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Azure – Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for September 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in September 2021. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Applied AI Services | Latest public preview enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer
Azure Form Recognizer now offers a pre-built version of the service in preview for document extraction as well as the following capabilities in preview: signature detection, hotel receipts processing, and deeper extraction of content from US driver’s licenses. In addition, the service is now easier to use with Form Recognizer Studio and new REST APIs. […]
Azure – Korea Central Availability Zones now generally available
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in the Korea Central region. These three new zones provide you with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.
GCP – Better Kubernetes application monitoring with GKE workload metrics
The newly released 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report found that teams who excel at modern operational practices are 1.4 times more likely to report greater software delivery and operational performance and 1.8 times more likely to report better business outcomes. A foundational element of modern operational practices is having monitoring tooling in place to […]
GCP – How Etsy uses reCAPTCHA Enterprise to stop fraud and not customers
At Etsy.com, our mission is to Keep Commerce Human by providing a global marketplace that connects 5.2 million sellers with more than 90.5 million active buyers looking for unique items with a human touch. For our vibrant global community to continue to grow and thrive, interactions on the platform must be safe, private, and secure. […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS Glue DataBrew, a visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to clean and normalize data for analytics and machine learning, is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. See where DataBrew is available by using the AWS Region Table. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure NetApp Files waitlist removal
Azure NetApp Files, one of the fastest growing bare-metal Azure services is now available to Azure customers directly from the Azure portal, CLI, API or with SDK – without having to go through waitlist approval process. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs
AWS Firewall Manager now enables you to configure logging for your AWS Network Firewalls provisioned using a Firewall Manager policy. When you set up a Firewall Manager policy for Network Firewall, you can now enable logging for all the accounts that are in scope of the policy and have the logs centralized under your Firewall […]
GCP – New Google poll: Cloud enables research to continue despite pandemic delays
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all industries over the last year-and-a-half, and research institutions were no exception. In fact, making advancements in medicine and science became an even more urgent priority. Many private sector and government agencies around the globe turned to the cloud to help their remote employee base stay connected and collaborate with […]
Azure – Public preview of Azure NetApp Files Backup capability
Azure NetApp Files backup expands the data protection capabilities of Azure NetApp Files by providing fully managed backup solution for long-term recovery, archive, and compliance. Read More for the details.