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Azure – General availability: HNSW vector index in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
The HNSW vector index is now generally available in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL geo-redundant backup and restore
Store cluster backup in another region. Restore cluster in the primary or another region. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features
Explore advanced disaster recovery with Virtual Endpoints and seamless role-swapping in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Filtered vector search in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB improves its vector search capabilities with filtered vector search, now in preview. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Semantic caching with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Leverage historical LLM responses with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain! Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: Index Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB helps optimize your index policy for NoSQL queries
Reduce RU-costs and improve query speeds with Index Advisor! Read More for the details.

GCP – Modernization vs. migration for data workloads
Cloud migration involves moving digital assets like data, apps, and infrastructure to a cloud environment. In particular, data and data platforms are essential for application, analytical, or AI/ML workloads; thus, it’s common to migrate existing data from other platforms, including on-premises or even other cloud providers. For most organizations, determining what to do with their […]

GCP – Google Cloud Innovator Juan Guillermo Gómez on transforming AI and the importance of community
Google Cloud Champion Innovators are a global network of more than 600 non-Google professionals, who are technical experts in Google Cloud products and services. Each Champion specializes in one of nine different technical categories which are cloud AI/ML, data analytics, hybrid multi-cloud, modern architecture, security and networking, serverless app development, storage, Workspace and databases. In […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights provides execution plan for RDS SQL Server
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now collects the query execution plans of the resource-intensive SQL queries in Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and stores them over time. It helps you identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of performance degradation or stalled query. Read More for the details.
GCP – Caliptra: Building trust, one chip at a time
At Google, we build sustainable, secure, and scalable hardware and software to enable services that support billions of users. We have embraced open innovation as a core tenet to deliver these experiences. Our society’s AI-driven future includes many types of system-on-chips (SoCs) acting in concert with each other — from CPUs to GPUs to TPUs […]