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Azure – Azure Security Center—News and updates for September 2020
New enhancements and updates that were made to Azure Security Center in September 2020. Read More for the details.

GCP – Troubleshooting your apps with Cloud Logging just got a lot easier
In Cloud Logging, we understand that logging is a critical part of what it takes for you to operate reliable applications and infrastructure on Google Cloud. We’ve added new features to help you more easily store, find and control your logs. Today, we’re announcing a new default logging experience: Logs Explorer. Previously known as Logs […]

AWS – AWS CRT HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
We are pleased to announce the preview release of AWS Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client – a new HTTP client supported in the AWS SDK for 2.x. AWS CRT HTTP Client is an asynchronous, non-blocking HTTP client built on top of the Java bindings of the AWS Common Runtime. Customers can choose to use the […]

Azure – Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB SDK v3.0.0 release now available
Now you can use the Spring Data framework with the Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Availability Zones in more regions
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in Australia East and Canada Central. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— Assamese language now available
Translator Text now supports the Assamese language. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Data Factory adds SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) support for ADF Data Flows and Synapse Data Flows
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is adding new connector support to SQL MI as a source and sink to data flows in ADF and Synapse Analytics in ADLS and Blob Store. Read More for the details.

Azure – GA: Data Factory adds ORC data lake file format support for ADF Data Flows and Synapse Data Flows
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is adding new connector support to enable Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) format to data flows in ADF and Synapse Analytics in ADLS and Blob Store. Read More for the details.

Azure – Confidential computing nodes (DCSv2) support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in public preview
Orchestrate your container applications with hardware based isolation and data-in-use protection through Intel SGX enclaves. Supporting both enclave aware containers and confidential containers (unmodified container apps) Read More for the details.
Azure – New features for Windows Server containers in Azure Kubernetes Service
Learn about new Windows Server container related capabilities in AKS Read More for the details.