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AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports stereo audio
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Amazon Chime SDK meetings now support stereo audio, with 48kHz sampling and 128kbps encoding. These capabilities enable developers to capture live instruments or stereo microphone audio in their applications as well as sharing of pre-recorded music or other stereo […]
AWS – AWS Cost Management now supports hourly granularity in Savings Plans Utilization and Coverage reports
Starting today, customers can track Savings Plans Utilization and Coverage with hourly granularity in the AWS Cost Management Console. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that offers savings of up to 72% on your Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate type usage, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent […]
AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.6.3
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.6.3 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 2.6.3 includes security improvements and bug fixes. To learn more about these fixes you can review the Apache Kafka release notes for 2.6.3. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.7.2
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.7.2 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 2.7.2 includes security improvements and bug fixes. To learn more about these fixes you can review the Apache Kafka release notes for 2.7.2. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is now PCI compliant and in scope for SOC 1 and SOC 2
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is now Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) compliant and in scope for System Organization Controls (SOC 1 and SOC 2). Customer Profiles is designed to automatically bring together customer information from multiple applications and surfaces it to a contact agent at the moment they begin interacting with a customer. Read […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Connection Manager (CMAN)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports additional use cases for Oracle Connection Manager (CMAN). CMAN is a proxy server that forwards connection requests to database servers or other proxy servers. Read More for the details.
GCP – Wayfair teams up with Google Cloud for the inaugural Wayfair-Google Cloud Machine Learning Hackathon
On Dec 9th and 10th, Wayfair and Google Cloud came together for the inaugural Wayfair-Google Cloud Machine Learning Hackathon. Wayfair firmly believes that hackathons are a great way to fuel a culture of collaboration and experimentation. To fuel Wayfair’s incredible pace of innovation at scale, it’s team of more than 3,000 technologists is constantly experimenting […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder adds console support for custom image creation from on-premise images
Now customers can use EC2 Image Builder to build custom images from their on-premise images in a single console-based experience. This capability makes it easier for customers to incorporate on-premise images stored in S3 (in OVA, VHD, VHDX, VMDK and raw format) in EC2 Image Builder pipelines. Those customers can now leverage existing EC2 Image […]
AWS – NICE DCV releases web client SDK 1.0.4 with multiple connection support
NICE DCV web client software development kit (SDK) version 1.0.4 introduces support for multiple concurrent connections. Developers can now use the web client SDK to build applications with multiple side-by-side streaming views that show different DCV sessions in a single webpage. Read More for the details.
AWS – NICE DCV releases version 2021.3 with DCV Connection Gateway
NICE DCV version 2021.3 introduces multiple new features such as DCV Connection Gateway and a refreshed DCV Web Client user interface. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the details.