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Azure – Monitor Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes with Metric Alerts
Learn how to configure recommended metric alerts for monitoring your Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters. Read More for the details.

Azure – Learn how to manage and optimize your Azure costs with our guided learning modules
Stay up to date on your cost management needs with five new courses Read More for the details.

Azure – Raw Logs and Metrics are generally available on Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Microsoft CDN
New options for analytics on Azure CDN are now available to unblock more scenarios for you Read More for the details.

AWS – Now author AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks using Visual Studio Code
AWS Systems Manager now enables developers to view, author, and publish Automation runbooks directly from Visual Studio Code, a free code editor built on open source. You can now use the editor to author runbooks faster and be more productive by starting with pre-built templates, auto-completing the code with snippets, and validating the runbook for […]

AWS – AWS Snowball is now available in the AWS Europe (Milan) Region
The AWS Snowball service is now available in the AWS Europe (Milan) Region. AWS Snowball, a part of the AWS Snow Family, is an edge computing, data migration, and edge storage device that comes in two options. Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices provide 80 TB of Amazon S3 object storage and optional compute with 40 […]

GCP – 5 tips for more interactive meetings with Q&A and Polls, rolling out to Google Meet
Around the world, organizations and educators are adapting to the new norm of digital workplaces and distance learning. To help, we’ve accelerated the launch of many new features for Google Meet—from background blur that allows you to focus on the person in front of you, to digital whiteboards that inspire creativity, to tiled layouts that […]

Azure – Public preview of Azure Stream Analytics unit testing capability in an CI/CD pipeline
The Azure Stream Analytics CI/CD tools are now updated with query unit testing capability. Users can now add and run automated test cases for their queries. Read More for the details.

GCP – Understand production performance with Cloud Profiler history view
Cloud Profiler is a favorite of Google Cloud customers thanks to the insight that it provides into the performance of your production code. You can use this knowledge to reduce and shorten outages, improve performance, and optimize compute spend—always a popular topic! Profiler has always provided the ability to view and compare CPU and memory […]

GCP – Turn any Dataflow pipeline into a reusable template
As data analysis grows within an organization, business teams need the ability to run batch and streaming jobs and leverage the code written by engineers. But re-running existing code often requires setting up a development environment and making slight code changes, which is challenging for people without a programming background. With this challenge in mind, […]
GCP – A deeper dive into Confidential GKE Nodes—now available in preview
The benefits of containers and Kubernetes over traditional on-premises architectures are well-documented and understood. But when considering moving to the cloud, organizations want controls to limit risk and potential exposure of their data. In July, we announced the availability of the Confidential Computing product family, whose breakthrough technology encrypts data in-use—while it is being processed—without […]