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AWS – AWS launches enhanced AWS Startups experience featuring AWS Build
Today, AWS Startups introduced an improved AWS Startups experience that brings together startup resources and programs in one central location; including credits, accelerators, learning resources, and Showcase, an interactive directory where startups can promote their business to potential customers and partners. Through this experience, startups can register for AWS Activate, the leading program helping startups […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches real-time conversational analytics in Asia Pacific (Singapore) region
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides real-time conversational analytics for voice in Asia Pacific (Singapore) region, enabling businesses to get transcription, sentiment analysis, supervisor alerts, and more during live customer calls. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Sphere (Integrated) Public Preview
We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure Sphere (Integrated), a new management interface for Azure Sphere services that is natively integrated with Azure via the Azure Resource Manager. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall
Structured Logs and Latency Probe Metric are now in general availability. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall
Resource Health and Embedded Firewall Workbooks are now in public preview. Read More for the details.

GCP – Increase your availability and maximize your Bigtable spend with committed use discounts
Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service that offers high performance and high availability at any scale. It is a good choice for storing large amounts of data that need single-digit millisecond low-latency access, such as operational logs, customer data, and machine learning datasets for use cases like personalization, feature stores, and […]

GCP – Tips to enhance your prompt-engineering abilities
As AI-powered tools become increasingly prevalent, prompt engineering is becoming a skill that developers need to master. Large language models (LLMs) and other generative foundation models require contextual, specific, and tailored natural language instructions to generate the desired output. This means that developers need to write prompts that are clear, concise, and informative. In this […]

GCP – Announcing Direct VPC egress for Cloud Run: better performance and lower costs
We’re launching Direct VPC egress for Cloud Run in Preview today. This feature enables you to send traffic to a VPC network, without setting up a Serverless VPC Access connector. Direct VPC egress is easier to set up, is faster, can handle more traffic and has lower costs. This is a very exciting update to […]

GCP – How four companies are boosting Web3 innovation with Blockchain Node Engine
Blockchain technology is transforming how the world stores and moves information. Companies of all sizes are exploring its potential for enabling smart contract automation, building decentralized applications, driving open-source innovation, and more. But many also face a common hurdle: running and maintaining their own node, a prerequisite for many Web3 use cases. Deploying and managing […]
GCP – Instacart migrates to Memorystore and sees a 23 percent reduction in latency and costs
With millions of products available across the catalog and more than 1,200 retail banner partners who deliver from more than 100,000 stores across more than 14,000 cities in the U.S. and Canada, Instacart is one of the world’s largest grocery technology services, and its customers have come to love and rely on its convenience. In […]