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GCP – Google Cloud at I/O: Everything you need to know
We love this time of year. This week is Google I/O, our largest developer conference, where developer communities from around the world come together to learn, catch up, and have fun. Google Cloud and Google Workspace had a big presence at the show, talking about our commitment to building intuitive and helpful developer experiences to […]

GCP – Google Cloud unveils world’s largest publicly available ML hub with Cloud TPU v4, 90% carbon-free energy
At Google, the state-of-the-art capabilities you see in our products such as Search and YouTube are made possible by Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), our custom machine learning (ML) accelerators. We offer these accelerators to Google Cloud customers as Cloud TPUs. Customer demand for ML capacity, performance, and scale continues to increase at an unprecedented rate. […]

GCP – Introducing AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: Free yourself from expensive, legacy databases
Enterprises are struggling to free themselves from legacy database systems, and need an alternative option to modernize their applications. Today at Google I/O, we’re thrilled to announce the preview of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service that provides a powerful option for modernizing your most demanding enterprise database workloads. Compared with standard PostgreSQL, […]

GCP – AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Intelligent, database-aware storage
Today, at Google I/O, we announced AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database for demanding, enterprise-grade transactional and analytical workloads. Imagine PostgreSQL plus the best of the cloud: elastic storage and compute, intelligent caching, and AI/ML-powered management. Further, AlloyDB delivers unmatched price-performance: In our performance tests, it’s more than 4x faster on transactional workloads, and […]

GCP – Introducing new AI to help people thrive in hybrid work
We’ve been using machine learning in Google Workspace for some years to help make people’s work day more productive and impactful. Today, we’re announcing new features in Google Workspace that tap into our industry-leading AI to help people thrive and get more done in a hybrid work world. We hear from customers—and observe in many […]

Azure – Public preview: Static Web Apps support skipping API builds via Azure pipelines
You can now skip the default API build via Azure pipelines. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Container Apps now support log streaming and console connect
You can now connect to a container console and use live log streaming for testing and diagnosis. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: IT Service Management Integration with secure webhook
IT Service Management is now integrated with secure webhook, an updated version that allows you to create work items in an ITSM tool when Azure Monitor sends alerts. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Minor versions upgrade for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
Run the most stable, compliant, and secure MySQL community versions 8.0.28 and 5.7.37 on Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure SQL—Generally available updates for early May 2022
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL. Read More for the details.