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Azure – Generally available: Azure Container Apps jobs
You can now run production workloads that perform a task for a finite duration and exit, and schedule these workloads or run them in response to events. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Azure Container Apps supports environment level mTLS encryption
You can now encrypt traffic transmitted between applications within an environment using mTLS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Functions .NET 8 support in Linux plans
Azure Functions now supports .NET 8 preview 7, using the isolated worker model. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service supports additional modernization actions
Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) supports additional application validation, configuration and modernization actions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PL/Rust in versions 13 and 14
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the Rust programming language as a new trusted procedural language in PostgreSQL major versions 13 and 14, expanding support for Rust from major version 15. This helps you build high performance user-defined functions to extend PostgreSQL for compute-intensive data processing. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview – Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service
The new Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) allows you to perform seamless migrations from SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL targets using DMS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Universal geo restore on Azure Database for MySQL- Flexible Server
Restore Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server to any Azure supported region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, 11.20. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-August 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-August 2023. Read More for the details.
GCP – Harnessing the power of PaLM in BigQuery
IDC estimates that by 2025, there will be 175 zettabytes of data in the world, and 80% of that data will be unstructured. However, 90% of unstructured data is never analyzed. That’s because it can be cumbersome, expensive and risky to extract and transform unstructured data, requiring multiple tools. As such, it’s rarely used in […]