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Azure – Generally available: Simpler way to renaming Network Interface (NIC) and Disks for protected VMs in Azure Site Recovery
This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Resource governance for client applications in Azure Event Hubs
Independently throttle your event streaming workloads using application groups and client applications information at namespace or event hub/Kafka topic level. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Migrate from a Run As account to Managed Identities using Azure Site Recovery
This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Chime SDK launches call analytics
Amazon Chime SDK now offers real-time call analytics to help businesses extract insights from voice conversations. Machine learning (ML) powers call insights include speaker search and voice tone analysis. Customers can gain additional ML-powered intelligence such as turn-by-turn transcripts, customer and agent sentiment, through integrations with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics. These insights can […]

AWS – AWS MGN now supports inventory import and export, server status dashboard, and new modernization actions
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) now supports new migration and modernization features, including import/export of source environment inventory lists, a server migration status dashboard, and new application modernization actions. Application Migration Service helps minimize manual processes by automating the conversion of your source servers to run natively on AWS with optional modernization features. Read […]

AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports Amazon Lex chatbots
Today we are launching the Amazon Chime SDK integration with Amazon Lex for chatbots, enabling builders to develop persistent conversational chat interfaces using a simplified architecture. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen-sharing, and chat capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Amazon Lex provides automatic speech recognition and natural language […]

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Brazil South region
Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Brazil South region. Read More for the details.

GCP – 5 big things you can do at Google Data Cloud & AI Summit this week
Data is at the heart of digital transformation and organizations are looking to find new opportunities to transform customer experiences, boost revenue, and reduce costs. In a new study conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services for Google Cloud, 91% percent of leaders say that democratizing access to data is imperative to business success, and […]

GCP – Helping U.S.-based financial services firms manage third-party due diligence requirements when using Google Cloud
Financial services institutions increasingly rely on external service providers for a variety of technology-related services, including cloud computing. This trend materialized as firms recognized the value in focusing on their core competencies while using third party solutions to gain business, operational, security, resiliency, and other efficiencies. As the financial services sector is one of the […]
GCP – Workload Identity for GKE made easy with open source tools
Google Cloud offers a clever way of allowingGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE) workloads to safely and securely authenticate to Google APIs with minimal credentials exposure. I will illustrate this method using a tool called kaniko. What is kaniko? kaniko is an open source tool that allows you to build and push container images from Kubernetes pods […]