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Azure – Public Preview: Azure AD Support for Azure Files SMB shares REST API
With this announcement, cloud native and modern applications that use REST APIs to access Azure SMB shares can utilize identity-based authentication and authorization to access file shares. Read More for the details.

GCP – How to easily migrate your on-premises firewall rules to Cloud Firewall policies
Firewalls are a critical component of your security architecture. With the increased migration of workloads to cloud environments, more companies are turning to cloud-first solutions for their network security needs. Google Cloud Firewall is a scalable, cloud-first service with advanced protection capabilities that helps enhance and simplify your network security posture. Google Cloud Firewall’s fully […]

GCP – Ten ways troubleshooting GKE apps is now easier in Cloud Logging, part 1
At Google Cloud, we know that developer time is precious. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to improve productivity. We’d like to share ten new features that we launched in Cloud Logging so that you can more quickly get to the logs that matter and resolve issues more quickly. Improved logs display for Google […]

GCP – Climate Cardinals: Bridging the climate information gap with AI-powered translations
Editor’s note: On a trip to visit family in Iran, Sophia Kianni made an alarming observation. Despite facing the disproportionate impacts of climate change, and with temperatures in the Middle East rising twice as fast as the global average, her relatives knew almost nothing about the world’s environmental challenges. When she realized that scientific literature […]

GCP – Improving search experiences with Enterprise Search in Gen App Builder
In our conversations with customers, few generative AI use cases have driven as much enthusiasm as generative search. Leaders at enterprises know the limits of traditional enterprise search, with queries producing a list of links based on pattern matching, and significant manual investigation required to find the more relevant answers. In generative AI, these leaders […]

GCP – Predict, personalize, and wow your customers with better analytics and AI
What will financial services look like in the future? Historically, financial services have been driven by one-on-one relationship-based interactions. Now, customers expect these trusted relationships to translate into personalized, digital experiences that prove their providers know and value them, and have the capabilities to help them. It’s no secret that customer engagement leads to revenue […]

AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports selective start or stop ingestion of CloudTrail events
AWS CloudTrail Lake now provides the ability to selectively start or stop ingestion of CloudTrail events into your CloudTrail Lake event data store. This capability enables you to collect events only for a specific time window for troubleshooting or security analysis without having to delete or recreate the event data store. When you stop ingestion, […]

AWS – Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a new capability of Amazon FinSpace that makes it simple to configure, run, and manage kdb Insights on AWS. KX Systems’ kdb Insights, a high-performance analytics engine, is optimized for analyzing real-time and multi-petabyte historical capital markets data. Kdb Insights is widely […]

AWS – Amazon MWAA now supports in-place version upgrades
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports in-place version upgrades for environments version 2.x and later. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Kendra now available in Europe (London) AWS region
Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Europe (LHR) AWS Region. Read More for the details.