the important question of how to verifiably protect data from unauthorized access without limiting your options for storage and processing. Using public cloud services requires you to place inherent trust in your cloud provider, which can be uncomfortable for your most sensitive data and workloads. On […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Monitor Query SDK
The new Azure Monitor Query SDK is now generally available for .NET, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python, allowing developers to build apps that perform read-only queries in Azure Monitor’s Logs and Metrics platform. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Windows Server 2019 Bundles Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019, providing a Windows 10 desktop experience along with a 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus bundle option in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. The feature brings a refreshed Windows 10 desktop experience, and enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions. Read […]

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings. With TTL, you set expiration times on attributes or rows in your tables, and Keyspaces automatically deletes those expired attributes or rows. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Cross region replication for Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files supports cross region replication for disaster-recovery (DR) purposes and provides frequent, efficient and cost-effective volume and snapshot replication between Azure standard and non-standard region pairs. Read More for the details.