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GCP – Pathology digitization and the fight against cancer
Everyone who has experienced a loved one’s cancer diagnosis knows how important it is to help patients get the best treatment, faster. Cancer is a leading cause of death, killing nearly 10 million people globally each year. But if caught early, and treated appropriately, many people can recover. We’re proud to have worked in this […]

Azure – General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in December 2022
New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor GA including multiple parameter built-in functions support, Delta Lake format support in ADLS Gen2 output sink. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Use tag inheritance for cost management
Use tag inheritance preview to automatically apply subscription and resource group tags to child resource usage records. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 I4i Instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and South America (São Paulo) regions
Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i Instances are now also available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs. Read More for […]

Azure – Public preview: Log compaction support in Azure Event Hubs
Retain the latest events of an event log by using compacted event hubs or Kafka topics in Azure Event Hubs. Read More for the details.

GCP – Build your API security strategy on these 4 pillars
Savvy leaders at organizations around the world know that digital transformations can create a virtuous flywheel of more and faster innovation, driven by the power of software integration. APIs can facilitate the necessary software integration and communication, and that requires serious consideration of the organization’s API security posture to better protect its data and digital […]

GCP – Building out your support insights pipeline
Getting into the details We wrote previously about how we used clustering to connect requests for support (in text form) to the best tech support articles so we could answer questions faster and more efficiently. In a constantly changing environment (and in a very oddball couple of years) we wanted to make sure we’re focused […]

Azure – Public preview: Processor diagram in Physical Job Diagram for Stream Analytics job troubleshooting
The processor diagram in physical job diagram provides you further insights within the streaming nodes of your stream analytics jobs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS Service Connect now supports AWS Fargate on AWS Graviton Processors
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect now supports AWS Fargate workloads running on AWS Graviton Processors. Service Connect simplifies service discovery, connectivity and traffic observability for Amazon ECS and helps you build applications faster by letting you focus on the application code instead of your networking infrastructure. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana adds support for AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports AWS CloudFormation. You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to create, update, and delete your Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces, as well as manage or update workspace SAML authentication settings. Read More for the details.