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Week at Glance: Cloud Computing #90- 14.12.21 - 21.01.22

Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for $69 billion. 

Microsoft announced that it is in the final phase of acquiring one of the largest game developers, Activision Blizzard, in a deal estimated at around 70 billion dollars by the Wall Street Journal. With the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft will add a significant number of studios to its gaming ecosystem. As well as a list of some of the most profitable series ever, including Call of Duty, Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch and even Candy Crush, as the mobile giant King belongs to Activision.

AWS Launches a New Console Home Page to Manage Cloud Resources

AWS launched a version of the AWS Management Console. Through the home page of the console, customers can have access to each service console, and it offers a single place to access the information they need to perform their AWS related tasks.

Google Cloud Spanner Dialect for SQLAlchemy is Generally Available

Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of the Spanner dialect enabling SQLAlchemy applications to run on the distributed SQL database management and storage service.