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Azure – Generally Available: Availability zones support for Azure Functions in new regions
You can now use Availability Zones with Azure Functions in Norway East, South Africa North, Switzerland North, and UAE North. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Serverless Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database
Automatically scale compute based on workload demand using serverless for Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database. Read More for the details.

AWS – ENA Express now supports 15 new EC2 Instances
ENA Express now supports 15 new instances including: C6i.32xlarge, C6i.metal, C6id.32xlarge, C6id.metal, M6i.32xlarge, M6i.metal, M6id.32xlarge, M6id.metal, R6i.32xlarge, R6i.metal, R6id.32xlarge, R6id.metal, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.metal, and im4gn.16xlarge. Customers using these instances today can now enable ENA Express with a simple configuration. ENA Express is a networking feature that uses the AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to improve […]

AWS – AWS Network Firewall now supports tag-based resource groups
AWS Network Firewall now supports tag-based resource groups to simplify management of your firewall rules. AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all your Amazon VPCs. With this launch, you can tag and filter AWS resources to centrally manage and reference sets of resources […]

GCP – Introducing new cloud services and pricing for ultimate flexibility
As the saying goes, “it’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.” Some organizations find it challenging to predict what cloud resources they’ll need in months or years ahead. Every organization is on its own unique cloud journey. To help, we’re developing new ways for customers to consume and pay for Google Cloud services. […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: Aible’s serverless journey to challenge the cost vs. performance paradigm
Aible is the leader in generating business impact from AI in less than 30 days by helping teams go from raw data to business value with solutions for customer acquisition, churn prevention, demand prediction, preventative maintenance, and more. These solutions help IT and data teams identify valuable data through automated data validation, enabling collaborative open-world […]

GCP – Meet our Data Champions: Emily Bobis, driving road intelligence in Australia
Editor’s note: This is the second blog in Meet the Google Cloud Data Champions, a series celebrating the people behind data and AI-driven transformations. Each blog features a champion’s career journey, lessons learned, advice they would give other leaders, and more. This story features Emily Bobis, Co-Founder of Compass IoT, an award-winning Australian road intelligence […]

GCP – iNaturalist uses Google Maps Platform to Support Conservation Efforts
Our ecological system is made up of countless species that have evolved over millions of years, and the impacts of habitat loss and climate change are the loss of species every year. iNaturalist is a crowdsourced biodiversity recording platform and a social network for people who love nature that was created as a tool to […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge event buses supports enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas
Amazon EventBridge event buses now supports enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas. Previously, you could use the AWS Service Quotas page to view the default quotas, applied quotas, and also request quota increases for Amazon EventBridge. Now, with enhanced integration, your quota increase requests for limits such as PutEvents transactions-per-second, number of rules, and invocations […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Read More for the details.