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AWS – Now enable auto-approval of change requests and expedite changes with AWS Systems Manager Change Manager
Change Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows administrators to auto-approve known and less risky changes through pre-configured change templates thereby eliminating the approval step and expediting changes. Read More for the details.

GCP – Let’s get it started! Triggering ML pipeline runs
ML pipelines are great at automating end-to-end ML workflows, but what if you want to go one step further and automate the execution of your pipeline? In this post I’ll show you how to do exactly that. You’ll learn how to trigger your Vertex Pipelines runs in response to data added to a BigQuery table. […]

Azure – General availability: Introducing global disaster recovery via Azure Site Recovery
Replicate your virtual machines to any Azure region on the planet to safeguard your applications from disaster. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Percept DK July (2107) software update is available
The Azure Percept July update includes fixes related to security, Wi-Fi/Network, and OOBE UI localization. Read More for the details.

GCP – Use log buckets for data governance, now supported in 23 regions
Logs are an essential part of troubleshooting applications and services. However, ensuring your developers, DevOps, ITOps, and SRE teams have access to the logs they need, while accounting for operational tasks such as scaling up, access control, updates, and keeping your data compliant, can be challenging. To help you offload these operational tasks associated with […]

GCP – Data Validation for Oracle to Cloud Spanner Migration
Introduction The Oracle database is a popular RDBMS in the database industry, but for a highly scalable environments we see customers choosing to leverage Cloud Spanner with its multi-region, unlimited scalability and up to 99.999% availability. Migration of Oracle to Spanner can be addressed using many approaches but one of the most important stages of […]

GCP – New Research: COVID-19 accelerates innovation in healthcare but tech adoption still lags
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been a rapid acceleration of digital transformation across the entire healthcare industry. Telehealth has become a more mainstream and safe way for patients and caregivers to connect. Machine learning modeling has helped speed up innovation and drug discovery. And new levels of integration and data portability have […]

Azure – General availability: Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach: 2 new locations
ExpressRoute Global Reach allows you to link ExpressRoute circuits in different locations together to make a private network between your on-premises networks. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Amazon RDS Proxy now enables you to create Proxies in a shared, centrally-managed Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). VPC sharing allows teams, each with their AWS accounts, to create resources into a centrally-managed VPC. This reduces the number of VPCs that you need to create and manage, while using separate accounts for billing and access […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Video segment detection now supports four new segment types, improves accuracy
Amazon Rekognition Video is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content. Video segment detection makes it easy for media companies to streamline common operational tasks by automatically detecting frame-accurate silent black frames, end credits, color bars, and shot changes in video files. […]