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Azure – Public preview: Azure Active Directory for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Use Azure Active Directory-based authentication methods using Azure Active Directory principals, managed identities, and groups to connect and access Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Oracle to Azure migration with Database Migration Assessment for Oracle
Migrate from Oracle to Azure Database for PostgreSQL with the Database Migration Assessment for Oracle extension available in Azure Data Studio. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor in Event Hubs
Stream Analytics no-code editor enables you to develop a Stream Analytics job in minutes with drag and drop experience. Now, it is generally available with several new capabilities added. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Job diagram simulator in VS Code
The job diagram simulator provides a capability to visualize your Stream Analytics job’s topology and help you improve the query’s parallelism as you develop your streaming query. Read More for the details.

GCP – At Next ’22, introducing new capabilities for secure transformations
Organizations large and small are realizing that digital transformation and the changing threat landscape require a grounds up effort to transform security. At Google Cloud, we continue to invest in our vision of invisible security where advanced capabilities are engineered into our platforms, operations are simplified, and stronger security outcomes can be achieved. We made […]

GCP – Google Cloud infrastructure enhancements tailored for your workloads
For far too long, cloud infrastructure has focused on raw speeds and feeds of building blocks such as VMs, containers, networks, and storage. Today, Moore’s law is slowing, and the burden of picking the right combination of infrastructure components increasingly falls on IT. At Google Cloud we are committed to removing that burden. We’ve engineered […]

GCP – The future of sustainable flying is data-driven for Lufthansa Group
In the past few years, the airline industry hasannounced its commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions in the next 30 years. Meeting this target will largely depend on the industry’s ability to access sustainable fuel, acquire the latest carbon-friendly aircraft technology, and develop optimization strategies for efficient operations in the air and on the ground. […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 now offers an automated connection set-up solution between EC2 instance and RDS Database
Starting today, in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between the EC2 instances and an Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora database. Once you have provisioned EC2 instances, you can select a RDS db instance or cluster, and with a single click, complete connectivity configurations to […]

AWS – AWS Activate is now open to all startups
AWS Activate provides startups, including both smaller, early stage companies and more advanced digital businesses, with free tools and resources to quickly get started on AWS. Today we are excited to announce the availability of the new AWS Activate to any self-identified startup. Activate is full of personalized tools and resources designed to support startups […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets increases limits on three service quotas
Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets increased the default for three service quotas: number of stack instances per stack set, number of stack sets per management account, and number of concurrent stack instance operations in a single AWS Region per management account. You can now (1) deploy up to 100,000 stack instances per stack set (previously 2,000), (2) […]