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AWS – Configurable cipher suites now available for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
You can now configure your database connections on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition from an allowable list of ciphers. Configurable cipher suites provide you more security control over the connection encryption that your database server accepts. Read More for the details.
GCP – Event Monitoring with explanations on the Google Cloud
Use Cases We are describing a new production machine learning solution to monitor events in IT and industrial operations and explain their symptoms. This solution is used for a variety of industrial applications including proactively monitoring IT operations infrastructure, monitoring events in the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices, and predictive monitoring to any […]
GCP – Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API now supports custom voices
With the rise of digital assistants and conversational interfaces, people have grown accustomed to hearing and speaking to synthetic voices. But what do those voices sound like? Often, pretty repetitive. We’re all familiar with the Google Assistant voice, for example. That’s why we are excited to announce the general availability of Custom Voice in our […]
GCP – How sustainability will drive industry transformation
A century of increasing global industrialization created the woeful unintended consequence of crippling greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. Now we have far less time than that to address this crisis. We have to reduce emissions five times faster in this decade than we have been over the last. How do we speed up the action? […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra adds spell checker for queries
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, and helps organizations provide more relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra’s Spell Checker to suggest spell corrections for misspelled words in a query. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports auto termination of idle clusters in Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Africa (Cape Town), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions
Amazon EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR now supports auto termination of idle clusters in Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the October 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1. October 2021 Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 and 19c is already launched. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces now helps you automate resource management by using the AWS SDK
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)—a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service—now helps you automate resource management by using the AWS SDK. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Percept DK February (2202) software update
The Azure Percept February update includes fixes related to security. Read More for the details.
GCP – How Mux meets rising video demands by focusing on developers
As the variety of content creators, devices, and platforms has grown exponentially in recent years, video has become arguably the dominant online medium, accounting for a majority of today’s IP traffic. “Humans sleep first, work second, watch video third, and then everything else is like category four,” said Jon Dahl, co-founder and CEO of Mux, […]