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GCP – Access to Looker data models from Power BI now generally available
Data is critical to the decision-making process across most types of organizations, but connecting people to the data they need in their workflow can be a challenge. Our vision — to enable users to access and leverage trusted metrics based on accurate, up-to-date, data through the tools they already use — becomes even more real […]

Azure – General availability: Partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK
Modify just the required fields without having to replace the whole document with partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK. Read More for the details.

Azure – Hotpatch is now generally available on Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode
Hotpatch is now available for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs using the newly released images. Hotpatch is a feature that allows you to patch and install OS security updates to Windows Server Azure Edition VMs on Azure without requiring a reboot! Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Cloud expands availability of enterprise-ready generative AI
Generative AI continues to develop at a blistering pace, making it more important than ever that organizations have access to enterprise-ready capabilities to help them leverage this disruptive technology. Harnessing the power of decades of Google’s research, innovation, and investment in AI, Google Cloud continues to make generative AI available with baked-in security, data governance, […]

GCP – Conversational AI on Gen App Builder unlocks generative AI-powered chatbots and virtual agents
Enterprise search apps and conversational chatbots are among the most widely-applicable generative AI use cases. With Generative AI App Builder (Gen App Builder), our goal has been to combine these capabilities into a single developer-friendly product that provides access to sophisticated foundation models, removes the complexity of grounding them in proprietary data, streamlines their implementation […]

GCP – Document AI introduces powerful new Custom Document Splitter to automate document processing
Businesses rely on processing an inflow of documents to drive processes and make decisions. Many such documents are combined into a single file. For example, a loan application may have a driver’s license, paystub, W2, bank statement, and other document types within a single file. The complexity of handling many document types within a single […]

AWS – AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge Pipes now support enhanced filtering
AWS Lambda event source mappings and Amazon EventBridge Pipes sources now support additional filtering capabilities including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix filtering), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case), and to have a single rule match if any conditions across multiple separate fields are true (OR matching). We’re also […]

AWS – AWS simplifies writing .NET 6 Lambda functions
We are happy to announce the general availability of the Lambda Annotations Framework for .NET. This new programming model makes the experience of writing Lambda functions in C# feel more natural for .NET developers by using C# source generator technology. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect Wisdom is now available for chat agents
Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers ML-powered, real-time recommended information to help chat agents quickly solve customer needs. Previously only available for agents responding to calls, Wisdom’s machine learning models help detect customer issues and recommend knowledge articles to agents during chat sessions. By proactively delivering agents the information they need, Wisdom helps improve agent productivity […]
Azure – Public Preview: Customer Managed Failover for ADLS Gen 2
Customer-managed failover now supports ADLS Gen 2 Read More for the details.