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Azure – Public preview: Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium tier
You can now use this feature to upgrade your Azure Front Door Standard profile to Premium tier without downtime. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Front Door zero downtime migration
You can use this feature to migrate Azure Front Door (classic) to Azure Front Door Standard and Premium with zero downtime. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Maps Creator feature – Wayfinding
Wayfinding in Azure Maps Creator enables you to provide your users with the shortest path between two points within a facility. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Front Door integration with managed identities
Azure Front Door Standard and Premium supports enabling managed identities for Azure Front Door to access Azure Key Vault. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing Private Marketplace, now in preview
Google Cloud Marketplace is home to a wide variety of useful products for organizations across industries. The great selection it provides can create challenges, however, for cloud administrators who want to ensure that employees within their organization can easily view IT-vetted and approved applications. For example: when faced with such a broad range of products, […]

GCP – Google Kubernetes Engine Gateway controller is now GA for single cluster deployments
Back in July, the Kubernetes community announced the graduation of the Gateway API to beta, a big milestone for the group of people shaping the future of this networking API that defines the routing intent into a Kubernetes cluster, and even beyond, with service mesh capabilities through the GAMMA initiative. The Gateway API is the […]

GCP – Sarah Masotti has worked and traveled across 60 countries — here’s how she channels her own experiences to help customers transform their businesses
Editor’s note: Sarah Masotti is a Digital Transformation Lead at Google Cloud, where she works with customers like Unilever, British Telecom, HSBC, and WPP. She excels at identifying innovation opportunities, and bringing them to life through Google’s products and services, and change management and transformation programmes, all with an innovative mindset. What is the coolest […]

GCP – 4 low-effort, high-impact ways to cut your GKE costs (and your carbon footprint)
Controlling cloud costs is always top-of-mind for organizations. But how? It can be difficult to surface wasted resources and figure out how best to optimize them without sacrificing performance or availability. Here on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) team, we’re eager to help in any way we can. And after participating in some recent capacity […]

Azure – Generally available: Static Web Apps support for skipping API builds
You can skip the default API builds via GitHub Actions and Azure pipelines. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Static Web Apps support for stable URLs for preview environments
Use stable URLs with Azure Static Web Apps preview environments. Read More for the details.