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AWS – Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now offers an enhanced experience to train computer vision models more easily
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (AutoML) service that allows you to build custom computer vision models to detect objects and scenes specific to your business needs without the need of in-depth machine learning expertise. Starting today, we have updated the Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels console to introduce step-by-step directions on how […]

GCP – Innovators Gather in Force at Google Cloud Government and Education Summit – No Need for FOMO with On-Demand Viewing
In early November more than 27,000 innovators gathered virtually for our second annual Google Cloud Government and Education Summit. Leaders from across the globe inspired and engaged us over two days with their stories of innovation, resilience, and persistence, even in the most challenging of times and circumstances. Speakers shared how they’ve embraced technology to […]

Azure – Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the France Central Azure Region
Azure VMware Solution has now expanded availability to France 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.

Azure – General availability: Copy data to/from Azure Data Explorer using Azure Data Factory or Synapse Analytics
Mapping Data Flows provides scale-out data transformation in the cloud in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics. With these additional connectors, you can build ETL patterns at Spark scale in a code-free design environment without ever touching the Spark compute. Azure Integration Runtimes allow you to define the Spark environment and provide a serverless […]

Azure – SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage – now in public preview
Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports SFTP over object storage natively in a serverless fashion, enabling you leverage object storage economics and features with legacy workloads that use SFTP. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud start and stop, bring your own persistent storage, and Service Connector
Azure Spring Cloud now lets you start and stop your applications to reduce costs, bring your own persistent storage for logs and dumps, and connect your apps with Azure services more easily using Service Connector. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Monitor Spring Boot apps in Azure Spring Cloud with AppDynamics
With the integration of AppDynamics in Azure Spring Cloud, developers can keep using a popular and familiar application performance monitoring (APM) tool to monitor Spring Boot applications. Read More for the details.

Azure – Virtual machines selector now generally available
The newly released virtual machines selector lets you quickly find the Azure VMs and disk storage options that meet your requirements. Localized in 26 different languages, the tool guides your selection based on workload categories, operating systems, and Azure regions of your choice. The virtual machine selector is integrated with the pricing calculator. Read More […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Machine Learning updates – November 2021
New features now available in public preview for Azure Machine Learning include test AutoML models and calculate test metrics, support for storage account IP firewall, and new pipeline capabilities using CLI v2. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Machine Learning updates – November 2021
The new feature in general availability for Azure Machine Learning includes deploying with pre-built Inferencing docker images. Read More for the details.