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AWS – Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers improved machine learning capabilities
Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers improved machine learning capabilities to continuously understand issues throughout a call and to deliver the right knowledge article to contact center agents. Wisdom analyzes contact center calls in real-time and proactively delivers agents the information they need to solve customer issues, improving agent productivity and caller satisfaction. Read More for […]

AWS – PostgreSQL 15 Release Candidate 2 is now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 15 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to test the release candidate of PostgreSQL 15 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 15 RC2 for development and testing in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment without the hassle of installing, provisioning, […]

Azure – Generally available: Auto Extension upgrade for Arc enabled Servers
Azure Arc can now provide high availability and automatic protection against zero-day or critical vulnerabilities in Azure extensions to your Arc enabled Servers Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Workstation on AWS
We are announcing the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Workstation for accelerated GPU instances on AWS Marketplace. RHEL Workstation is a cloud-based remote desktop solution that allows end users from anywhere in the world to access a workstation instance to do their work and collaborate with team members. RHEL Workstation is designed for […]

Azure – General availability: Azure savings plan for compute
Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Azure savings plan for compute. Read More for the details.

GCP – Unifying data and AI to bring unstructured data analytics to BigQuery
Over one third of organizations believe that data analytics and machine learning have the most potential to significantly alter the way they run business over the next 3 to 5 years. However, only 26% of organizations are data driven. One of the biggest reasons for this gap is that a major portion of the data […]

Azure – General availability: Zone-redundant storage support by Azure Backup
Azure Backup enables you to configure cost-efficient backups while meeting your data residency requirements. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing open innovations for a new era of systems design
We’re at a pivotal moment in systems design. Demand for computing is growing at insatiable rates. At the same time, the slowing of Moore’s law means that improvements to CPU performance, power consumption, memory and storage cost efficiencies have all plateaued. These headwinds are further exacerbated by new challenges in reliability, and security. At Google, […]

GCP – Introducing lock insights and transaction insights for Spanner: troubleshoot lock contentions with pre-built dashboards
As a developer, DevOps engineer or a database administrator, you have to typically deal with database lock issues. Often, rows locked by queries cause lags and can slow down applications resulting in poor user experience. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of lock insights and transaction insights for Cloud Spanner that provide a […]
GCP – Using Envoy to create cross-region replicas for Cloud Memorystore
In-memory databases are a critical component that deliver the lowest possible latency for your users who might be adding items to online shopping carts, getting personalized content recommendations, or checking their latest account balances. Memorystore makes it easy for developers building these types of applications on Google Cloud to leverage the speed and powerful capabilities […]