Here are this weeks major announcements and news for doing data science in the cloud.

Microsoft Azure

• Microsoft and Salesforce form Partnership
  While not just for data science, this is big news. Azure has become the cloud provider for the Salesforce marketing cloud.
• GitHub Actions for Azure go GA
  GitHub actions can now deploy databases and fire off pipelines in Azure
• Announcing FarmBeats
  All about using AI and ML on the farm.

Amazon AWS

• Tableau and AWS launch Modern Cloud Analytics program
  Helping customers with a cloud-based analytics strategy
• AWS launched Data Exchange
  A new service for finding and using third-party data in the cloud
• AWS Step Functions Data Science SDK for SageMaker
  Introducing an open source library for preprocessing, training, and deploying models with Amazon SageMaker

Google Cloud

• Advancing API Ops with ML and AI
  Monitor your APIs and automate the actions
• Contact Center AI goes GA
  AI powered virtual agents