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AWS – Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer
Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application’s most expensive lines of code. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure NetApp Files Datastores for Azure VMware Solution is coming soon
Azure VMware Solution NFS datastores on Azure NetApp Files is currently in private preview and is coming soon. The solution provides more choice to optimize and scale storage for Azure VMware Solution environments. Read More for the details.

GCP – Liberating your mainframe data with Confluent and Google Cloud
Are you looking for the best way to migrate and replicate your mainframe data? Google Cloud and Confluent have teamed up to provide an end-to-end solution for connecting your mainframe application data with the advanced analytics capabilities of Google Cloud. In this article, we will discuss how you can use Confluent Connect to replicate messages […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon Workspaces Cost Optimizer v2.4
The AWS Solutions team recently updated Amazon Workspaces Cost Optimizer, a solution that analyzes all of your Amazon WorkSpaces usage data and automatically converts the WorkSpace to the most cost-effective billing option (hourly or monthly), depending on your individual usage. This solution also helps you monitor your WorkSpace usage and optimize costs. Read More for […]

Azure – Azure Stream Analytics: 2 new regions are now generally available
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build reports, or trigger alerts and actions. The service is now available in 2 new China regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure VMware Solution now available in Brazil South and East US 2 regions
Azure VMware Solution has now expanded availability to Brazil South and East US 2, this update is in addition to the existing availability across multiple Azure regions in US, Europe, Australia, Japan, UK, Canada, and Southeast Asia. Read More for the details.

Azure – HCX Enterprise Edition is now generally available for Azure VMware Solution
VMware HCX is the primary migration solution for organizations moving VMware workloads natively to a cloud service like Azure VMware Solution. The HCX Enterprise Edition, now generally available with Azure VMware Solution, is a premium HCX service that includes Replication Assisted vMotion and Mobility Optimized. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator for Managed entitlements
AWS License Manager announces Delegated Administrator support for Managed entitlements. This feature allows license administrators to manage and distribute licenses across their AWS accounts from a delegated account outside of the management account. Using delegated administrator, you can grant licenses from AWS Marketplace and Independent Software Vendors across your organization and benefit from the administrative […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports PostGIS 3.1
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports PostGIS major version 3.1. This new version of PostGIS is available on PostgreSQL versions 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, 10.18, and higher. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Announcing the release of Swiss German dialect speech recognition support
Microsoft speech service just released the de-CH locale that recognizes Swiss dialects as well as standard German as part of our speech to text offering. This enables the creation of smart speech solutions tailored to Switzerland’s market needs. Read More for the details.