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GCP – Ensuring fast, reliable deliveries for customers with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s article comes from Alex Papaspiridis, Head of Product and Agamemnon Papazoglou, Director of Strategy, Skroutz Last Mile. They share how Skroutz was able to automate its routing at scale and handle its deliveries in a more robust and agile manner, improving efficiencies and increasing delivery fulfillment rates with Google Maps Platform. Skroutz […]

GCP – Hear from One AI, a fast-growing seed-stage startup on what to consider when selecting a cloud provider
From the newsroom to the boardroom, everywhere we turn these days the topic of conversation is artificial intelligence (AI). From the smallest startups to the largest enterprises, every business is looking for ways to incorporate generative AI technology into their products or services. Generative AI is a new breed, able to not only discern patterns […]

GCP – Introducing new SQL functions to manipulate your JSON data in BigQuery
Enterprises are generating data at an exponential rate, spanning traditional structured transactional data, semi-structured like JSON and unstructured data like images and audio. Beyond the scale of the data, these divergent types present processing challenges for developers, at times requiring separate processing flows for each. With its initial release BigQuery’s support for semi-structured JSON eliminated […]

GCP – Improved cost visibility and 60 percent price drop for Managed Service for Prometheus
Prometheus is the de facto standard for Kubernetes application metrics, but running it yourself can strain engineering time and infrastructure resources, especially at production scale. Our Managed Service for Prometheus can help you offload that burden, freeing up your engineers to build your next big application rather than spending time building out metrics infrastructure. And […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Storage Mover support for SMB and Azure Files
Migrate your SMB shares to Azure file shares with Azure Storage Mover. Read More for the details.

GCP – Introducing H3 compute-optimized VMs for high performance computing (HPC)
High performance computing (HPC)helps power discovery and bring products to market fast, across a wide range of applications, including scientific computing, engineering simulation, climate modeling, financial risk analysis, drug discovery, and more. HPC users are increasingly adopting Google Cloud to access the computing resources they need, when they need them, to explore more scenarios and […]

AWS – AWS Service Catalog is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region
Starting today, customers can use AWS Service Catalog in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region to create, govern, and manage a catalog of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are approved for use on AWS. These IaC templates can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS […]

AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service announces Real-Time Streaming
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now has the capability to deliver live streams with latency that can be under 300 millisecond from host to viewer, to an audience of up to 10,000 viewers. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment
Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.