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GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Early July 2023
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2023. Today, I’ll be asking my colleague Royal Hansen, vice president of Privacy, Safety, and Security Engineering at Google, about AI, security, and risk topics. This year has been a banner year for artificial intelligence (AI), and especially for AI and security. There’s been a huge […]

GCP – Introducing Application Integration: Connect your applications visually, without code
According to a recent Accenture report, large businesses deploy an average of 500 different applications. This trend shows no signs of slowing down, with the majority of respondents signaling plans to acquire even more applications. No surprise, all these applications present a number of integration challenges, which the impending wave of generative AI in software […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana now supports in-place update for version 9.4
Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. With this feature, you can now upgrade your existing workspaces from version 8.4 to 9.4. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Translate enables real time translation of Docx files
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are enabling real time translation of Docx files. With this launch, Real Time Document Translation can synchronously translate HTML, TXT and Docx files, while preserving the source document format. Customers can use the API via SDK, […]

Azure – Public preview: Support for Python 3.11 in Azure Functions
Take advantage of Python 3.11 features with Azure Functions Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Network observability add-on for AKS
You can now get complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Bring your own key on Ephemeral OS disk for AKS
You can now use your own keys to encrypt your ephemeral OS disks. Read More for the details.

Azure – Preview: Azure Boost
Azure Boost is one of Microsoft Azure’s latest and most significant infrastructure innovations, enabling greater network and storage performance at scale, improves security, and reduced servicing impact. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: OData API type in Azure API Management
We are excited to announce the public preview of the OData API type in Azure API Management. This new capability extends the benefits and capabilities of Azure API Management to OData APIs, including the ability to secure them with standard API protections, such as authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, in combination with OData-specific policies for […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch announces ML backed Logs Insights pattern query command
Amazon CloudWatch is excited to announce “pattern”, a new Logs Insights command which enables customers to more easily identify trends and patterns in their logs. Customers often need to analyze thousands of log lines to identify relevant information. The pattern command uses AWS Machine Learning algorithms to automatically recognize patterns in log data, aggregate related […]