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AWS – Workflow approvals for Amazon CodeCatalyst
Today Amazon CodeCatalyst announces support for approval gates within a workflow. Workflows provide an automated procedure for building, testing, and deploying code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. Approval gates pause the workflow run at the gate so that a user can validate whether it should be allowed to proceed. […]

AWS – Amazon Time Sync Service expands Microsecond-Accurate time to 87 additonal EC2 instance types
The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on 87 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types in supported regions, including all C7i, M7i, R7i, C7a, M7a, R7a, and M7g instances. Read More for the details.

Azure – The billing meter for Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables will change 1 May 2024
Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables Billing change Read More for the details.

GCP – Ninja Van: delivering flexibility, stability and scalability to core applications with a cloud container platform
At Ninja Van, running applications in a stable, scalable environment is business-critical. We are a fast-growing tech-enabled express logistics business with operations across South East Asia. In the past 12 months, we’ve partnered with close to two million businesses to deliver around two million parcels daily to customers, with the help of more than 40,000 […]

GCP – Make data your competitive edge with new solutions from Cortex Framework
In today’s AI era, data is your competitive edge. There has never been a more exciting time in technology, with AI creating entirely new ways to solve problems, engage customers, and work more efficiently. However, most enterprises still struggle with siloed data, which stifles innovation, keeps vital insights locked away, and can reduce the value […]

GCP – FakeNet-NG Levels Up: Introducing Interactive HTML-Based Output
Written by: Beleswar Prasad Padhi, Tina Johnson, Michael Bailey, Elliot Chernofsky, Blas Kojusner FakeNet-NG is a dynamic network analysis tool that captures network requests and simulates network services to aid in malware research. The FLARE team is committed to maintaining and updating the tool to improve its capabilities and usability. FakeNet is compatible across […]

Azure – Azure Advisor will no longer display aggregated potential yearly savings beginning 30 September 2024
Learn how to continue calculating aggregated potential yearly savings. Read More for the details.

Azure – Support of Azure Notification Hubs’ Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.
Azure Notification Hubs support for GCM/FCM legacy will be retired on 1 July 2024. Read More for the details.

Azure – .Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.
.Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024. After that date, it won’t be possible to use the feature. Please transition to JavaScript user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Personalize now offers automatic solution training
Amazon Personalize is excited to announce automatic training for solutions. With automatic training, developers can set a cadence for their Personalize solutions to automatically retrain using the latest data from their dataset group. This process creates a newly trained machine learning (ML) model, also known as a solution version, and maintains the relevance of Amazon Personalize […]