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GCP – Coop reduces food waste by forecasting with Google’s AI and Data Cloud
Although Coop has a rich history spanning nearly 160 years, the machine learning (ML) team supporting its modern operations is quite young. Its story began in 2018 with one simple mission: to leverage ML-powered forecasting to help inform business decisions, such as demand planning based on supply chain seasonality and expected customer demand. The end […]

GCP – Google Cloud and FS-ISAC team up to advance financial services security
Google Cloud is committed to strengthening the security and resiliency of financial services organizations and making the Internet a safer place for all organizations to conduct transactions and business. While building a secure and resilient ecosystem is a joint responsibility, we want to ensure that we’re working together to build a community of trust. To […]

GCP – Helping Arapahoe County operate more efficiently with Google Cloud
Arapahoe, Colorado’s first county, has been focused on cultivating growth opportunities for its residents for more than 150 years1. Home to roughly 655,000 people from diverse backgrounds, Arapahoe County is projected to be one of the largest counties in Colorado within ten years2. The County supports a variety of industries, including ranching, technology, and aviation […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon Linux 2023
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), our new Linux-based operating system for AWS that is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. AL2023 provides seamless integration with various AWS services and development tools and offers optimized performance for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) […]

Azure – Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.11 now available
Take advantage of the features in OpenShift version 4.11. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: Durable Functions support of managed identity for Azure Storage
You can now use an identity-based connection to access Azure Storage, instead of embedding secrets in connection strings. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: New Azure Monitor audit logging policy released
Azure Monitor is announcing the release of new Azure Policy built-in policies and initiatives for enabling platform logging of audit events for Azure services. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Apps, Logic Apps
Use the Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server connector to connect to MySQL data and build with Power Apps and Logic Apps. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Microsoft SharePoint Cloud Connector
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Microsoft SharePoint Cloud Connector to index and search documents from SharePoint Cloud. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Metric charts support for split-by operations on multiple dimensions
Azure Portal metric charts will now enable customers to analyze metrics on their Azure resources by supporting the split-by operator on more than one dimension. Read More for the details.