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Azure – General availability: Application Insight in UAE Central & Japan West
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in UAE Central & Japan West regions for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Event Grid is now in public preview for Azure Cache for Redis
Azure Cache for Redis integration with Azure Event Grid is in public preview. This integration allows service manage routing of Redis events like patching, scaling, and import/export(RDB) to any destination. Read More for the details.

GCP – Compliance with confidence: Introducing Assured Workloads Support
As organizations in regulated industries modernize and adopt cloud technologies, ensuring the security, privacy, and regulatory compliance of their sensitive workloads is an essential part of choosing a cloud provider. Regulated customers have specific compliance needs around data locality and personnel access to customer data. In the US specifically, these are mandated by requirements under […]

GCP – Introducing real-time data integration for BigQuery with Cloud Data Fusion
Businesses today have a growing demand for real-time data integration, analysis, and action. More often than not, the valuable data driving these actions—transactional and operational data—is stored either on-prem or in public clouds in traditional relational databases that aren’t suitable for continuous analytics. While old-school migrations or batch ETL loads can achieve the objective of […]

GCP – How to develop with PyTorch at lightning speed
Over the years, I’ve used a lot of frameworks to build machine learning models. However, it was only until recently that I tried out PyTorch. After going through the intro tutorial, Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz, I started to get the hang of it. With PyTorch support built into Google Cloud, including […]

GCP – Beyond Corp Enterprise: True zero trust architecture for the multicloud
We recently announced the general availability of BeyondCorp Enterprise, Google’s comprehensive zero trust product offering. As we work to democratize zero trust, building a solution to support customers across different environments was top of mind for our team. Google has over a decade of experience managing and securing cloud applications at a global scale and […]

GCP – The Dunant subsea cable, connecting the US and mainland Europe, is ready for service
We’re thrilled to say bonjour to the Dunant submarine cable system, which has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, the system expands Google’s global network to add dedicated capacity, diversity, and resilience, while enabling interconnection […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 20.2
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 20.2 version of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 12.1, 12.2, 18c and 19c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon S3 Batch Operations adds support for Delete Object Tagging
You can now perform S3 Delete Object Tagging operations using Amazon S3 Batch Operations to delete object tags across many objects with a single API request or a few clicks in the S3 Management Console. S3 Batch Operations lets you perform repetitive or bulk actions like copying objects or replacing tag sets across billions of […]
AWS – Amazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities including support for cross-account sensitive data discovery, scanning by Amazon S3 object prefix, improved pre-scan cost estimation, and added location detail in findings
We are excited to announce a series of new capabilities that have been added to Amazon Macie to make it easier to configure, scope, and run sensitive data discovery in AWS, including support for scanning jobs that cover Amazon S3 buckets residing across multiple accounts, scoping of scans by object prefix, better cost estimation for […]