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Azure – Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available
Azure Backup now provides an improved experience for creating and using private endpoints for your Recovery Services vaults. Read More for the details.

GCP – Orange: Three unexpected lessons about AI in business
Sometimes it seems like there are two forms of Artificial Intelligence. There is the AI you see in movies, which is hyper intelligent, all-powerful, and probably out to take your job. We could call it sci-fi AI. Then there is the AI that companies like Orange are putting into our day-to-day businesses, often with impressive […]

AWS – Announcing AWS ParallelCluster 3.5 with a new UI for AWS ParallelCluster
AWS ParallelCluster 3.5 is now generally available and expands your choices and flexibility by adding the graphical user interface for AWS ParallelCluster to help you set up, monitor, and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. Other important features in this release include: Enhancements designed to improve visibility for cluster errors during compute node […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Cases now supports AWS PrivateLink
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon Connect Cases from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the public internet. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Middle East (UAE) region
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics reduces the complexity of building and managing Apache Flink applications. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink integrates with […]

AWS – Amazon Detective launches an interactive workshop for investigating potential security issues
You can now learn to use Amazon Detective with a new self-paced workshop in AWS Workshop Studio. AWS Workshop Studio is a collection of self-paced tutorials designed to teach practical skills and techniques to solve business problems. Amazon Detective Workshop is designed to teach you how to use the primary features of Detective through a […]

Azure – Public preview: New General-Purpose VMs – Dlsv5 and Dldsv5
The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you schedule service software updates during off-peak hours
Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you schedule service software and auto-tune updates during off-peak hours, helping you plan deployments to your domain better. In addition, with improved notifications through EventBridge events, and notifications on the OpenSearch Service console, you have better visibility of scheduled updates, when the updates start, and complete. Read More for the […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Cases is now available in 5 additional regions
Amazon Connect Cases can now be used by Amazon Connect customers in the Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) AWS regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Read-write premium caching now in public preview
Now you can do more with Azure HPC Cache at the same cost you’ve come to expect. Read More for the details.