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GCP – Vertex AI Vision: Easily build and deploy computer vision applications at scale
If organizations can easily analyze unstructured data streams, like live video and images, they can more effectively leverage information from the physical world to create intelligent business applications. Retailers can improve shelf management by instantly spotting what products are out of stock, manufacturers can reduce product defects by detecting production errors in real time, and […]

GCP – Improved text analytics in BigQuery: search features now GA
Google’s Data Cloud’s aim is to help customers close their data-to-value gap. BigQuery, Google Cloud Fully managed, serverless data platform lets customers combine all data — structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of search indexes and search functions in BigQuery. This combination enables you to efficiently perform rich […]

GCP – Introducing Assured Workloads in Canada and Australia, and new features for all
At Google Cloud, we continue to invest in our vision of invisible security where advanced capabilities are engineered into our platforms, operations are simplified, and stronger outcomes can be achieved. Assured Workloads is a Google Cloud service that helps customers create and maintain controlled environments that accelerate running more secure and compliant workloads, including enforcement […]

GCP – Accelerate your data to AI journey with new features in BigQuery ML
AI is at a tipping point. We are seeing the impact of AI across more and more industries and use cases. Organizations with varying levels of ML expertise are solving business-critical problems with AI — from creating compelling customer experiences, to optimizing operations, to automating routine tasks, these organizations learn to innovate faster and ultimately, […]

GCP – Introducing Blockchain Node Engine: fully managed node-hosting for Web3 development
Blockchain is changing the way the world stores and moves its information. Building on our commitment to help Web3 developers build and deploy new products on blockchain-based platforms, today we’re thrilled to announce Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine. Blockchains consist of transaction data that is permanently stored and encrypted, acting as decentralized databases of sorts. […]

AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports network connectivity disruption
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports network connectivity disruption as a new FIS action type. Using the new disrupt connectivity action in AWS FIS, you can inject a variety of connectivity issues as part of an AWS FIS experiment. Supported connectivity issues include disrupting all traffic, or, limiting the disruption to traffic to/from a specific […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune Serverless is now generally available
Amazon Neptune Serverless is a new deployment option that automatically scales capacity based on the needs of the application, making it easy and cost effective for developers to run graph databases without managing database capacity. Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service for building and running applications with highly connected datasets, […]

AWS – Amazon Connect adds real-time schedule adherence
Amazon Connect now includes the ability to view agent schedule adherence in real-time as part of the forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling capabilities (preview). Within the real-time metrics page, contact center supervisors can identify when agents deviate from their planned schedule, enabling supervisors to quickly take action to help improve agent productivity. For example, if […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10
This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Grid Search
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Grid Search to enable use cases that require reproducibility of hyperparameter tuning. Grid search will cover every combination of the specified hyperparameter values and yield reproducible tuning results. Read More for the details.