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GCP – Training more than 40 million new people on Google Cloud skills
Around the world, organizations across multiple industries are in the midst of digitally transforming their businesses. For many, the COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated things. These digital transformations are already impacting the way we work and live, from enabling more sustainable, carbon neutral growth; to creating new business models shaped by artificial intelligence; to allowing unprecedented […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.10 expected on Oct. 20, 2021
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period for 21.10 provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.
AWS – Prepare and visualize time series datasets in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a single […]
GCP – Model training as a CI/CD system: Part I
In software engineering, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are two very important concepts. CI is when you integrate changes (new features, approved code commits, etc.) into your system reliably and continuously. CD is when you deploy these changes reliably and continuously. CI and CD both can be performed in isolation as well as […]
Azure – Windows 11 is now generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop
Deploy Windows 11 desktops and applications on Azure Virtual Desktop and utilize new capabilities while optimizing for cost. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports decoupling a database running in an Elastic Beanstalk environment. Previously, a database instance created by Elastic Beanstalk was tied to the lifecycle of the environment. With this launch, the lifecycle of your database instance will not be tied to your application’s environment lifecycle, and you can decouple a database managed […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop
AWS Network Firewall now offers new configuration options for rule ordering and default drop, making it easier to write and process rules to monitor your virtual private cloud (VPC) traffic. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud Spanner Provider for Entity Framework Core
We’re very excited to announce the general availability of the Google Cloud Spanner provider for Entity Framework Core, which allows your Entity Framework Core applications to take advantage of Cloud Spanner‘s scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability. In this post, we’ll cover how to get started with the provider and highlight the supported […]
Azure – Azure Functions Python 3.9 support is now generally available
Python developers can now take advantage of the version enhancements in Python 3.9 using Azure Functions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Partner return on Investment jumps to 86%, according to Forrester Total Economic Impact Study
Over the past year we’ve seen incredible changes in how people worked, but also how software developers and IT practitioners innovated. Customers are moving their businesses well beyond infrastructure and migrating, in fast forward, toward the next era of their cloud evolution. Forrester predicts cloud spending to grow at 38% CAGR through 2022, which is […]