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Azure – Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now in preview in US Gov Arizona
Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now available in preview in US Gov Arizona. It’s also available in an additional eighteen public regions around the world. Read More for the details.

GCP – The future of computing showed up early
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by John Solomon, VP of Chrome OS. Now more than ever, workers rely on technology to stay connected. If you missed John’s discussion with Alex Konrad, listen to the Forbes discussion here, or join John on the premiere episode of Tea Time Tech Talks presented by Chrome Enterprise where John […]

GCP – Campuses use data analytics and virtual agents for student success
Student success is about much more than getting good grades. It also includes giving instructors more time to coach their students, helping students monitor and improve their progress on their own, and running processes like class registration more efficiently. Google Cloud is working with higher education institutions to help meet these challenges, and more. In […]

GCP – Speeding up, scaling out: Filestore now supports high performance
The world’s top scientists and researchers are working around the clock to advance the discovery of a therapeutic or vaccine to combat COVID-19. With the power of these minds focused on one singular goal, it’s important that the technology they’re using is up to the task. While the challenges of a global pandemic are immense, […]

Azure – System topics are now an Azure resource
Explicitly create system topics using Azure Event Grid. Read More for the details.

Azure – Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door service logging enhancements
Azure Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door now has a match details field in the logs to provide insights on why a request triggered a Web Application Firewall rule. Read More for the details.

Azure – HBv2-Series VMs now available in Japan East
HBv2-series VMs for HPC now available in the Japan East region. Read More for the details.

AWS – FreeRTOS over-the-air update (OTA) now supports new job configurations
Starting today, FreeRTOS offers support for new over-the-air update (OTA) job configurations. Using the job rollout configuration, you can now add all of your IoT devices to the same OTA update job, and update these devices in phases. Using job abort and job execution timeout configurations, you have better control over your OTA update process. […]

AWS – AWS Transit Gateway is Now Available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) Regions
AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. As you grow the number of workloads across multiple AWS accounts, you need to scale your networks, better […]
AWS – Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
You can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to run containers on Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances. With EKS and the AWS Neuron Kubernetes device plugin, it’s easy combine multiple Inferentia devices in your cluster to run high performance and cost-effective inference workloads at scale. Read More for the details.