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Azure – Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Java 17
You can now use the latest LTS version of Java with Azure Functions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: Durable Functions support for Java
Durable Functions make it easy to orchestrate stateful workflows as-code in a serverless environment. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: Azure Functions Extension Bundle v4
The latest Azure Functions Extension Bundle is now generally available. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Functions support for Python 3.10
You can now take advantage of Python 3.10 features with Azure Functions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Arc enabled Azure Container Apps
You can now run Azure Container Apps on your own Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters (AKS and AKS-HCI). Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure NetApp Files cross-zone replication
Replicate Azure NetApp Files volumes from one availability zone to another in a fast and cost-effective way, protecting your data from unforeseeable zone failures. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support
Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support Read More for the details.

GCP – Help users discover more with new Places API updates
The Places API provides you with business information, ratings, reviews and more for over 200 million businesses and places around the world. Starting today, we’re starting to roll out more attributes that reflect some of the most highly-requested information about places. These Place details and attributes play an important role in keeping existing customers informed, […]

GCP – B4A achieves beautiful performance for its beauty platform with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
Editor’s note: B4A, a Brazilian company that runs a beauty e-commerce platform, recently migrated their database to AlloyDB and saw performance accelerate by 90 percent across their queries. Now the company is looking for further gains in management and ease of use by migrating to other fully managed database solutions from Google. B4A is a […]
GCP – Partnering with next-gen core banking providers to transform financial services
Incumbent financial services institutions (FSIs) are currently in the midst of a generational shift in enterprise technology toward cloud. These institutions are making a bet that cloud can help accelerate their digital transformation journey and give them the speed, agility, and scalability needed to compete with fintech. A foundational piece of this transition is around […]