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AWS – AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now supports Ubuntu 22.04
Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports patch deployments for instances running Ubuntu 22.04. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch nodes with both security related and other types of updates across your infrastructure. Patch Manager supports a variety of common operating systems, including Windows Server, Amazon Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise […]

AWS – AWS Clean Rooms is now Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible
AWS Clean Rooms is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service, enabling covered entities and their business associates to use AWS Clean Rooms to process, maintain, and store protected health information. If you have an executed Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS, you can now use AWS Clean Rooms […]

Azure – Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
Policy analytics for Azure Firewall, now in general availability, provides enhanced visibility into traffic flowing through Azure Firewall, enabling the optimization of your firewall configuration without impacting your application performance. Read More for the details.

Azure – Private preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys Read More for the details.

Azure – General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
This is a GA launch announcement blog for Azure Monitor for SAP solutions. Read More for the details.

GCP – How Glance is collaborating with Google to build a next-level Gaming Recommendation engine
Mobile gaming has exploded in popularity in recent years, with billions of people around the world playing games on their smartphones and tablets. Glance, a subsidiary of InMobi, is one of the world’s largest lock screen-based content discovery platforms with over 220 million active users. Redefining the way people use their mobile phone lock screen, […]

GCP – Cloud Workstations is now GA, with new capabilities and integrations
The trend of remote work over the last few years motivated the developer community to explore new ways to collaborate, and search for new tools to address the productivity challenges that arise from this lasting change. We’ve heard from our customers that the shift to remote collaboration tools, while necessary, is both technically and culturally […]

GCP – Transform your legacy apps with a ‘lean modernization’ approach
As companies are increasingly reliant on digital services to interact with their customers, business partners and employees, application modernization projects are getting higher priority due to the inability of older applications to meet the current demands of the business. In a recent ESG survey1 86% of organizations stated that they run production workloads on public […]

GCP – Deploying your Generative AI model in only four steps with Vertex AI and PyTorch
Foundational models are trained on extensive unlabeled data and used for downstream generative AI tasks, such as text, images, and music generation. They are increasingly popular as businesses explore their potential to create new products and services. You can use foundational models for use cases like image generation. Diffusion models are generative models that have […]
GCP – Google Cloud and SAP: Faster outcomes, more value from data
Last week, we announced an extensive expansion of our partnership with SAP, jointly offering customers an open data solution that puts data and analytics at the heart of business transformation based on SAP Datasphere and Google Cloud Cortex Framework on BigQuery. Co-engineering this groundbreaking solution has strengthened our partnership, and it will help our customers […]