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Azure – Azure Data Share Preview API versions will no longer be supported starting August 1, 2021
Beginning August 1, 2021, you will no longer be able to access Azure Data Share preview API versions (2018-11-01-preview, 2020-06-01-preview) through REST API or SDK. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Translate increases the concurrent API limit for Batch Translation to 1000
Amazon Translate is a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers real-time, high-quality, affordable and customizable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate has increased the concurrent API limits for batch translation jobs from 10 to 1000. Read More for the details.
Azure – New NPv1 virtual machines are now generally available
New Xilinx Alveo U250 FPGA NPv1 VMs are now generally available in West US 2, East US, West Europe, and Southeast Asia. Read More for the details.
GCP – Debugging your Proxyless gRPC service mesh
Proxyless gRPC applications in a service mesh now support many of the same features as deployments with a sidecar Envoy proxy, but in the past it has been difficult to get application-level insight into problems with specific nodes in the mesh. Today, we are happy to announce new tools, examples, and documentation to make it […]
Azure – Public preview: AKS support for Secrets Store Container Storage Interface
Access your secrets securely via the container’s file system. Read More for the details.
GCP – Diving into your documents with DocAI
We recently announced the GA of the Document AI Platform, Google’s solution for automating and validating documents to streamline document workflows. Important business data is not always readily available in computer-readable formats. This is what we consider dark formats such as pdfs, handwritten forms and images. The platform is a console for document processing where […]
GCP – Retire your tech debt: Move vSphere 5.5+ to Google Cloud VMware Engine
It can happen so easily. You get a little behind on your payments. Then you start falling farther and farther behind until it becomes almost impossible to dig yourself out of debt. Tech debt, that is. IT incurs a lot of tech debt when it comes to keeping up infrastructure; most IT departments are already […]
GCP – Databricks on Google Cloud is now generally available
Google Cloud and Databricks announced a new partnership to deliver Databricks at global scale on Google Cloud. Enterprises can deploy or migrate Databricks Lakehouse to Google Cloud to combine the benefits of an open data cloud platform with greater analytics flexibility, unified infrastructure management, and optimized performance. And we are excited to announce that this […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports policy conditions to help manage permissions for AWS services that access your resources. Many AWS services require access to your internal resources to perform tasks, and they often use their own service identity called a service principal to achieve this. Using the new service principal conditions, it is […]
GCP – Delivering smiles and sparking innovation at 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc.
Editor’s note: In honor of Mother’s Day, we look at how 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. migrated to Google Cloud as part of its digital transformation to quickly deploy seamless and convenient customer experiences across multiple brands on Mother’s Day and every day. As a leading provider of gifts designed to help customers express, connect, and celebrate, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, […]
