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Azure – Soft delete for Azure file shares is now generally available in all regions
Soft delete protects Azure file shares from accidental deletion. In January 2021, it will be enabled by default for all new storage accounts. Read More for the details.
Azure – Action Required: Migrate to Data Science Virtual Machine Ubuntu 18.04
End of Support for Data Science Virtual Machine for Ubuntu 16.04 on 1 April 2021. Read More for the details.
Azure – Bing Search APIs will transition from Azure Cognitive Services to Azure Marketplace on 31 October 2023
Continue to create new instances of Bing Search APIs under the Azure Marketplace. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript now enables meeting health monitoring and troubleshooting
Application developers building real-time audio, video, and screen sharing applications can now collect client metrics from meetings events available from the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript. Developers can help end users troubleshoot their application without requiring them to send in client logs. And by streaming metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, developers can analyze meeting health trends […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito User Pools enables easy quota management and usage tracking
Amazon Cognito User Pools now enables you to manage quotas for commonly used operation categories, such as user creation and user authentication, as well as view quotas and usage levels in the AWS Service Quotas dashboard or in CloudWatch metrics. This update makes it simple view your quota usage of and request rate increases for […]
GCP – Workspace powers business as usual for Optiva during COVID-19
Established companies in any industry, including telecommunications, often take a cautious approach when it comes to adopting new technology. This is true of any technology and especially of tools used across entire organizations and at all levels—like collaboration and communication tools. I joined Optiva Inc. as its Chief Marketing Officer in August 2018, and right […]
GCP – Using remote and event-triggered AI Platform Pipelines
A machine learning workflow can involve many steps with dependencies on each other, from data preparation and analysis, to training, to evaluation, to deployment, and more. It’s hard to compose and track these processes in an ad-hoc manner—for example, in a set of notebooks or scripts—and things like auditing and reproducibility become increasingly problematic. Cloud […]
GCP – These inspiring small and medium businesses are helping the world navigate COVID-19 together
No matter where you are in the world, we’ve all had to adapt our routines to navigate the “new normal” brought on by COVID-19. We’ve been inspired by the ways businesses and organizations have responded, from accelerating medical research using the latest AI technology to enabling remote healthcare to protect doctors and their patients. As […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra achieves HIPAA eligibility
Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate intelligent search service powered by machine learning is now a U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers can now use Amazon Kendra to manage healthcare and life science workloads that contain protected health information (PHI). Read More for the details.
AWS – Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports gRPC protocol. With this release, you can use ALB to route and load balance your gRPC traffic between microservices or between gRPC enabled clients and services. This will allow customers to seamlessly introduce gRPC traffic management in their architectures without changing any of the underlying infrastructure on their clients […]