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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch RUM is generally available in 11 additional AWS Regions
Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which enables customers to monitor their web applications by collecting client side performance and error data in real time, is generally available in the following 11 AWS Regions starting today: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Middle […]

Azure – General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA
Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now Generally Available Read More for the details.

Azure – App Service virtual network integration multi plan subnet join
We’re excited to announce that the multi plan subnet join for virtual network integration is now available in preview in all regions! Read More for the details.

AWS – Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock offers support for CloudFormation and Service Quotas
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver relevant and accurate responses. We are excited to add new capabilities for building enterprise-ready RAG. Knowledge Bases now supports AWS CloudFormation and Service Quotas. Read More for […]

AWS – AWS Lambda supports Kafka event sources in four new regions
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka as event sources in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) Regions, enabling customers to build serverless applications that process streaming data from Kafka event sources. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks
Azure Backup can now help you back up virtual machines using private endpoint-enabled disks. You can now also specify network settings to be used by the restored disks while initiating the restore process. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs
Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Storage and Event Hubs. Read More for the details.

GCP – Discover 100+ generative AI solutions from our partners at Next ‘24
Generative AI (gen AI) is well on its way to transforming…well, just about everything. Over the last year, I’ve had the opportunity to meet and speak with hundreds of partners and customers on the topic. We’ve seen how broad gen AI potential is across industries, with use cases spanning fraud detection and response in financial […]

GCP – Announcing the 2024 Google Cloud Partners of the Year
The results are finally in. Allow us to proudly present to you the 2024 Google Cloud Partner of the Year winners! It’s a pleasure and an honor to acknowledge the tremendous contributions our partners make to our business. These organizations go above and beyond to create outstanding solutions and experiences for every single one of […]
Azure – Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI
Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI Read More for the details.