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Azure – General availability: New West US 3 region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now generally available for West US 3 customers. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure App Service Migration Assistant PowerShell-based experience
The PowerShell-based experience for the Azure App Service Migration Assistant is now in public preview. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server Auto-grow storage in public preview
With auto-grow storage enabled, your storage automatically grows when storage consumed on the Flexible Server is nearing its provisioned limit. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Built-in Azure Policy support for Network Watcher Traffic Analytics
Traffic Analytics can now be enabled using Built-in Azure Policy, thus improving your deployment experience. Now organizations can enforce org wide standards and manage traffic monitoring at scale using these policies. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Public IP information and inter-zone traffic among many new insights in Traffic Analytics
Azure Network Watcher Traffic Analytics solutions is used to monitor network traffic. It now provides WHOIS and Geographic data for all Public IPs interacting with your deployments and further adds DNS domain, threat type & threat description for Malicious IPs. Now, it also supports inter-zone traffic and VMSS level traffic insights. Read More for the […]

Azure – General availability: Python Functions now support custom telemetry in Application Insights
Azure Monitor is releasing a new PyPI package that expands distributed tracing support in Application Insights for Python Functions. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Better integration between Azure Monitor and Grafana
Customers using Grafana for visualizing Azure Monitor metrics can now enable additional data sources and have easier authentication using managed identity. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now support direct proxies and Log Analytics gateway
If you use a proxy server or Log Analytics gateway to communicate to Azure Monitor, you can now start using the new Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) and Data Collection Rules (DCR) in these network configurations. Read More for the details.

GCP – Query BIG with BigQuery: A cheat sheet
Organizations rely on data warehouses to aggregate data from disparate sources, process it, and make it available for data analysis in support of strategic decision-making. BigQuery is the Google Cloud enterprise data warehouse designed to help organizations to run large scale analytics with ease and quickly unlock actionable insights. You can ingest data into BigQuery […]
GCP – Grow your ML skills with free offer from Coursera
We’re partnering with Coursera, one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, on a new ML Academy to help you sharpen your machine learning (ML) skills and learn about the latest ML technologies from Google Cloud at no-cost. The academy has three core components for you to take advantage of in July and […]