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Azure – Generally Available: Durable Functions for Python v2 Programming Model
You can now develop durable functions in Azure Functions using the Python v2 programming model Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: Application Insights integration for the Azure Functions .NET worker
.NET function apps using the isolated worker model can now better control how telemetry is emitted to Application Insights. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: SDK type bindings in Azure Functions
Azure Functions now supports binding to types from the Azure SDK, providing a richer development experience. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Backup Audit Manager now supports delegated backup administrator
Today, AWS announced support for delegated backup administrators to use AWS Backup Audit Manager for creating and managing audit reports across accounts in AWS Organizations. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Singapore)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Singapore). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of […]

GCP – DevOps Award winner Moloco on ‘accelerating DevOps with machine learning’
Outlined in this post are the applications and achievements that earned Moloco the ‘Accelerating Machine Learning with DevOps’ award in the 2022 DevOps Awards. If you want to learn about the other winners and how they used DORA metrics and practices to grow their businesses, visit DORA. Moloco – A leader in machine learning Moloco is a […]

GCP – DevOps Awards winner ANZ on “going beyond the four keys”
ANZ provides banking and financial products and services to more than 8.5 million retail and business customers and operates in 29 markets across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Pacific, Europe, America and the Middle East. ANZ is one of the top ten largest listed companies in Australia by market capitalisation, one of four major banks in Australia and the […]

AWS – AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL adds 5 new visual transforms
AWS Glue Studio now offers 5 new visual transforms: Record matching, Remove null rows, Extract string fragments from a regular expression, Parse JSON column, and Extract JSON path. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs. With these new components, ETL developers can quickly build […]

AWS – Amazon Polly launches new Gulf Arabic male NTTS voice
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Zayd – new Gulf Arabic Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice for Amazon Polly. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview for August
Two new features now available in PuPr enable you to work with improved data size and model support and generate a default Responsible AI dashboard for the best AutoML model. Read More for the details.