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Azure – Community support for PHP 8.0 is ending on 26 November 2023
Community support for PHP 8.0 is ending on 26 November 2023 – transition to PHP 8.1 by that date. Read More for the details.

Azure – Community support for Node 16 LTS is ending on 11 September 2023
Community support for Node 16 LTS is ending on 11 September 2023 – transition to Node 18 LTS by that date. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Availability zone volume placement for Azure NetApp Files
Deploy new Azure NetApp Files volumes in Azure availability zones (AZs) of your choice to support workloads across multiple availability zones. Read More for the details.

GCP – Collegis partners with Google Cloud to unlock value in higher education data
Data can be powerful—but only if it’s able to tell you something insightful and actionable. Higher education institutions suffer from a silo problem: they have enormous amounts of data, but it resides in systems that are disconnected from one another, thus hindering the potential impact. While institutions have talented IT teams, they typically don’t have […]

GCP – How UX researchers make Google Cloud better with user feedback
Customer experiences are critical to user experience (UX) researchers at every level of developing Google Cloud products. Whether it’s migrating a user to Google Cloud, helping them understand it once they are there, or delving into using Cloud services, one thing is clear: learning from the people who use Google Cloud is fundamental. Understanding our […]

GCP – BigQuery’s performance and scale means that everyone gets to play
Editor’s note: Today, we’re hearing from telematics solutions company Geotab about how Google BigQuery enables them to democratize data across their entire organization and reduce the complexity of their data pipelines. Geotab’s telematics devices and an extensive range of integrated sensors and apps record a wealth of raw vehicle data, such as GPS, engine speeds, […]

GCP – Introducing automated failover for private workloads using Cloud DNS routing policies with health checks
High availability is an important consideration for many customers and we’re happy to introduce health checking for private workloads in Cloud DNS to build business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) architectures. Typical BC/DR architectures are built using multi-regional deployments on Google Cloud. In a previous blog post, we showed how highly available global applications can be published […]

AWS – Reduce dimensionality using PCA in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Today, we are excited to announce support for dimensionality reduction using principal components analysis (PCA) in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature […]

AWS – Announcing support for dynamic reference to data sets with parameters in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Today, we are excited to announce the ability to dynamically support different datasets stored on S3 through use of parameters in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process […]
AWS – Schedule data preparation jobs with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Today, we are excited to announce support for scheduling Data Wrangler processing jobs in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, […]