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GCP – Game on and on and on: Google Cloud’s strategy for live service games
It’s undeniable: Live service games (“live games”) are the future of the games industry. In 2022, the top 10 most played games were all live, continuously delighting players with new content, features, and gameplay. Today, the live service model is prevalent across all console, PC and mobile platforms and genres. And with a projected 3.6 billion players […]

GCP – Driving Operational Insights with Healthcare Data Engine Accelerators
Healthcare leaders are increasingly challenged to drive operational improvements throughout their facilities, and inefficiencies can cost organizations both time and money and impact patient outcomes. Additionally, staffing shortages and employee burnout remain a major concern in healthcare. Addressing these challenges can help healthcare providers improve organizational operations, patient experiences and care. However, the information that […]

GCP – Accelerating the MongoDB-Google Cloud partnership to make data more open and transformative
MongoDB has partnered with Google Cloud since 2018 and is now available in 32 Google Cloud regions around the world, helping thousands of companies — such as Ulta, Keller Williams, Rent the Runway, and more — adopt cloud-native data strategies. Through our partnership, customers can build data-rich applications at scale by bringing MongoDB’s popular Atlas […]

GCP – Celebrating women driving impact at Google Cloud
From keeping the internet running to driving AI innovation to transforming our customers’ businesses, women deliver impact across Google Cloud. We work to continue to bring more women into leadership roles through supporting initiatives including: Career Development: We support women on the path to Director with a program called Polaris, a year-long career development program […]

GCP – Google Cloud and MongoDB expand partnership to support startups
Scale your Startups from ideation to growth with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud. By providing an integrated set of database and data services and a unified developer experience, MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud lets companies at all stages build applications that are highly available, performant at global scale, and compliant with the most demanding security […]

Azure – Generally available: App Insights Extension for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets
Application insights extension enables easy to use application monitoring for IIS-hosted .NET Framework and .NET Core applications running on Azure VMs and VM scale sets. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 I3 Bare Metal Instance is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) region
Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I3 bare metal instance is now also available in Middle East (Bahrain) region. Amazon EC2 I3 instances (i3.metal) provides your applications with direct access to the compute and memory resources of the underlying next generation AWS hardware and software infrastructure. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces new competition structure for the 2023 Season
Today, AWS launches the 2023 season of the award-winning AWS DeepRacer League – where developers of all skill levels advance their knowledge of machine learning (ML) and compete in the world’s first global autonomous racing league! Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Glue 4.0 now supports Streaming ETL
AWS Glue now supports Streaming ETL in version 4.0, a new version of AWS Glue that accelerates data integration workloads in AWS. AWS Glue 4.0 upgrades data integration engines, including an upgrade to Apache Spark 3.3.0 and to Python 3.10. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports enhanced color processing
AWS Elemental MediaConvert now has enhanced color processing features along with support for new color formats. As High Dynamic Range (HDR) content becomes more common, the ability to convert between Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) and HDR has also become important. While high-value content is commonly created using HDR color, most legacy, user-generated, and mass-produced content […]