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Azure – App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment version 3 by 31 August 2024. Read More for the details.
GCP – An update on Google Cloud’s commitments to E.U. businesses in light of the new E.U.-U.S. data transfer framework
Last week, the European Commission and U.S. Government agreed on a new E.U.-U.S. data transfer framework. Earlier today, Google shared that it welcomes these efforts by the U.S. government to enhance privacy protections for E.U. data and facilitate trusted transatlantic data flows. For our Google Cloud customers, we intend to make the protections offered by […]
Azure – Generally available: Copy data directly to Archive Storage with Data Box
You can now use Data Box to copy data directly to Archive tier by indicating this when ordering and then copying to the corresponding share on the Data Box. Read More for the details.
Azure – In development: New planned datacenter region in India (India South Central)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region to India, including availability zones. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry extends support to Go language
Amazon EventBridge schema registry now supports Go language for generating code bindings for event schemas, making it easier to use your schema as objects in your code. You can generate these code bindings for a schema by using the EventBridge console, APIs, or AWS SDK toolkits for Jetbrains (Intellij, PyCharm, Webstorm, Rider) and VS Code. […]
AWS – Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now offers real-time streaming for higher scale and low latency scenarios
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now supports real-time streaming that helps businesses access Contact Lens analytics in real-time, eliminating the need to constantly make requests from existing Contact Lens API with rate limitations. The real-time streaming also offers additional data segments that consist of sentence-by-sentence transcripts for low latency requirements. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover
Integrating Site Recovery with capacity reservation to reserve compute capacity in the disaster recovery region and use that for failover. Read More for the details.
GCP – How to Scale and Secure your Cloud Management for Defense Applications
Department of Defense (DoD) organizations worldwide have scalability, performance, and usability constraints across their cloud access points due to legacy networking architectures. These difficulties, paired with increased security threats and broader calls for innovation across DoD, are driving agency leaders to embrace a new kind of networking infrastructure that offers the latest in both existing […]
GCP – Clouds in the cloud: Weather forecasting in Google Cloud
Weather forecasting and climate modeling are two of the world’s most computationally complex and demanding tasks. Further, they’re extremely time-sensitive and in high demand — everyone from weekend travelers to large-scale industrial farming operators wants up-to-date weather predictions. To provide timely and meaningful predictions, weather forecasters usually rely on high performance computing (HPC) clusters hosted […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machines
Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machine’s in user-subscription mode and is offered at a significantly reduced price compared with dedicated virtual machines. Read More for the details.