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Azure – Upcoming changes to JSON flattening and storage for new Azure Time Series Insights deployments
Azure Time Series Insights is making changes to JSON telemetry data flattening and storage. These changes will go into effect 10 July 2020 for new deployments only. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports Kevin, Polly’s latest text to speech voice
Amazon Connect enables customers to use Amazon Polly’s latest US-English neural voice, Kevin. Built on Amazon Polly’s neural text-to-speech technology, this new voice delivers groundbreaking improvements in speech quality, making automated conversations sound more lifelike by improving the pitch, inflection, intonation, and tempo. Read More for the details.

GCP – Enhancing multi-cloud data governance on Google Cloud
Data governance is an essential part of managing your cloud infrastructure, particularly if you’re taking advantage of multiple cloud providers. In many industries, you need to show where data has been stored, and how it’s been used, to meet regulations. In addition, using access controls and other data governance tools helps ensure that only those […]

Azure – Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio Code now supports Visual Studio Codespaces
Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio Code now supports Visual Studio Codespaces. Read More for the details.

GCP – Admin Essentials: Publishing custom extensions for the enterprise
IT administrators often need to manage extensions to protect and enable their employees who use Chrome. I’ve written about the different methods of managing third-party extensions, but sometimes enterprises want to create their own custom extensions, so they can meet the exact needs of their users. Once the extension is created, the question becomes: How […]