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GCP – Collaborative research in immunology with the Allen Institute and Google Cloud
Previously in the background, immunology has become a mainstream topic in the past few years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Immunologists’ roles are challenging, as they need to collect and systematically analyze large amounts of biomedical data about the immune system itself, as well as clinical data to understand human health and disease progression. This […]

GCP – Google Cloud simplifies customer verification and benefits processing with Document AI for Identity cards
If you’ve opened an account at a bank, applied for a government benefit, or provided a proof of age document on an ecommerce website, chances are you’ve had to share a physical or digital copy of a Driver’s License or a passport as proof of your identity. For businesses or public sector organizations that need […]

GCP – Bringing the power of Google Meet to Google Duo users
Bringing the power of Google Meet to Google Duo users The past few years have accelerated and deepened our use of video communications to stay in touch with our friends and loved ones, learn new things, celebrate milestones, and even welcome new family members. To support the millions of users who rely on our technology […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts are now available on AWS Outposts
Today, we are announcing support for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Dedicated Hosts on AWS Outposts, which makes it easier for customers to bring their existing software licenses and workloads that require a dedicated physical server to their Outpost Racks. In addition, customers now have greater flexibility in instance type deployment and more granular placement […]

AWS – AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports multiple staging and target accounts
We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) has added support for multiple staging and target accounts. Today you can replicate and protect up to 300 source servers per AWS account. By using multiple staging and target accounts, you can now also recover up to 3,000 replicating source servers into any target AWS […]

GCP – Cloud Storage as a File System in Vertex AI Workbench Notebooks
Cloud Storage as a File System in Vertex AI User Managed Notebooks What if I told you there is no need to `gsutil cp -r `? If you’ve developed machine learning models before, you know that data quality and governance issues are predominant. When developing models, you’ll spin up a Vertex AI Workbench Jupyter Notebook […]

Azure – Generally available: Budget alert supports action groups with common alert schema
Azure cost management budget alert now supports action groups with common alert schema. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Switzerland North Availability Zones
Three new zones provide you with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Bastion IP based connection
You can now use Azure Bastion to connect to on-premises resources over ExpressRoute and Site-to-Site VPN Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Athena connector for Amazon Lookout for Metrics
AWS Lookout for Metrics announces the launch of the Athena connector, a new connector in Lookout for Metrics that allows you to query data from various data sources such as Data Lake on AWS, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift to ingest into Amazon Lookout for Metrics for anomaly detection. The Athena connector reduces the need to setup complex […]