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Azure – Azure SQL enabled by Azure Arc generally available on July 30, 2021
Bring cloud data management to data workloads on-premises, at the edge, and in multicloud environments. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: API Management and Event Grid integration
Azure API Management has now been updated to publish events to Event Grid. Read More for the details.
Azure – Free Extended Security Updates only on Azure for Windows Server 2012 /R2and SQL Server 2012
Learn how you can take advantage of free Extended Security only Azure for workloads running on Windows Server 2012/R2 and SQL Server 2012 releases. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Spring Cloud Pricing Model Change
Upcoming changes to base units in Azure Spring Cloud Basic and Standard will result in lower costs for many customers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Lex announces tooling to migrate bots from Lex V1 console to Lex V2 console
Amazon Lex is a service for building natural language conversational interfaces using voice and text into your application. Earlier this year, we launched an enhanced V2 management console and APIs. The V2 API is makes it easier for bot developers to add new languages to a bot and also deliver natural conversational experiences such as […]
GCP – How Wunderkind scales up to 200K requests per second using Google Cloud
Editor’s note: We’re hearing here how martech provider Wunderkind easily met the scaling demands of their growing customer base on multiple use cases with Cloud Bigtable and other Google Cloud data solutions. Wunderkind is a performance marketing channel and we mostly have two kinds of customers: online retailers, and publishers like Gizmodo Media Group, Reader’s […]
AWS – AWS DeepRacer announces DeepRacer LIVE races
Starting today, racers from anywhere in the world can compete with each other virtually and in real-time from within the AWS DeepRacer Console while colleagues, friends, and family watch a LIVE broadcast of the event online. Previously only available to qualifiers in the AWS DeepRacer League’s monthly Pro Division finale, this new LIVE event option […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
AWS Glue DataBrew, a visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to clean and normalize data for analytics and machine learning, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. For a list of regions where AWS Glue DataBrew is available, see the AWS Region Table. […]
AWS – Now view inventory and patch compliance of stopped instances using AWS Systems Manager
Patch Manager, a feature of AWS Systems Manager, now provides a more holistic view of the patch compliance and inventory of your fleet of instances by additionally reporting on stopped instances. This feature helps you to further simplify patch compliance and inventory reporting because information is now readily available for stopped instances. Read More for […]
GCP – How to provide better search results with AI ranking
Every IT team wants to get the right information to employees and vendors as quickly as possible. Yet the task is always getting harder as more information becomes available and results invariably become stale. Disparate internal systems hold vital information. Search capabilities are not consistent across tools. No universal system exists. And even inside Google […]