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Azure – Public preview of Azure VPN Client for macOS
Azure VPN Client for macOS enables customers to utilize features of Azure AD natively, such as multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access, and user-based policies for their Mac clients. Read More for the details.

Azure – Action Required: Migrate your Azure Blockchain Service data by 10 September 2021
Migrate your data to the ConsenSys Quorum Blockchain Service. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kendra now available in Asia-Pacific (Singapore) AWS region
Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Region. Read More for the details.

GCP – Why embedding financial services into digital experiences can generate new revenue
Faced with changing customer behaviors and demands, tightening margins, and increasing threat from digital competitors, financial services institutions (FSIs) will need to meet customers where they are, open up their services, and establish new ways to monetize their products. Doing so will also enable them to build a better profile of their customers, and deliver […]

GCP – Automate your budgeting with the Billing Budgets API
TL;DR – Budgets are ideal for visibility into your costs but they can become tedious to manually update. Using the Billing Budgets API you can automate updates and changes with your custom business logic! We’ve talked a lot about what budgets are and how to set them up. Once you’re working with a larger company […]

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new lower cost storage tier
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports cold storage, a fully-managed storage tier that makes it easy for customers to securely store and analyze their infrequently accessed data on-demand, at a lower cost than other storage tiers. You pay for compute only when you need it. Cold storage allows you to retain any amount of data in […]

GCP – How DueDil leverages Apigee API-first approach to deliver data insights at scale
As their name reflects, DueDil provides due diligence services ranging from customer-specific risk evaluations and selections to customer onboarding and real-time risk monitoring for leading financial services, high-growth tech and insurance companies. Founded in 2009, the company helps more than 3,000 enterprise users from over 400 clients to not only understand with whom they’re doing […]

GCP – Costa Mesa Sanitary District improves manhole maintenance with machine learning
Local governments are embracing more modern and scalable ways to support their communities. In an effort to save both time and money, Costa Mesa Sanitary District (“CMSD”) used machine learning to automate and streamline manhole maintenance. Manhole maintenance is an essential part of the upkeep of cities. Manholes provide critical access points for underground public […]

AWS – Amazon EMR 6.3 now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control
Amazon EMR integration with Apache Ranger is now available on EMR 6.3, allowing you to define, enforce, and audit fine-grained data access control. With this feature, you can define and enforce 1/ database, table, and column level authorization policies for Apache Spark and Apache Hive users to access data through Hive Metastore, and 2/ prefix […]
Azure – General availability: Azure API Management updates – May 2021
A regular Azure API Management service update was started on May 5, 2021, and included the following new features, bug fixes, and other improvements. Read More for the details.