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Azure – General availability: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
You can now configure your backup policy to move all your eligible and recommended recovery points to vault-archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines, SQL Server/SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for September 2022
Includes the ability to control access to sensitive data, the capability to contrast differences to assess their performance, and the functionality to stop idle compute instances automatically. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Machine Learning—General availability updates for September 2022
New features include the ability to establish event-driven notifications and the capability to label data in text documents using text named-identity recognition. Read More for the details.

GCP – Building reusable Machine Learning workflows with Pipeline Templates
One of the best ways to share, reuse, and scale your ML workflows is to run them as pipelines. To maximize their value, it’s important to build these pipelines in such a way that you can easily reproduce runs that produce similar results, as described in the paper “Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems”. […]

GCP – Google announces new Health Equity Research Initiative to mitigate health disparities
Google is committed to helping everyone, everywhere be healthier. As part of the global health equity community, we have an opportunity to ensure our products, services, and research help everyone live healthier lives. From connecting people to the care they need to advancing new tools to analyze health data, we aim to accelerate health equity […]

GCP – CCAI Platform goes GA: Faster time to value with AI for your Contact Center
Customers reach out to contact centers for help in moments of urgent need, but due to increasing demands, new channels, peak times, and operational pressures, contact centers often struggle to provide timely help. To bridge this gap, enterprises are increasingly investing in AI-driven solutions that balance addressing customer expectations with operational efficiency. But building and […]

GCP – How one startup simplifies passwordless authentication across devices with Google Cloud
Most people find it difficult to remember all the passwords they need for work, home, and school. Although device-native biometrics offer a smoother login experience and stronger security, fingerprint and facial recognition are only supported by a few mobile applications. That’s why we built a solution to provide complete passwordless user authentication in just a […]

GCP – Cloud Monitoring further embraces open source by adding PromQL
As Kubernetes monitoring continues to standardize on Prometheus as a form factor, more and more developers are becoming familiar with Prometheus’ built-in query language, PromQL. Besides being bundled with Prometheus, PromQL is popular for being a simple yet expressive language for querying time series data. It’s been fully adopted by the community, with lots of […]

Azure – Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow events will be retired on 30 September 2025
We are retiring the Azure Monitor ITSM connector feature for creating ServiceNow alerts on 30 September 2025. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Batch TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 March 2023
Retirement notice: Transition to Azure Batch TLS 1.2 by 31 March 2023. Read More for the details.