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GCP – Reimagining telecommunications at MWC 2023
Communications Service Providers’ (CSP) services have never been more in demand from consumers and businesses around the world. But to meet that demand, as well as drive new growth and differentiation in the midst of industry disruption, CSPs must themselves transform — including restructuring the cost base of their technology estate, unlocking the full power […]

GCP – Thrive in turbulent times: lower costs and boost productivity with ChromeOS
A new year means a new start to re-evaluate priorities, set goals, and prepare your business for the upcoming months. IT leaders at companies of every size and shape face a critical challenge: how to make progress on multiple major initiatives at the same time. You are working to drive productivity, mitigate security threats, and […]

Azure – Disclosure: In-tree disk and file drivers will no longer be supported starting in Kubernetes v1.26
Migrate your existing in-tree disk and file volumes to CSI drivers using provided guidance. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Detective adds graph visualization for interactive security investigations
Amazon Detective finding groups now include a dynamic visual representation of Detective’s behavior graph to emphasize the relationships between security findings and the associated entities within a finding group. This addition makes it easier for customers to triage potential security issues with at-a-glance visuals that include finding types, severity levels, associated account(s), and linkages within […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.03 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.26) is generally available
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) supports MySQL 8.0.26. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.26 includes several changes, such as enhanced tablespace file segment page configuration and new aliases for certain identifier names. For more details, please review Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.26 release […]

AWS – Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS supports Proactive Insights
Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now supports Proactive Insights, a new set of findings that inform you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical. With Proactive Insights, Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS continuously monitors database instances for potential issues that can lead to degraded database health in the future. When such […]

Azure – General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot
Azure Network Watcher announces enhanced connection troubleshoot helping resolve network connectivity issue comprehensively along with actionable insights Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in West US 3
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Burstable compute for single node configurations for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Use new burstable compute in single node configurations to start small with distributed Postgres and scale out later. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Power BI with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
Integrate Power BI with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server directly from the Azure portal to quickly get started with building your data visualizations! Read More for the details.