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AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now available in additional regions
AWS Elemental MediaTailor is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and US East (Ohio) regions. You may now configure and operate MediaTailor using the console or API endpoints within these new regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Microsoft Purview access policies for SQL Server 2022
Author policies that govern the access to Active Directory users directly from Azure to all your SQL Server 2022 data sources at scale. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview of Viewing SQL Server Databases via Azure Arc
Surfaces all the active databases and their configurations for each of the Arc-enabled SQL Servers in Azure. Read More for the details.

GCP – Get migrating in 2023: join our upcoming fireside chat featuring Forrester
Editor’s note: just looking to register for the fireside chat on January 31st? Here you go! You probably already know that cloud migration continues to be a huge priority for organizations across the globe. But what may surprise you is all the ways priorities, projects, and outcomes have changed in the last few years. For […]

GCP – Log Analytics in Cloud Logging is now GA
Solving big problems usually takes a combination of the right people and the right tools. SRE, DevOps, and IT operations teams in organizations both big and small have used Google Cloud’s built-in logging service, Cloud Logging, to troubleshoot faster, recognize trends easier, and scale operations more effectively. Additionally, customers have been building homegrown solutions that […]

GCP – A reference architecture for transforming insurance claims processing with Google Cloud
Transforming the customer experience of insurance claims processing is a key driver for transforming the insurance claims process itself. This needs a holistic approach to addressing different aspects of the claims processing workflow and modernizing the data that claims processing heavily relies on. Transforming claims processing can help reduce the manual touches from the process […]

GCP – Using IPv6 Unique Local Addresses for private connectivity in Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Google Cloud supports a wide range of IPv6 capabilities. For an overview, check out this blog. When people talk about the IPv4 Address exhaustion problem, it’s usually in the context of the public IPv4 space. When IPv6 was introduced, the primary goal was to fix the address exhaustion problem by allocating internet-accessible addresses […]

GCP – How to deploy Tink for BigQuery encryption on-prem and in the cloud
Data security is a key focus for organizations moving their data warehouses from on-premises to cloud-first systems, such as BigQuery. In addition to storage-level encryption, whether using Google-managed or customer-managed keys, BigQuery also provides column-level encryption. Using BigQuery’s SQL AEAD functions, organizations can enforce a more granular level of encryption to help protect sensitive customer […]

GCP – Self-service analytics finally gets real for the Connected Sheet
Today’s workplace is getting more and more data intensive. This is why, even in a modern data stack world full of incredible business intelligence tools, “good ol’ reliable” spreadsheets are still commonly used to wrangle data problems big and small. Data is everywhere, so why aren’t insights? While companies recognize the value data can provide […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder can now include AWS Marketplace subscriptions in your custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
Now customers can search AWS Marketplace Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) directly in the EC2 Image Builder Console and use those AMIs as base images in their image build workflows. Those AMIs can be accessed and used via the EC2 Image Builder Console, CLI, API, CloudFormation and CDK interfaces. This feature makes it easier for you […]