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AWS – AWS Lambda support for AWS X-Ray now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda support for AWS X-Ray is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With AWS Lambda support for AWS X-Ray, you can easily enable X-Ray tracing for your functions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Trusted Launch support for DCsv3 and DCdsv3 series Virtual Machines
DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) now supports trusted launch feature. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Synapse Analytics Spark elastic pool storage
Reduce job failures by using elastic pool storage. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.07
The 22.07 release includes reduced connect-to-cloud time for the OS, resulting in lower energy use; best practices guidance for production-ready applications; and optimized manufacturing scripts. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Systems Manager announces a simplified onboarding experience for Application Manager
Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces today a simplified onboarding experience for customers. Application Manager is a central hub on AWS to create, view and operate applications from a single console. With Application Manager, customers can discover and manage their resources across multiple AWS services like AWS CloudFormation, AWS Launch Wizard, AWS […]

AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for recently visited services feature
AWS Console Mobile Application users can now easily view and access their recently visited AWS services that are supported in the mobile application for iOS and Android. A user’s recently visited AWS services are synchronized between their mobile and web experiences. The recently visited services feature is available at the bottom of the Dashboard screen […]

GCP – Get to know the top 3 teams of the Google Cloud Hackathon Singapore
Google Cloud hackathon On 10th April 2022, Google Cloud launched the first Singapore Google Cloud Hackathon, where startup teams were tasked to build solutions for either the topics of Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, Automation or the New Normal, to create innovative solutions and have the opportunity to win prizes. From April to 10th June, Google Cloud […]

GCP – Managing the Looker ecosystem at scale with SRE and DevOps practices
Many organizations struggle to create data-driven cultures where each employee is empowered to make decisions based on data. This is especially true for enterprises with a variety of systems and tools in use across different teams. If you are a leader, manager, or executive focused on how your team can leverage Google’s SRE practices or […]

GCP – Data Intensive Applications with GKE and MariaDB SkySQL
With Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), customers get a fully managed environment to automatically deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on Google Cloud. Kubernetes has become a preferred choice for running not only stateless workloads (e.g. Web Services) but also for stateful applications (e.g. databases). According to the Data on Kubernetes report, over 70% of Kubernetes […]
GCP – Top 5 Takeaways from Google Cloud’s Data Engineer Spotlight
In the past decade, we have experienced an unprecedented growth in the volume of data that can be captured, recorded and stored. In addition, the data comes in all shapes and forms, speeds and sources. This makes data accessibility, data accuracy, data compatibility, and data quality more complex than ever more. Which is why this […]