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AWS – Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry announces support for JSON Schema
Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry now adds support for JSON Schema, allowing customers to validate, annotate, and manipulate JSON documents conforming to JSON Schema Draft 4 specification. You now have access to more specifications when creating schemas and can use JSON Schema to create strongly typed events. You can also implement use cases such as client-side […]

AWS – Japanese Sellers, Consulting Partners, and Data Providers Now Available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), consulting partners, and data providers from Japan are now eligible to sell software and data products in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange. These offerings add to the global catalog of 8,000+ software and data products from 1,600+ ISVs, consulting partners, and data providers in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange. […]

AWS – Amazon EFS integrates with AWS Systems Manager to simplify management of Amazon EFS clients
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) integrates with AWS Systems Manager to simplify management of Amazon EFS clients. You can now use AWS Systems Manager to automate the tasks required to install the latest version of the Amazon EFS client (amazon-efs-utils) package on your Amazon EC2 instances maintaining compliance and security by ensuring that the […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace launches Discovery API, making it easier to discover relevant third-party software and data products
AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with 8000+ software listings and data products, has announced general availability of AWS Marketplace Discovery API. This launch enables independent software vendors (ISVs) and data providers to curate and surface a set of third-party software and data products on their web properties through integration with the AWS Marketplace catalog. […]

AWS – Amazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealing
Customers now can use D-Wave’s Advantage system on the Amazon Braket quantum computing service. The new Advantage quantum processing unit (QPU) has more than 5000 qubits with 15-way connectivity to enable researchers and developers to explore larger, more complex quantum optimization problems. Read More for the details.

Azure – General Availability: Application Insight in UK West
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in the UK West region for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure HDInsight –Autoscale for Interactive Query with HDInsight 4.0 is now generally available
Enable HDInsight Autoscale to drive higher utilization of your clusters. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Cloud Migration Made Easy
At Google Cloud, we believe that effective integration of public cloud capabilities is fundamental to an enterprise’s digital transformation journey. A well-designed digital transformation strategy should do much more than keep you competitive… instead, it should position you to excel by untethering IT staff from low value, labor-intensive tasks, allowing them to focus on innovation […]

GCP – SAP on Google Cloud: 2 analyst studies reveal quantifiable business benefits
Cloud migration is top of mind for most companies with SAP applications. While the advantages of the cloud for SAP customers is generally understood, the move itself can be complicated and disruptive. So what actually are the business benefits and cost savings? How long will it take to recoup such an investment? Two recently published […]
GCP – PyTorch / XLA now generally available on Cloud TPUs
The PyTorch machine learning (ML) framework is popular in the ML community for its flexibility and ease-of-use, and we are excited to support it across Google Cloud. Today, we’re announcing that PyTorch / XLA support for Cloud TPUs is now generally available. This means PyTorch users can access large scale, low cost Cloud TPU hardware […]