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Azure – H-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2022
Migrate to HPC, GP, or RAM optimized VMs by 31 August 2022 Read More for the details.

Azure – Tomcat 7 reached End-of-Life on 23 March 2021
Transition to Tomcat 8.5 or 9.0 by 29 July 2022. Read More for the details.

Azure – Version 2.x of the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK will be retired on 31 August 2024
Update your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK to version 3 by 31 August 2024. Read More for the details.

Azure – NC v2-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2022
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2022. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index for Asia-Pacific
We’re excited to announce that Amazon Forecast Weather Index is now also available in the Asia-Pacific region. Weather Index can increase your forecasting accuracy, by automatically including the latest local weather information in your demand forecasts with one click and at no extra cost. Weather conditions influence consumer demand patterns, product merchandizing decisions, staffing requirements […]

GCP – Manage data exfiltration risks in Cloud Run with VPC Service Controls
Enterprises looking to take advantage of the scalability and ease-of-use associated with cloud technology have often turned to serverless computing architectures. In these systems, a cloud provider allocates resources on-demand as required by a particular workload, and abstracts much of the management of an application or system for a customer. But to the most security-minded […]

GCP – Zero trust is a must: Supporting our customers with new BeyondCorp Enterprise features
Since launching BeyondCorp Enterprise in January, our team has been busy working with customers to understand how they are using the product and what we can do to better support their needs as they continue on their zero trust journey. We believe zero trust is an effective way to enhance overall security and provide a […]

GCP – How retailers can boost agility and resilience in Google Cloud
COVID-19 drastically changed the way consumers purchased goods and services, but these changes merely accelerated trends that were well underway. While many retailers were caught off guard with the suddenness of the transition, most are stepping up their cloud transformation initiatives in response to changes in consumer behavior and expectations — changes that are likely […]

GCP – Zero effort performance insights for popular serverless offerings
Inevitably, in the lifetime of a service or application, developers, DevOps, and SREs will need to investigate the cause of latency. Usually you will start by determining whether it is the application or the underlying infrastructure causing the latency. You have to look for signals that indicate the performance of those resources when the issue […]
GCP – Using a private repo on Artifact Registry in Google Cloud Functions
Late last year, we announced that Artifact Registry was going GA, allowing GCP customers to manage their packages within the same platform as they were being deployed. In this blogpost, we want to show you how to do exactly that with a private dependency. Private dependencies allow your packages to be shared with only a […]