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Azure – Public preview: Exactly once delivery for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing increased AWS IAM Identity Center default quota values
AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) now supports higher default quotas to help you scale your environment. With the increased quota you can create and assign up to 2,000 permission sets in an Identity Center instance. You can also assign up to 100,000 users and 100,000 groups to as many as 3,000 […]

AWS – New FreeRTOS Long Term Support version released
Today, we are excited to announce the second release of FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) – FreeRTOS 202210.00 LTS. This release includes new libraries such as AWS IoT Fleet Provisioning and Cellular LTE-M Interface for easier device provisioning and cellular connectivity. It also includes coreMQTT and FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP libraries with improved modularity and robustness. All libraries […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in one new region
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data. Read More for the details.

GCP – Become a Certified ChromeOS Administrator
We know you are hard at work as ChromeOS administrators. Across the globe, you are managing over 50 million ChromeOS devices. Many of you are managing huge fleets of devices, while others are just starting out on your ChromeOS journey. No matter the size or type of your organization, we’ve got your back. A brand […]

GCP – EVO2CLOUD – Vodafone’s SAP migration from on-prem to Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Vodafone is migrating its SAP system, the backbone for its financial, procurement and HR services, to Google Cloud. Vodafone’s SAP system has been running on-prem for 15 years, during which time it has significantly grown in size, making this one of the largest and one of the most complex SAP migrations in EMEA. […]

Azure – In development: Introducing ExpressRoute Metro
ExpressRoute Metro enables dedicated, private network connections between Azure datacenters and on-premises using Service providers or directly connecting to Microsoft backbone at two different edge sites in single metropolitan area. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for Hindi and Dutch
We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Hindi and Dutch. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, […]

AWS – Amazon RDS now supports automating connectivity set up between an existing RDS or Aurora database and an EC2 compute instance
Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between an existing Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora database and an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instance. From the Amazon RDS console, you can choose an action to set up connection between your RDS or Aurora database and an […]
AWS – AWS Glue Crawlers support incremental Amazon S3 crawling on existing AWS Glue Data Catalog tables
AWS Glue includes crawlers based on Amazon S3 Event Notifications, a capability that make discovering datasets simpler by scanning only data based on events in Amazon S3. The Glue crawler extracts the data schema and automatically populates the AWS Glue Data Catalog, which keeps the metadata current. By crawling datasets based on S3 events, this […]