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AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports 4K frame sizes and 10-bit color in the AV1 output format
AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports creation of the AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) format in 4K frame sizes and with 10-bit color depth. These enhancements expand the AV1 encoding capabilities of AWS Elemental MediaConvert to enable creation of High Dynamic Range (HDR) 4K content for display on modern, color rich 4K playback devices. With AV1, you can […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds additional Geospatial query capabilities
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for $mergeObjects and $reduce
Amazon DocumentDB is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Backup releases new updates for hybrid backups
The new enhancements released for the security of hybrid backups enable you to integrate with MUA, protect against accidental deletion and avoid data loss in soft delete state. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions 13.5, 12.9, 11.14, 10.19, and 9.6.24; Amazon RDS on Outposts supports new PostgreSQL minor versions 13.5 and 12.9
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have added support in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL minor versions 13.5, 12.9, 11.14, 10.19, and 9.6.24. We have also added support in Amazon RDS on Outposts for PostgreSQL minor versions 13.5 and 12.9. This release closes security vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL and […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Site Recovery support for ZRS Managed Disks
With ASR, you can protect your VMs that uses ZRS managed disks by replicating them to a secondary region of your choice. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Kibana dashboards and visualizations on top of Azure Data Explorer
Elasticsearch and Kibana users can now easily migrate to Azure Data Explorer (ADX) while keeping Kibana as their visualization tool, alongside the other Azure Data Explorer experiences.A new version… Read More for the details.
GCP – Retailers unwrap a successful 2021 holiday season with Google’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday program
Over the last five years, the November-December holiday shopping season has accounted for an average of 19 percent of annual retail sales, driven in large part by the surge in shopping over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. In 2021, nearly 180 million Americans shopped between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday, generating online sales of $8.9B […]
GCP – GCP Controls to leverage for Data Pipeline in Regulated Industries
Many companies, both in Digital Native and traditional regulated industries, such as Finance, Healthcare and Telecom, use their data and cloud technologies to solve complex problems, enable rapid ML experimentation, and bring new products to market. However, before using Cloud for data workloads, many in regulated industries weigh risk vs reward. The risks are mainly […]
GCP – Explaining machine learning models to business users using BigQueryML and Looker
Organizations increasingly turn to AI to transform work processes, but this rapid adoption of models has amplified the need for explainable AI. Explaining AI helps us understand how and why models make predictions. For example, a financial institution might wish to use an AI model to automatically flag credit card transactions for fraudulent activity. While […]