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AWS – Amazon Braket SDK adds support for near-real time cost tracking
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, makes it easier for customers to conduct scientific research and software development with quantum computers. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of a new cost tracking function in our Braket SDK, providing customers the ability to monitor their quantum computing costs more easily and quickly. Rather than […]

GCP – How to overcome 5 common SecOps challenges
Editor’s note: This blog was originally published by Siemplify on April 12, 2022. The success of the modern security operations center, despite the infusion of automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, remains heavily dependent on people. This is largely due to the vast amounts of data a security operations center must ingest—a product of an […]

AWS – AWS Glue Streaming ETL Auto Scaling is now generally available
Auto Scaling in AWS Glue Streaming ETL is now generally available. AWS Glue Streaming ETL jobs can now dynamically scale resources up and down based on the input stream. Auto Scaling helps customers reduce the cost and manual effort required to optimize resources by allocating the right resources necessary for Streaming ETL jobs. Read More […]

AWS – AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) adds support for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) customer managed policies (CMPs)
AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) now supports AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) customer managed policies (CMPs) and permission boundary policies within AWS SSO permission sets. The new capability helps AWS SSO customers to improve their security posture by creating larger and finer-grained policies for least privilege access and by tailoring policies to reference the […]

Azure – Public preview: Blob CSI support in AKS
You can now use built in storage classes for NFS and BlobFuse to provision new persistent volumes backed by Azure Blob storage. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Load Testing now displays load engine health metrics
You can view engine health metrics to understand the performance of the test engine during the run, enabling confidence in the test results and better test configuration. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Load Testing – additional metrics for pass/fail criteria
Azure Load Testing now supports additional client metrics (in addition to response time and error percentage) and aggregate functions on client metrics to define pass/fail criteria for a test. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Spring Apps feature updates
New Azure Spring Apps updates and features for basic/standard and enterprise tiers are in preview. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Tag filtering in Azure Advisor
Tag filtering is now available in Azure Advisor Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Microsoft Cost Details API
The API now available for Enterprise Agreements and Microsoft Customer Agreements provides on-demand downloads of the cost details associated with your Microsoft charges. Read More for the details.