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Azure – Azure Backup: Operational backup for Azure Blobs is now generally available
Operational backup for Azure Blobs gives you a managed data protection solution for block blobs in your storage accounts. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Custom Translator—May new features, improvements and bug fixes
Review the Microsoft Custom Translator new features, improvements, bug fixes, and new/refreshed models for May 2021. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Multiple features for Azure VPN Gateway
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now generally available in Azure VPN Gateway. Read More for the details.

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – DevOps Automation Springboard
DevOps Automation Springboard is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Capgemini, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. DevOps Automation Springboard offers customers the ability to address their deployment needs as they move to the AWS Cloud. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a DevOps […]

AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Colombia, Macao, and Puerto Rico
AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at customer datacenters and on-premises locations in Colombia, Macao, and Puerto Rico. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Pinpoint Announces Journey Pause and Resume
Today, Amazon Pinpoint announces the ability for customers to pause and resume Journeys — being able to temporarily halt the execution of message sends. Previously, customers needed to stop and recreate their Journey entirely if there was a situation such as: a conflicting campaign, a seasonal event, or an issue. Journeys are multi-step campaigns that […]

GCP – What you can learn in our Q2 2021 Google Cloud Security Talks on May 12th
Join us for our second Google Cloud Security Talks of 2021, a live online event on May 12th where we’ll help you navigate the latest developments in cloud security. We’ll share expert insights into how we’re working to be your most trusted cloud by covering the following topics: Sunil Potti and Rob Sadowski will kick […]

GCP – Customers handle up to 28% more concurrent chats with Agent Assist for Chat
Contact Center AI (CCAI) brings Google’s innovation in conversational AI to solve the most challenging customer service needs while lowering operational costs. More than a thousand customers have deployed CCAI and are steadily turning it on to power their production contact centers. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve made CCAI even stronger with Agent […]

AWS – Amazon VPC Announces Pricing Change for VPC Peering
Starting May 1st 2021, all data transfer over a VPC Peering connection that stays within an Availability Zone (AZ) is now free. All data transfer over a VPC Peering connection that crosses Availability Zones will continue to be charged at the standard in-region data transfer rates. You can use the Availability Zone-ID to uniquely and consistently identify […]
GCP – Scheduling Cloud Bigtable Backups
Cloud Bigtable backups let you save a copy of a table’s schema and data, then restore from the backup to a new table at a later time. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create backups at regularly scheduled intervals (such as daily or weekly) using the Cloud Bigtable Scheduled Backups example. This example uses […]