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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.
AWS – AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support request headers and composite keys
AWS WAF now supports additional request parameters for rate-based rules, including cookies and other HTTP headers. Additionally, you can now create composite keys based on up to 5 request parameters, providing more granular options for managing and securing web application traffic. With these capabilities, customers can better identify and block malicious traffic patterns while minimizing […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Gmail Connector to enable messaging search
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. AWS customers can now use the Amazon Kendra Gmail Connector to index and search messages from Gmail. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Adobe Experience Manager On-Premise Connector
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Adobe Experience Manager On-Premise Connector to index and search documents from Adobe Experience Manager. Read More for the details.