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GCP – HLTH ’23: Google Cloud and healthcare leaders share how generative AI is transforming the industry
In healthcare, AI is the most exciting technology we are working on today. From assisting clinicians with documentation, to streamlining operations, to accelerating medical research, to helping doctors detect diseases earlier, this remarkable technology holds the potential to reshape our world and promote healthier, more fulfilling lives. For the healthcare industry, the most promising near-term […]

Azure – Some Azure Service Bus SDK libraries will be retired on 30 September 2026—migrate to the latest SDKs
Azure Service Bus SDK libraries that don’t conform to Azure SDK guidelines will be retired and support will end. Read More for the details.

Azure – Migrate to Azure Monitor agent–based VM insights by 31 August 2024
Log Analytics agent–based VM insights will be retired. Read More for the details.

Azure – Support for Azure Machine Learning Explanation and Fairness Dashboards is ending on 14 March 2025
The Explanation and Fairness Dashboard will be retired on 14 March 2025, please transition to the Responsible AI Dashboard (generally available) by that date. The Responsible AI dashboard will have feature parity and new additional features. You can still create and view the Explanation and Fairness dashboards with our open-source offerings (InterpretML and Fairlearn respectively), which are free […]

Azure – Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on Azure Cache for Redis ending on 30 September 2024
Azure Cache for Redis support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 30 September 2024. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings
Deprecation of Azure Activity Logs legacy solution and auto migration Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired March 30, 2024
On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks to interact with your Azure Cosmos DB account, transition to run these notebooks using Visual Studio Code’s support for Jupyter notebooks, or your preferred notebooks client. Read More for the details.

Azure – Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023
Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023 Read More for the details.

Azure – Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired. Read More for the details.
AWS – Private Access to the AWS Management Console is available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Management Console Private Access in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Management Console Private Access is an advanced security feature that allows customers to define a set of trusted AWS accounts and organizations that can access the AWS Management Console from within their network. For example, with AWS Management […]