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Azure – Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements July 2021
New features Custom Containers in Managed Online Endpoints and Job Creation UI are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Application Insights integration with App Services for Java & Node.js apps
Integration of Azure Monitor application insights with App Services now enables you to monitor your Java & Node.js apps directly from Azure portal, without making any changes to your code, with just a click of a button. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud New Relic One integration and additional feature updates
Azure Spring Cloud now supports New Relic One for performance monitoring (in preview), reduced minimum app instance sizes, automated app deployments with Terraform and Azure Pipelines, and Azure Virtual Network in Azure China. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure SQL enabled by Azure Arc generally available on July 30, 2021
Bring cloud data management to data workloads on-premises, at the edge, and in multicloud environments. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: API Management and Event Grid integration
Azure API Management has now been updated to publish events to Event Grid. Read More for the details.

Azure – Free Extended Security Updates only on Azure for Windows Server 2012 /R2and SQL Server 2012
Learn how you can take advantage of free Extended Security only Azure for workloads running on Windows Server 2012/R2 and SQL Server 2012 releases. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Spring Cloud Pricing Model Change
Upcoming changes to base units in Azure Spring Cloud Basic and Standard will result in lower costs for many customers. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Lex announces tooling to migrate bots from Lex V1 console to Lex V2 console
Amazon Lex is a service for building natural language conversational interfaces using voice and text into your application. Earlier this year, we launched an enhanced V2 management console and APIs. The V2 API is makes it easier for bot developers to add new languages to a bot and also deliver natural conversational experiences such as […]

GCP – How Wunderkind scales up to 200K requests per second using Google Cloud
Editor’s note: We’re hearing here how martech provider Wunderkind easily met the scaling demands of their growing customer base on multiple use cases with Cloud Bigtable and other Google Cloud data solutions. Wunderkind is a performance marketing channel and we mostly have two kinds of customers: online retailers, and publishers like Gizmodo Media Group, Reader’s […]
AWS – AWS DeepRacer announces DeepRacer LIVE races
Starting today, racers from anywhere in the world can compete with each other virtually and in real-time from within the AWS DeepRacer Console while colleagues, friends, and family watch a LIVE broadcast of the event online. Previously only available to qualifiers in the AWS DeepRacer League’s monthly Pro Division finale, this new LIVE event option […]