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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.

Azure – Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure Government Cloud
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor will be retired on 29 February 2024 Read More for the details.

Azure – Update the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK by 29 February 2024
We’ll be retiring version Sync 2.x of the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK. Read More for the details.

Azure – Action required: Switch to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by 29 February 2024
Migrate to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Read More for the details.

Azure – We are retiring Classic Azure Migrate on 29 February 2024
Transition to Azure Migrate by 29 February 2024. Read More for the details.

GCP – New Cloud Security Podcast by Google is here
Security continues to be top of mind for large enterprises as well as smaller organizations and businesses. Furthermore, cloud security continues to puzzle many security leaders and technologists. That is why we are excited to announce the launch of the Cloud Security Podcast by Google. This podcast will bring you stories and insights on security […]
GCP – Protect your organization from bot attacks to future-proof your business
More business is done online than ever before, which means bot attacks are up and the stakes are higher and higher for businesses. In 2019, bots accounted for over half of all automated web traffic and nearly a quarter of all internet traffic. Organizations are aware of the growing increase in bot attacks and the […]