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AWS – AWS Secrets Manager has been IRAP assessed and accepted for PROTECTED level
AWS Secrets Manager has been Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessed and accepted at the PROTECTED level. Now, you can use AWS Secrets Manager to store secrets that are required to meet the Information Security Manual (ISM) control objectives. This support for IRAP is in addition to compliance with U.S. Health Insurance Portability and […]

GCP – Online shopping gets more personal with Recommendations AI
With the continuing shift to digital, especially in the retail industry, ensuring a highly personalized shopping experience for online customers is crucial for establishing customer loyalty. In particular, product recommendations are an effective way to personalize the customer experience as they help customers discover products that match their tastes and preferences. Google has spent years […]

GCP – Build a simpler, seamless workspace with the G Suite developer platform
When we think of an integrated and flexible workspace, it’s really about helping people work the way they want. There’s a wide range of applications beyond G Suite—Adobe, Box, DocuSign, Salesforce, and more—that improve productivity and drive newer ways of getting things done. Yet there’s an opportunity to bring these apps closer together and reduce […]

GCP – G Suite Essentials customers can use AppSheet at no charge through September
In April we introduced G Suite Essentials so teams can adopt popular apps like Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet, to collaborate, stay connected, and get more done, even while apart. To increase productivity, many teams and organizations need tools customized to their unique data and workflows. But getting access to the technical resources […]

GCP – 8 UK organizations that adapted and pivoted with the help of Google Cloud
COVID-19 has an impact on all of us, worldwide, in all aspects of our daily lives—from our families, to our communities, to the way we work. In the face of so much change, many businesses, big and small, have found the need to pivot and adapt to new realities, and I’m continually inspired by the […]

Azure – One- and three- year reserved capacity for Azure DB for PostgreSQL-Hyperscale (Citus)
Azure Database for PostgreSQL-Hyperscale (Citus) reserved capacity is now available to reserve compute power for your existing and future Hyperscale (Citus) server groups. Read More for the details.

Azure – Machine Learning services on Azure SQL Managed Instance is in limited preview
Machine Learning Services, a feature of Azure SQL Managed Instance, provides in-database support for R and Python scripts (in limited preview). Read More for the details.

Azure – New memory- and compute-optimized hardware options in Azure SQL Database
M-series, a new memory-optimized hardware option, and Fsv2-series, a new compute-optimized hardware option, are now generally available in Azure SQL Database. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 is now generally available
Azure Time Series Insights Gen2, our pay-as-you-go IoT Analytics offering, is now generally available and features a number of new capabilities that are powerful, yet simple to use: Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Application Gateway—URL rewrite and wildcard listener are now in preview
URL rewrite and wildcard host names in listener for Azure Application Gateway are now available in preview. Use URL rewrite to rewrite the host name, path, and query string of the request URL. Use the wildcard listener capability add wildcard characters and configure up to five host names per listener. Read More for the details.