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Azure – General availability: Media Services adds new “StandBy” mode for Live Events to speed up start times from warm state
Media Services Live Events now support a lower-cost "StandBy" mode to allow you to pre-allocate live streaming at a lower cost. You can now use the new standby mode to transition quickly to a "Running" state faster than starting from cold creation and reduces your operational costs. Read More for the details.
AWS – IAM Access Analyzer now supports over 100 policy checks with actionable recommendations to help you author secure and functional policies
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer makes it easier to implement least privilege permissions by analyzing resource policies to provide provable security and help you identify unintended public or cross-account access. A recent update allows you to validate public and cross-account access before deploying permissions changes. Now, we are extending policy validation in […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise Monitor adds support for accessing Monitor portals using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles
AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale to help you make better, data-driven decisions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing new Amazon EC2 X2gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
Starting today, the next generation of memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2gd instances are available. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. They deliver up to 55% better price performance compared to current generation x86-based X1 instances and provide high memory per vCPU at the […]
AWS – Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 16
Amazon Corretto 16 is now generally available. This version supports the latest Java feature release JDK 16 and is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can download Corretto 16 from our GitHub Releases. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Batch now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and the Asia-Pacific (Osaka) Regions
Today, AWS Batch is available in the Africa (Cape Town) and the Asia-Pacific (Osaka) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Copilot launches v1.4 with support for ECS exec and more
Today, AWS Copilot launched version 1.4 which now provides more operational capabilities for applications hosted on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). This allows you to directly access a container to troubleshoot and run commands with ECS exec. AWS Copilot also added the ability to deploy applications from a Bitbucket repository and attach Amazon Elastic […]
AWS – Announcing support for multiple containers on Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints, leading to cost savings of up to 80%
Amazon SageMaker now supports deploying multiple containers on real-time endpoints for low latency inferences and invoking them independently for each request. This new capability enables you to run up to five different machine learning (ML) models and frameworks on a single endpoint and save up to 80% in costs. This option is ideal when you […]
AWS – Announcing new operations plan AWS Managed Services Accelerate
Accelerate is a new operations plan from AWS Managed Services (AMS) that offers operations support for customers with existing workloads, with new planned workloads, or migrating to AWS. AMS Accelerate provides operational services such as monitoring, incident management, security, patch, and backup to help you with day-to-day operations management so that your teams can focus […]
GCP – The bots are here: Use RPA and AI to automate digital tasks
The bots are coming! But don’t worry, they’re here for the boring stuff. Robotic Process Automation, or RPA to you acronym lovers, is all about AI-powered digital critters that take over repetitive and manual tasks, like receiving an invoice, extracting the data, and then entering that data into a bookkeeping system. RPA has been popular […]