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AWS – AWS Config now supports Amazon container services
AWS Config now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in all AWS Regions. With this launch, you can now use AWS Config to monitor configuration data for container-based resources in your AWS account, such as monitoring configuration changes to EKS cluster […]

Azure – Power BI Connector for Azure Databricks is now generally available
Announcing the general availability of the Power BI connector for Azure Databricks, for Power BI Service and Power BI Desktop 2.85.681.0. Read More for the details.

GCP – Increasing limits for three key Cloud Monitoring features
Cloud Monitoring is one of the easiest ways you can gain visibility into the performance, availability, and health of your applications and infrastructure. Today, we’re excited to announce the lifting of three limits within Cloud Monitoring. First, the maximum number of projects that you can view together is now 375 (up from 100). Customers with […]

GCP – Troubleshooting services on Google Kubernetes Engine by example
Applications fail. Containers crash. It’s a fact of life that SRE and DevOps teams know all too well. To help navigate life’s hiccups, we’ve previously shared how to debug applications running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). We’ve also updated the GKE dashboard with new easier-to-use troubleshooting flows. Today, we go one step further and show […]

GCP – Cash App uses Google Cloud to power mobile payments innovation and research
Mobile payments are creating opportunities to reach and benefit more people worldwide by providing services to underbanked communities, and empowering streamlined services in e-commerce and brick-and-mortar stores. Square, a U.S.-based financial services company that specializes in payment software and hardware products, currently stands at the cutting-edge of this industry. The company regularly pursues more powerful, […]

GCP – With SRE, failing to plan is planning to fail
People sometimes think that implementing Site Reliability Engineering (or DevOps for that matter) will magically make everything better. Just sprinkle a little bit of SRE fairy dust on your organization and your services will be more reliable, more profitable, and your IT, product and engineering teams will be happy. It’s easy to see why people […]

GCP – Black History Month: Celebrating the success of Black founders with Google Cloud: Switchboard Live
February is Black History Month —a time for us to come together to celebrate and remember the important people and history of the African heritage. Throughout this month we have highlighted three Black-led startups and how they use Google Cloud to grow their businesses. Our final feature highlights Switchboard Live and its founder, Rudy. Specifically, […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports many media origins and paths within a single configuration with Configuration Aliases
AWS Elemental MediaTailor introduces new Configuration Aliases, that can reduce the number of MediaTailor configurations needed to support multiple origins and media paths. This feature enables a single MediaTailor configuration to support URL fields with dynamic user-defined variables. Read More for the details.

Azure – Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure China 21Vianet
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor will be retired on 29 February 2024. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Stack Edge Pro FPGA is retiring on 29 February 2024
Upgrade to the new Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU devices. Read More for the details.