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GCP – Transform your legacy apps with a ‘lean modernization’ approach
As companies are increasingly reliant on digital services to interact with their customers, business partners and employees, application modernization projects are getting higher priority due to the inability of older applications to meet the current demands of the business. In a recent ESG survey1 86% of organizations stated that they run production workloads on public […]

GCP – Deploying your Generative AI model in only four steps with Vertex AI and PyTorch
Foundational models are trained on extensive unlabeled data and used for downstream generative AI tasks, such as text, images, and music generation. They are increasingly popular as businesses explore their potential to create new products and services. You can use foundational models for use cases like image generation. Diffusion models are generative models that have […]

GCP – Google Cloud and SAP: Faster outcomes, more value from data
Last week, we announced an extensive expansion of our partnership with SAP, jointly offering customers an open data solution that puts data and analytics at the heart of business transformation based on SAP Datasphere and Google Cloud Cortex Framework on BigQuery. Co-engineering this groundbreaking solution has strengthened our partnership, and it will help our customers […]

GCP – Game-changing IT security with Unity, Orca Security, and Google Cloud
Every month, more than 1 million creators worldwide use Unity’s expansive platform to develop games, create beautiful visual effects, and design everything from electric cars to skyscrapers. The company’s comprehensive suite of solutions makes it easier to create, run, and monetize 2D and 3D content. Unity has long recognized the importance of security not just […]

Azure – General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions
Azure Center for SAP solutions brings together an integrated set of capabilities for deploying and managing SAP landscapes by making Azure SAP aware. You can take advantage of the management capabilities for both new and your existing Azure-based SAP systems. Read More for the details.

Azure – We’re retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023
We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we’ll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT Core registry adds additional AWS CloudFormation resource types
AWS CloudFormation now supports AWS IoT Core thing group, thing type and billing group resources. AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to easily model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources. You can now use an AWS CloudFormation template to pre-configure and deploy AWS IoT Core registry resources for your […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace introduces new self-service listing feature for single AMI products
AWS Marketplace now features a new self-service listing experience in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal for single AMI products. The new feature enables AWS Marketplace sellers to publish and update AMI listings more quickly and easily. This feature enables you to directly interact with AWS Marketplace catalog to create, preview, test, and update your product listing […]

AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M6g and R6g database instances in four additional AWS regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports AWS Graviton2-based M6g and R6g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta), Europe (Spain), and the Middle East (UAE). Depending on the database engine, version, and workload, Graviton2-based instances provide up to 19% better price/performance than comparable M4 and R4 instances. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides supervisor alerts on agent performance
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides supervisor alerts on agent performance, enabling businesses to identify contacts (e.g., evaluation score < 50%) that require supervisors follow-up with agents on their team. Supervisors can now do proactive follow-ups with specific agents on their team that require more immediate support instead of waiting for periodic follow-ups with every […]