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GCP – Introducing Duet AI for developers: The next frontier in AI-powered developer productivity
Last week we announced the private preview of Duet AI for Google Cloud, an always-on AI collaborator that uses generative AI to provide help to developers and cloud users. This article gives you a detailed look at Duet AI for developers, showing how Duet AI can help provide developers with real-time code suggestions, chat assistance, […]
GCP – How to monitor IBM MQ instance on Google Cloud with Prometheus metrics
Often, it is challenging to monitor third party applications on Google Cloud that do not have direct support in the cloud Ops agent for collecting telemetry data. As of April, 2023 here is a list of third-party supported applications. IBM MQ (messaging and queuing middleware) is one of the non-supported products by Ops agent that […]
GCP – Making Your Pictures Worth a Thousand Labels! (with Cloud Vision API)
In this post, I’ll be showing some amazing ways the Vision API can extract meaning from your images – keep reading, or jump directly into a tutorial using Python, Node.js, Go, or Java! This tutorial can be completed at no cost within the Google Cloud Free Tier. They say a picture is worth a thousand […]
GCP – Top takeaways from the Unified Commerce Benchmark for Specialty Retail 2023
A new age of consumerism is reshaping commerce. In today’s rapidly evolving ecosystem, delivering a truly unified experience across digital and in-person engagements is central to a retailer’s ability to differentiate. While omnichannel commerce enhances retail by giving consumers a consistent shopping experience across all channels, unified commerce improves the experience even further. What is […]
GCP – Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors
When Google Public Sector was announced in June 2022, it was a sign of Google’s strong commitment in serving the needs of U.S. federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Since then, Google Public Sector has furthered its work to accelerate the digital transformation of U.S. public sector customers. We recently announced that 250,000 […]
AWS – Amazon Braket supports new trapped-ion quantum computer named Aria from IonQ
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, adds support for Aria, IonQ’s largest and highest fidelity publicly available device to date. With Aria, customers can also experiment with IonQ’s built-in error mitigation techniques for the first time, a key tool to get the most out of today’s noisy quantum hardware. Furthermore, customers can now choose […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M6i and R6i database instances in 16 new regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports M6i and R6i in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), Europe (Ireland, London, Paris, Stockholm, Milan, Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Africa (Cape Town), and Middle East (Bahrain). Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Optimize your workloads for reliability using new workbook template in Azure Advisor
Evaluate the reliability posture of your workloads, assess risks and plan improvements using the new Reliability workbook template which is now available in Azure Advisor. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Cost Categories now supports “Usage Type” dimension
AWS Cost Categories has added a new dimension “Usage Type” to its rules. You can now use seven types of dimensions: “Linked Account”, “Charge Type”, “Service”, “Usage Type”, “Cost Allocation Tags”, “Region”, and other “Cost Category” while creating cost categories rules. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Seamlessly upgrade your Application Gateway V2 WAF configuration to a policy
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Application Gateway now supports a fully automated experience when upgrading your WAF from configuration to policy. Read More for the details.