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Today's deep dive is into Microsoft Azure Functions, a serverless computing service that enables developers to build event-driven applications with minimal infrastructure management. Could you let us know in the comments what topics we should cover next?

Today's deep dive details how to set up billing alerts within Amazon CloudWatch. It explains how to enable billing alerts, create alarms based on estimated charges exceeding a specified threshold (using the 'Total Estimated Charge' metric), and subsequently delete these alarms. 

This deep dive discusses Google Cloud SQL documentation and describes a fully managed relational database service supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. It details features including high availability, backups, and automated updates, highlighting the reduction in administrative overhead for users.  What do you think we should cover next?

This Microsoft deep dive details the new features of Windows Server 2025.  Significant improvements  are highlighted across security, performance, and administration, including enhancements to Active Directory, SMB, and Hyper-V.  The upgrade process  from previous versions and new features like Hotpatch and Dev Drive are explained.

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Confidential VMs utilise hardware-based memory encryption , providing  isolation  and  attestation  to protect data and applications from unauthorised access. What topic should we talk about next?

This deep dive talks about using SUSE HA extension to make a virtual machine highly available

Today's deep dive explains the different types of load balancers when to use each one, and how they are set up. It also shows how to manage them using Google Cloud's tools.

Looker  from Google Cloud is a product that helps you explore, share, and visualise your company's data so that you can make better business decisions. 

Today, we dive deeply into Apple Intelligence, a new AI system integrated into Apple devices. What do you think we should do next?

A follow-up to the previous episode. Enjoy!

Today, we answered one of our listeners' requests for a deep dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot. What do you think we should do next?

Today we take a deep dive into a ResearchGate paper that explores the impact of artificial intelligence on child development. let us know which topic we should cover next.

In Today's Deep Dive, we provide a guide for building a basic static web app using Azure Static Web Apps. Enjoy! Feel free to suggest topics for us to discuss.

Today's deep dive concerns GPU machine types available on Google Cloud Platform's Compute Engine. Enjoy!

Today, we discuss Hyperdisk, a new generation of network block storage service designed for high-performance, mission-critical applications. Enjoy!

 Today's deep dive will guide you in creating an EC2 Fleet on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It explains the prerequisites, including a launch template, service-linked role, permissions for encrypted AMIs and EBS snapshots, and permissions for EC2 Fleet users.  Enjoy!

Imagine two friends who live far apart and want to send secret messages. Instead of sending them through regular mail, where anyone could read them, they put the messages in a locked box and sent them through a unique, protected delivery service. Only they have the keys to unlock the box. Cloud VPN works the same way but for computer data. That's the topic for today Enjoy!

Ever wondered how Netflix works? In today's episode, we give a comprehensive guide to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which Netflix runs on.

Have you ever wondered how an AI chatbot works? Today, we talk about Google's own Gemini. I hope you enjoy it. Please leave your comments.

Today we talk about Google cloud Compute Engine's  sole-tenancy  feature. This feature allows users to isolate virtual machines (VMs) on dedicated physical servers

Today's episode we talk about Azure Dedicated Hosts: a service that enables users to reserve physical servers in Azure for exclusive use

Today, we will show you the best deployment strategy for your cloud workloads. Enjoy!

A guide to migrating virtual machines to Google Cloud using the Migrate to Virtual Machines tool Enjoy!

Today we talk about the bad boys of computing 'GPUs' and how to create them. Enjoy!