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AWS – AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
The AWS Snowcone service is now available for customer orders in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) and, AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. With this launch, Snowcone is now available for order in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), and US West […]

GCP – How BungkusIT uses Google Maps Platform to run errands and deliver packages for over one million customers across Malaysia
Editor’s note: Today’s post is written by Hatim M, Chief Commercial Officer at BungkusIT. The on-demand delivery service delivers packages within the hour for one million customers across Malaysia and uses Google Maps Platform to create a seamless end-to-end delivery experience for its customers. Imagine it’s the end of a long day at work, and […]

GCP – Celebrating Women’s Equality Day with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: August 26th is Women’s Equality Day, a day celebrated in the United States to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. This post celebrates this moment in U.S. […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports Inference Pipelines
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), now supports registering and deploying SageMaker inference pipelines with the model registry. SageMaker Pipelines includes a model registry, which is a central repository for cataloging models for production, managing model versions, associating metadata with models, managing approval statuses […]

Azure – Azure Synapse Analytics Compute Optimized data flows will be retired on 31 August 2024
Transition from Compute Optimized data flows to General Purpose data flows by 31 August 2024. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Functions support for Python 3.6 is ending on 30 September 2022
Functions App support for Python 3.6 is ending on 30 September 2022, we recommend you upgrade to Python 3.8. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Functions support for Node 8 is ending on 28 February 2022
Functions App support for Node 8 apps is ending on 28 February 2022, we recommend you upgrade to Node 14. Read More for the details.

GCP – Save messages, money, and time with Pub/Sub topic retention
Starting today, there is a simpler, more useful way to save and replay messages that are published to Pub/Sub: topic retention. Prior to topic retention, you needed to individually configure and pay for message retention in each subscription. Now, when you enable topic retention, all messages sent to the topic within the chosen retention window […]

GCP – Six new features in Dialogflow CX
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of six new features in Dialogflow CX that make it the best chatbot virtual agent for enterprises. With these features, our customers will be able to improve the end-user conversational experience and manage security and deployment better. These launches also include some console improvements and built-in […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: August 2021
We’re more than halfway through 2021 and cybersecurity continues to be one of the most pressing issues facing organizations around the globe. As a major cloud provider, we have the opportunity to help address these challenges by delivering high levels of security in the platforms and services we offer. This remains a top priority for […]