Azure to AWS map

Over the years you might have worked with either AWS or Azure as cloud providers, both offer fairly similar services, so the experience in one of them mildly translates into the other one, as long as you know the basics. So here is a map of the services and their brother from another mother. This is a shallow comparison for the main services, with the service purpose and key differences I could think of, so once you know the service name you can do a full investigation. Compute Azure Virtual Machines / EC2 (Elastic compute cloud) When you want to manage your own virtual machines, IaaS, this is the services you are looking at. Azure function / Lambda Sometimes you just need to execute a bit of code, but you don’t need a dedicated virtual machine for that. You can go server-less and use Azure functions or Lambda. Azure App Services / Elastic Beanstalk For running applications in the cloud, without having to worry too much about the servers they are running. They will have dedicated virtual machines under the hood. A key difference…

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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams new AI-based feature will remove background noise Microsoft Teams is getting another excellent feature that will use the company’s artificial intelligence technology to reduce background noise in meetings. Windows 10, 7, and 8.1 users will begin receiving this feature in November 2020. Microsoft Teams noise suppression feature is being improved to seamlessly remove the background noise. For example, this AI-based feature might reduce the sound of clicking pens, mic issues, and other unwelcome background noises. Microsoft has been working on the feature for quite a few months now and the company has been training its AI model using its own internal meetings. The noise suppression feature will analyze your audio feed and use the company’s homegrown deep neural networks to reduce the sound of the background, such as the clicking of the keyboard, noise generated from fans, etc. Microsoft said that this is an update to the existing noise suppression feature and users will now have control over how much noise suppression they want. “The “High” setting is new and will suppress more background noise,” the tech giant noted in a roadmap update. The…

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Windows 10’s God Mode

Windows 10 comes with both the Control Panel and modern Settings, but the modern Settings app provides an unpolished experience with key features missing. Fortunately, Windows 10 still comes with the Control Panel-based advanced configuration page called "God Mode" that allows you to easily access all advanced tools, features, and tasks. God Mode lets you access all management features in one location and it's still better than the modern Windows 10 Settings. God Modes UI is based on Control Panel layout and it's designed to help you quickly configure Windows settings from one screen. Enable God Mode in Windows 10 To access God Mode in Windows 10, you need to create a special shortcut folder on your desktop, as highlighted in the steps below: Login to your account with administrator privileges.On the desktop, right-click anywhere.Select “Create a new folder” option.Right-click the new folder.Rename the folder to the following command:GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}Press enter. As you can see, You can double-click on this folder to open God Mode. When you're in the God Mode folder, you will be presented with a page similar to the screenshot below: Windows 10's…

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