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Azure – Create a formula in Azure DevTest Labs using a shared image gallery image
Your customers can now create a formula in DevTest Labs using a shared image gallery image. Formulas provide a dynamic way to create virtual machines from the desired configuration and settings. Changes in the environment can be captured on the fly via artifacts. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for proximity placement groups is now available
Better support for latency-sensitive workloads in critical business scenarios. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure SDK for embedded devices
The new Azure Embedded C SDK is designed to allow small and embedded devices, such as IoT, to communicate with Azure services. Read More for the details.

Azure – Case-insensitive string functions with Azure Cosmos DB now available
Case-insensitive support in Azure Cosmos DB was released for the following string system functions—Contains, EndsWith, StringEquals, and StartsWith. Read More for the details.

Azure – Wildcard indexes in Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB
Wildcard indexes in the Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB, a popular MongoDB feature introduced in MongoDB version 4.2, are now available. Read More for the details.

Azure – Database engine auditing for Azure Database for MariaDB is now available
Azure Database for MariaDB now provides general availability support for using audit logs to record database activity and events such as connections and queries. Read More for the details.

Azure – Database engine auditing for Azure Database for MySQL is now available
Azure Database for MySQL now provides general availability support for using audit logs to record database activity and events such as connections and queries. Read More for the details.

GCP – Predict workload failures before they happen with AutoML Tables
The worldwide High Performance and High Throughput Computing community consists of large research institutions that store hundreds of petabytes of data and run millions of compute workloads per year. These institutions have access to a grid of interconnected data centers distributed across the globe, which allows researchers to schedule and run the compute workloads for […]

GCP – Detecting and responding to Cloud Logging events in real-time
Logging is a critical component of your cloud infrastructure and provides valuable insight into the performance of your systems and applications. On Google Cloud, Cloud Logging is a service that allows you to store, search, monitor, and alert on log data and events from your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure services and your applications. You […]
GCP – Increase visibility into Cloud Spanner performance with transaction stats
Cloud Spanner is Google’s fully managed scalable relational database service. We recently announced a new feature, Cloud Spanner transaction statistics, that lets you run SQL queries to retrieve transaction statistics for your database over several time periods. These transaction statistics give you greater visibility into what factors are driving the performance of your transactions. In […]