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Azure – GA: Online live resize of persistent volumes
Scale up persistent volumes without taking the application offline. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Confidential containers on ACI
ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE) Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: 4 TiB, 8 TiB, and 16 TiB storage per node for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Onboard even larger distributed Postgres workloads to Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with fewer nodes using 4 TiB, 8 TiB, or 16 TiB storage per node. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Read replicas – Geo-Paired Regions – Azure Database for MySQL- Flexible Server
The Read Replica in Geo-Paired Region feature replicates Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server data to a read-only server in a geo-paired region, for example, to serve read-only traffic. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Login and TDE-enabled database migrations with Azure Database Migration Service
Provide a secure and improved user experience for migrating TDE databases and SQL/Windows logins to Azure SQL. Read More for the details.

GCP – Women’s History Month: Celebrating the success of women founders — STEM Minds
Editor’s note: March is celebrated as Women’s History Month in the US. At Google, we’re proud to celebrate women from all backgrounds and are committed to increasing the number of women in the technology industry. Over the next few weeks, we will showcase women-led startups and how they use Google Cloud to grow their businesses. […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery and Google AI: How Glean enhances enterprise search quality and relevance for teams
Context AboutGlean Glean searches across all your company’s apps to help you find exactly what you need and discover the information you need to do your best work. It delivers powerful, unified enterprise search across all workplace applications, websites, and data sources used within an enterprise. Search results respect the existing permissions from your company’s […]

GCP – Shorten the path to insights with Aiven for Apache Kafka and Google BigQuery
Every company aims to be data driven, but bringing accurate data in front of the right stakeholders in a timely manner can be quite complex. The challenge arises even more when the source data resides in different technologies, with various access interfaces and data formats. This is where the combination of Aiven for Apache Kafka® […]

GCP – Node hosting on Google Cloud: a pillar of Web3 infrastructure
Blockchain nodes are the physical machines that power the virtual computer that comprises a blockchain network and store the distributed ledger. There are several types of blockchain nodes, such as: RPC nodes, which DApps, wallets, and other blockchain “clients” use as their blockchain “gateway” to read or submit transactions Validator nodes, which secures the network […]
AWS – Code scans for Lambda functions within Amazon Inspector now in preview
Amazon Inspector now supports code scanning of Lambda functions, expanding the existing capability to scan Lambda functions and associated layers for software vulnerabilities in application package dependencies. With this expanded capability, Amazon Inspector now also scans the custom proprietary application code within a Lambda function for code security vulnerabilities such as injection flaws, data leaks, […]