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GCP – TechEd 2021: What’s new for SAP customers on Google Cloud
SAP’s TechEd 2021 is the premier developer and IT-focused virtual event for any business that runs — or is planning to run — SAP applications, and it gets under way this week. What better time to take stock and share how, together, we’re creating value for SAP customers? For Google Cloud, 2021 has easily been […]

GCP – What is Cloud CDN and how does it work?
No matter what your app or website does, chances are that your users are distributed across various locations and are not necessarily close to your servers. This means the requests travel long distances across the public internet , leading to inconsistent and sometimes frustrating user experiences. That’s where Cloud CDN comes in! Click to enlarge […]

AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 Introduces Linux Application Streaming
Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for Amazon Linux 2. With this launch, you can now stream Linux applications and desktops to your users, and greatly lower the total streaming cost by migrating Matlab, Eclipse, Firefox, PuTTY, and other similar applications from Windows to Linux on Amazon AppStream 2.0. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure API Management updates- October 2021
Azure API Management is now available with new updates such as support for managed identity authentication for communication with Application Insights, ability to import Container App as an API and more. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Translate Now Extends Support for Active Custom Translation to all language pair combinations
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Active Custom Translation (ACT) to customize your translation between any currently supported languages. For example, you can now use ACT between German and French. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Sweden
Azure is now available from our newest sustainable datacenter region Sweden Central. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Run Command – Execute PowerShell or shell scripts on Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
The updated Run Commands are now management orientated, allows to run multiple scripts, track their progress and define Run Command resources in ARM templates to automate VM deployments. Read More for the details.

Azure – East Asia Availability Zones now generally available
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in the East Asia region. These three new zones provide you with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.

GCP – Bare Metal Solution launches its second Sydney location
We’re excited to announce the launch of a second zone in Sydney for Bare Metal Solution (BMS) in order to bring BMS to our customers around the world. With state of the art hardware certified for enterprise applications, BMS is the best place to run your Oracle workloads with ultra-low latency to Google Cloud. When […]
GCP – Export Google Cloud data into Elasticsearch with Dataflow templates
At Google Cloud, we’re focused on solving customer problems while supporting a thriving partner ecosystem. Many of you use third-party monitoring solutions to keep a tab on your multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments, be it for IT operations, security operations, application performance monitoring, or cost analysis. At the same time, you’re looking for a cloud-native […]