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Azure – On-demand capacity reservations in public preview
Reserve compute capacity and obtain a capacity SLA for Azure virtual machine deployments with on-demand capacity reservations. Read More for the details.

Azure – New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now in public preview
Increase the availability at scale of business-critical applications with new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets features. Simplify workload deployment, management, and scalability with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode, now in public preview. Read More for the details.

Azure – Improve Azure Spot Virtual Machines runtime and simulate evictions with new features in public preview
New Azure Spot Virtual Machines capabilities – ‘try & restore’ and REST APIs to simulate VM evictions – are now in public preview. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Register Azure subscriptions and Resource Groups with Azure Purview
Manage your data with greater ease by using Azure Purview to register multiple sources at the same time. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Purview Resource Set configuration enhancements
You can now customize how Azure Purview Data Catalog assets are grouped into resource sets and are named as well. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now displays an aggregated view of all operational issues for a specified resource
Starting today, you can view all operational issues (OpsItems) for an impacted resource in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter. OpsCenter allows operations engineers and IT professionals to investigate, diagnose, and resolve operational issues related to AWS resources from a central place. This enables you to understand the greater context while troubleshooting an issue such as an […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Driving Digital Transformation with Sitecore
Driving Digital Transformation with Sitecore is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Slalom, an AWS DevOps Competency and AWS Digital Experience Competency Partner. With the Driving Digital Transformation with Sitecore consulting offer, Slalom leverages Sitecore’s combination of content management, commerce, and customer insights to design and create a complete, customer-centric […]

AWS – FreeRTOS demonstrates meeting a set of security criteria for IoT platforms
FreeRTOS is now certified for the Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) Assurance Level 2. With this certification, FreeRTOS libraries have demonstrated meeting a specific set of security criteria for IoT platforms. In addition, embedded developers writing FreeRTOS-based applications can achieve SESIP certification for their own applications more quickly because the underlying libraries have […]

GCP – Automating smartphone manufacturing with Visual Inspection AI
AI technologies can help organizations keep up with their customers’ fast-changing demands and gain an edge over the competition. For manufacturers, AI promises benefits at every level of the value chain as they try to speed up production while maintaining high-quality products. AI has proven especially beneficial for improving product quality, lowering costs, predicting equipment […]
GCP – How to build a serverless real-time credit card fraud detection solution
As businesses continue to shift toward online credit card payments, there is a rising need to have an effective fraud detection solution capable of real-time, actionable alerts. In collaboration with Quantiphi, an award-winning Google Cloud Premier Partner with experience engaging with global financial institutions, we developed a smart analytics design pattern that enables you to […]