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Azure – Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available
Azure Load Balancer support for cross-region load balancing is now generally available. You can now load balance across Azure regions enabling a globally redundant architecture via Azure Load Balancer. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench
Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench is a new service that provides a fully managed work environment for engineering development, accelerating project startup, and enabling secure collaboration between development teams. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Digital Twins supports Digital Twins Definition Language version 3
ADT supports defining models using the Digital Twins Definition Language version 3 (DTDL v3) Read More for the details.

GCP – Canadian Healthcare and Google Cloud – A safe place to continue your modernisation journey.
Is Cloud an option for Canadian Healthcare healthcare and medical research organizations? Yes, Canadian healthcare and medical research organizations are moving to the cloud. The cloud market is expected to grow in Canada significantly through 2027. There are several reasons why Canadian healthcare and medical research organizations are moving to the cloud. Reduce costs by […]

GCP – Minimize your ecommerce data TCO with Local SSD and Isima’s bi(OS)
In today’s ecommerce marketplace, consumers want customized experiences, but the costs of acquisition, personalization, fulfillment, and operations are exploding. Data is one way for ecommerce and retail providers to delight consumers cost-effectively. Unfortunately, this valuable data is often spread across marketing channels, in-house IT systems, third-party fulfillment systems, and bespoke operational systems. Inspired by Google’s […]

GCP – How Bank Jago optimized its customer onboarding system with GPU time-sharing and spot instances
At Bank Jago, we are on a mission to help millions of Indonesians get one step closer to their dreams, by delivering innovative money management solutions through a life-centric digital ecosystem. Founded by serial innovators with proven track records in micro-lending and digital banking, we strive to become Indonesia’s pioneering fin-tech solution through the power […]

GCP – ElevenLabs debuts a generative AI solution for spoken content using customizable voices on Google Cloud
Imagine a future in which every piece of content out there can be listened to in any language or voice, at the click of a button, with high-quality intonations and pacing. ElevenLabs, the world’s leading voice AI research organization, is doing just this. Our mission is to make spoken content universally accessible in any language […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive adds support for input thumbnail images
You can now view and access thumbnails from AWS Elemental MediaLive inputs via the AWS Management Console or API. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring expands operating systems and processor support
The Amazon GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring eBPF security agent now supports Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) workloads that use the Bottlerocket operating system, AWS Graviton processors, and AMD64 processors. Additionally, the new agent version (1.2.0) introduces performance enhancements, built-in CPU and memory utilization limits, and support for Amazon EKS 1.27 clusters. If you use […]
AWS – AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Iceberg Tables
AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Iceberg tables, simplifying the adoption of AWS Glue Data Catalog as catalog for Iceberg tables and migrating from other Iceberg catalogs. Apache Iceberg is an open-source table format for data stored in data lakes that helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving data sets while […]