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Azure – Upcoming changes to JSON flattening and storage for new Azure Time Series Insights deployments
Azure Time Series Insights is making changes to JSON telemetry data flattening and storage. These changes will go into effect 10 July 2020 for new deployments only. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports Kevin, Polly’s latest text to speech voice
Amazon Connect enables customers to use Amazon Polly’s latest US-English neural voice, Kevin. Built on Amazon Polly’s neural text-to-speech technology, this new voice delivers groundbreaking improvements in speech quality, making automated conversations sound more lifelike by improving the pitch, inflection, intonation, and tempo. Read More for the details.

GCP – Enhancing multi-cloud data governance on Google Cloud
Data governance is an essential part of managing your cloud infrastructure, particularly if you’re taking advantage of multiple cloud providers. In many industries, you need to show where data has been stored, and how it’s been used, to meet regulations. In addition, using access controls and other data governance tools helps ensure that only those […]

Azure – Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio Code now supports Visual Studio Codespaces
Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio Code now supports Visual Studio Codespaces. Read More for the details.

GCP – Admin Essentials: Publishing custom extensions for the enterprise
IT administrators often need to manage extensions to protect and enable their employees who use Chrome. I’ve written about the different methods of managing third-party extensions, but sometimes enterprises want to create their own custom extensions, so they can meet the exact needs of their users. Once the extension is created, the question becomes: How […]

GCP – New research on how Google Cloud certifications are transforming careers and businesses
Getting the most from cloud technologies means organizations need the right talent with the right combination of skills. However, 86 percent of IT leaders report that the shortage of cloud computing skills will slow down their 2020 cloud projects. To find the cloud skills they need, companies are increasingly turning to industry-recognized certifications: 93 percent […]

GCP – New Compute Engine A2 VMs—first NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs in the cloud
Machine learning and HPC applications can never get too much compute performance at a good price. Today, we’re excited to introduce the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. With up to 16 GPUs in a single VM, A2 VMs are the first A100-based offering […]

GCP – How an API-powered digital ecosystem can drive innovation and efficiency
Worldwide, businesses are adapting to the new market conditions by transforming their current operating models to meet the new consumer demands and improve productivity, all while still focusing on achieving growth. In this new era, taking an outside-in approach to digital business ecosystems can help organizations harness their existing resources and relationships to drive new […]

AWS – Amazon ECS announces the Increase Service Quota limits
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) today increased the default service quotas for ECS tasks per service and services per cluster. You can now launch up to 2,000 tasks per ECS service and 2,000 services per ECS cluster up from 1,000 each. Read More for the details.
AWS – EC2 Image Builder can now produce and distribute encrypted AMIs
EC2 Image Builder is now integrated with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and enables customers to build and distribute Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are encrypted with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) encryption. Read More for the details.