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Azure – General availability: Azure Monitor Query SDK
The new Azure Monitor Query SDK is now generally available for .NET, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python, allowing developers to build apps that perform read-only queries in Azure Monitor’s Logs and Metrics platform. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Windows Server 2019 Bundles Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019, providing a Windows 10 desktop experience along with a 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus bundle option in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. The feature brings a refreshed Windows 10 desktop experience, and enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions. Read […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings. With TTL, you set expiration times on attributes or rows in your tables, and Keyspaces automatically deletes those expired attributes or rows. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Cross region replication for Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files supports cross region replication for disaster-recovery (DR) purposes and provides frequent, efficient and cost-effective volume and snapshot replication between Azure standard and non-standard region pairs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon AppFlow is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. With AppFlow, you can run data flows at enterprise scale between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, SAP, Zendesk, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon […]
GCP – Trying out source-based deployment in Cloud Run
Until recently, this is how you deployed code to Cloud Run: Define your container-based app with a Dockerfile. Build the container image and push it to the Container Registry (typically with Cloud Build). Deploy the container image to Cloud Run. Back in December, we announced the beta release of source-based deployments for Cloud Run. This […]
AWS – Introducing the AWS Networking Competency for Consulting Partners
Today, we announced the AWS Networking Competency for Consulting Partners. These partners have deep domain expertise in developing a consistent network and security policy, as well as solutions that offer a new way of routing traffic through private backbones and cloud cores. AWS Networking Competency Consulting Partners can help customers provide secure ingresses and convenient on-ramps […]
Azure – OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents. Read […]
GCP – Supercharge your Google Cloud workloads with up-to-date best practices from Architecture Framework
Architecture Framework helps customers utilize a set of canonical best practices to design and build workloads on Google Cloud that are secure, reliable, and scalable, while applying cost and performance optimization techniques. The Architecture Framework is organized into 6 pillars. System design considerations cover foundational building blocks such Compute, Storage, and Database, expanding best practices […]
GCP – Cloud Data Loss Prevention is now automatic!
Data is one of your most valuable assets; understanding and using data effectively powers your business. However, it can also be a source of privacy, security, and compliance risk. The data discovery and classification capabilities of Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) have helped many Google Cloud customers identify where sensitive data resides. However, data growth […]