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GCP – Smile with new user-friendly SQL capabilities in BigQuery
October happens to be the month to celebrate World Smile Day when Harvey Ball, the inventor of the smiley face declared this day as such to give people a reason to smile. This month, BigQuery users have a lot of new reasons to smile about with the release ofnew user-friendly SQL capabilities now generally available. […]

AWS – Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.18
Kubernetes is rapidly evolving, with frequent feature releases and bug fixes. Highlights of the Kubernetes 1.18 release include Topology Manager reaching beta status, a new beta of Server-side Apply, and a new IngressClass resource for the Ingress specification which makes it simpler to customize Ingress configuration. Additionally, you can now configure the behavior of horizontal […]

Azure – Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series expanding within Europe, United Kingdom and United States
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in North Europe, UK West, US West. Read More for the details.

Azure – New alert query examples topic in Log Analytics
The logs experience was recently updated with examples queries for common log alerts. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure IoT Edge 1.0.10 release is now available
The Azure IoT Edge 1.0.10 release is available with support for diagnostic metrics, message priorities, module startup order, and arrays in twins. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Dev Spaces is retiring on 31 October 2023
Start using Bridge to Kubernetes in Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code Read More for the details.

Azure – HPC Cache new namespace page and region expansion
New HPC Cache namespace lets clients see all storage as a single file system. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Glue supports reading from self-managed Apache Kafka
Streaming extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs in AWS Glue can now ingest data from Apache Kafka clusters that you manage yourself. Previously, AWS Glue supported reading specifically from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). With this update, AWS Glue allows you to perform streaming ETL on data from Apache Kafka whether it […]

GCP – Easier ways to shop right from email
Over the past few months, there’s been a massive acceleration in the growth of eCommerce. Reports show that online revenue is growing 5 times faster than pre-COVID growth, and conveniences such as buy-online-pick-up-in-store are showing signs of permanent adoption. As retail businesses continue to adapt to these changing behaviors, providing an easy and safe shopping […]
Azure – Azure Data Explorer now support Compute Isolated SKUs
Azure Data Explorer has added support for isolated compute SKU and ready for deployment. Read More for the details.