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AWS – Porting Assistant for .NET adds support for assessment and porting of VB.NET applications to .NET Core
Porting Assistant for .NET now supports assessment and porting of legacy .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET language. With this release, Porting Assistant will translate VB.NET class libraries, web APIs, and console applications to .NET Core 3.1, .NET 5, or .NET 6 to simplify the modernization of legacy .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET . […]

Azure – Public preview: Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. Provision the IOPS and throughput you need without necessarily purchasing additional storage capacity. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Timestream announces improved cost-effectiveness with updates to metadata metering
Amazon Timestream will no longer charge customers for the dimension names and measure names associated with ingesting, storing, and querying data written after July 8, 2022 00:00 UTC. Dimension names and measure names are metadata that is used to identify time series data. With this change, Amazon Timestream provides customers increased flexibility in dimension and […]

AWS – AWS Glue now supports smaller instance types for streaming
AWS Glue launches G.025X, a new quarter DPU worker type for streaming extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. This smaller worker type is suitable to process low volume and sporadic data streams. Read More for the details.

GCP – Flock Freight builds a more efficient, resilient and environmentally sustainable shipping supply chain on Google Cloud
Commercial trucks often travel partially empty because many shippers don’t have enough cargo to fill an entire container or trailer. Although offering available space to other shippers helps minimize carbon emissions and reduce operating costs, most trucking companies can’t efficiently schedule, track, or deliver multiple freight loads. Companies have always struggled to ship over-the-road freight […]

Azure – Public preview: OVN-Kubernetes network provider for Azure Red Hat OpenShift
OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) for Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster is now in public preview. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) Overview
Sensitive data can show up in unexpected places—for example, customers might inadvertently send you sensitive data in a customer support chat or file upload. And if you’re using data for analytics and machine learning, it’s imperative that sensitive data be handled appropriately to protect users’ privacy. It’s important to take a holistic look at where […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now enables you to integrate unified customer information into your custom agent applications
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now provides a JavaScript library (CustomerProfilesJS) to integrate Customer Profiles into your homegrown or third-party agent application, equipping your contact center agents with the customer information they need to provide more personalized customer service. Amazon Connect Customer Profiles makes it easier for you to provide agents with quick access to unified customer […]

Azure – Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition
The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker adds ml.g5, ml.p4d, and ml.c6i instances for model deployment
Amazon SageMaker expands access to new ML instances so customers can deploy models on the best instance for their workloads. Now, customers can use ml.g5, ml.p4d, and ml.c6i instances for Asynchronous and Real-time model deployment options. Read More for the details.