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Azure – Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure US Government Cloud
All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure US Government Cloud after February 1, 2023, will be activated via aazkms.core.usgovcloudapi.net, which points to one new KMS IP address, 52.126.105.2. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Logic Apps Standard Support for Functions Runtime V4
Logic apps Standard support for Azure Functions runtime version 4.x – is now generally available. Read More for the details.

GCP – Unleashing the power of BigQuery to create personalized customer experiences
Editor’s note: Wunderkind, a leading performance marketing software, specializes in delivering tailored experiences to individuals at scale. Today, we learn how BigQuery’s high performance drives real-time, actionable decision-making that lets Wunderkind bring large brands closer to their customers. At Wunderkind, we believe in the power of one. Behind every website visit is a living, breathing […]

GCP – Top 10 reasons to get started with Log Analytics today
Logging is a critical part of the software development lifecycle enabling developers to debug their apps, DevOps/SRE teams to troubleshoot issues, and security admins to analyze access patterns. Log Analytics is a new set of features in Cloud Logging available in Preview to help you perform powerful analysis on log data. In this post, we’ll […]

GCP – How to build customer 360 profiles using MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud for data-driven decisions
One of the biggest challenges for any retailer is to track an individual customer’s journey across multiple channels (Online and In-Store), devices, purchases, and interactions. This lack of a single view of the customer leads to a disjointed and inconsistent customer experience. Most retailers report obstacles to effective cross-channel marketing caused by inaccurate or incomplete […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: October 2022
Welcome to October’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re focusing on our just-completed Google Cloud Next conference and Mandiant’s inaugural mWise Conference, and what our slate of cybersecurity announcements can reveal about how we are approaching the thorniest cybersecurity challenges facing the industry today. As I wrote in last month’s newsletter, a big part of […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor is now supported for Batch Transform jobs
You can now monitor the quality of machine learning predictions from Batch Transform jobs in SageMaker using Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor. Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor provides a fully managed experience to monitor models in production, detect deviations, and take timely actions such as auditing or retraining. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS App Runner launches support for PHP, Go, .Net, and Ruby managed runtimes
AWS App Runner now supports PHP 8.1, Go 1.18, .Net 6, and Ruby 3.1 managed runtimes for building and running web applications and APIs. These runtimes enable you to leverage the App Runner “build from source” capability to build and deploy directly from your source code repository without needing to learn the internals of building […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight enables Row Level Security (RLS) on Dataset-as-a-source
Amazon QuickSight launches the new capability for Row Level Security (RLS) on Dataset-as-a-Source. This is a follow-up feature to enhance the security level for the current QuickSight Dataset-as-a-Source feature. Previously, if any of the QuickSight parent datasets is RLS-enabled, the creation of a child dataset from that parent dataset was blocked. Now with the new capability, […]
AWS – CloudWatch RUM now supports Extended CloudWatch Metrics with additional dimensions
Amazon CloudWatch RUM can now send RUM metrics with additional dimensions to CloudWatch. CloudWatch RUM can be used to collect and view your web application’s client-side health and performance. Today, RUM automatically sends aggregated metrics of user session health to CloudWatch Metrics. Now you can add additional dimensions to these default metrics to gain a […]