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Azure – General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL now available in new regions
Create Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters now in the Sweden Central and Switzerland West regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Updated API names for Azure Cosmos DB
See multiple updated API names in Azure Cosmos DB on product pages, in technical documentation, and billing that will not impact your experience, product functionality, or performance. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Azure Functions extension version 4
Authenticate to Azure Functions with Azure Active Directory using the Azure Cosmos DB extension version 4. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure AD authentication with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
Simplify permission management by using Microsoft Azure Active Directory identities to authenticate with instances of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: 32 TB storage in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Extend storage up to 32 TB to host databases with a size greater than 16 TB for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate
Build a business case in Azure Migrate today to understand the return on investment for migrating your servers, SQL Server deployments and ASP.NET web apps running in your VMware environment to Azure. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch launches Metrics Insights alarms
Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights alarms enables customers to alarm on entire fleets of dynamically changing resources with a single alarm using standard SQL queries. CloudWatch Metrics Insights offers fast, flexible, SQL-based queries. By combining CloudWatch alarms with Metrics Insights queries, customers can now set up dynamic alarms that consistently monitor fast moving environments and alert […]

AWS – Bring ML models built anywhere into Amazon SageMaker Canvas and generate predictions
You can now bring machine learning (ML) models built anywhere into Amazon SageMaker Canvas and generate predictions, to address a wide range of business problems. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any ML experience or having to write a single line […]

GCP – IT prediction: Unified data pipelines will foster more real-time insights
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series on IT predictions from Google Cloud experts. Check out the full list of our predictions on how IT will change in the coming years. Prediction: By 2025, 90% of data will be actionable in real-time using ML A recent survey uncovered that only one-third of […]
GCP – Year in Review for BigQuery User Friendly SQL
Early in the year, we shared the new capabilities that made BigQuery SQL more user-friendly than ever in our Valentine’s Day update. In this year-end edition, we are pleased to walk you through new SQL capabilities that we launched in the categories of Enterprise Class, Data Quality and Schema Operations. Enterprise Class For our enterprise […]