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Azure – Public preview: Azure Machine Learning now available in Japan West
Azure Machine learning, bringing AI to everyone with an end-to-end, scalable, trusted platform previews in Japan West. Read More for the details.

Azure – Private preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise
Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise (preview) is a new managed service for Spring Boot that is optimized for the needs of enterprise developers running applications at scale. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure AD Graph is retiring on 30 June 2022
Update your apps to use Microsoft Graph before 30 June 2022 Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF log filtering
AWS Firewall Manager now enables security administrators to specify which web requests to log and which requests to exclude from logs when using AWS WAF to inspect web traffic. If you use Firewall Manager security policies to centralize AWS WAF logging, you can now log only the information you want to analyze. By reducing the […]

GCP – Migration success with Operational Health Reviews from Google Cloud’s Professional Service Organization
Introduction The Google Cloud Professional Services Organization’s (PSO) mission is to help our customers get the most out of Google products. PSO is responsible for customer success by sharing our technical expertise in order to unlock business value from the cloud by providing cloud strategy and best practice advice, implementation guidance, and training using our […]

GCP – Monitoring made simple for Google Cloud VMware Engine and Google Cloud operations suite
Moving workloads to Cloud has many benefits to organizations: automated upgrades and patches, added security, a cost-saving subscription-based model, on-demand capacity and more. If your organization has moved to the Cloud or is seriously considering it, you are probably wondering what to use for monitoring your infrastructure, application, network, workloads and more. Google Cloud VMware […]

GCP – How to load Salesforce data into BigQuery using a code-free approach powered by Cloud Data Fusion
Organizations are increasingly investing in modern cloud warehouses and data lake solutions to augment analytics environments and improve business decisions. The business value of such repositories increases as customer relationship data is loaded and additional insights are generated. In this post, we’ll cover different ways to incrementally move Salesforce data into BigQuery using the scalability […]

GCP – Announcing the Government & Education Summit, Nov 3-4, 2021
Mark your calendars – registration is open for Google Cloud’s Government and Education Summit, November 3–4, 2021. Government and education leaders have seen their vision become reality faster than they ever thought possible. Public sector leaders embraced a spirit of openness and created avenues to digital transformation, accepting bold ideas and uncovering new methods to […]

AWS – AWS announces General Availability of Amazon Managed Grafana with SAML 2.0 and Grafana v8.0 features
Amazon Managed Grafana is now generally available. Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed, secure data visualization service that enables customers to query, correlate, and visualize operational metrics, logs, and traces for their applications across multiple data sources. Developed in collaboration with Grafana Labs, Amazon Managed Grafana manages the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance of […]
GCP – Deploying a Cloud Spanner-based Node.js application
Cloud Spanner is Google’s fully managed, horizontally scalable relational database service. Customers in financial services, gaming, retail and many other industries trust it to run their most demanding workloads, where consistency and availability at scale are critical. In this blog post, we illustrate how to build and deploy a Node.js application on Cloud Spanner using […]