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AWS – Amazon Chime SDK meetings live transcription now supports content identification and custom language models
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. With live transcriptions, developers can include subtitles in meetings and create transcripts using Amazon Transcribe or Amazon Transcribe Medical. Using the service-side integration between Amazon Chime SDK and your Amazon Transcribe account, application builders can now help identify […]
Azure – General availability of custom OpenID providers in App Service and Azure Functions
Support for authenticating clients of App Service and Azure Functions using OpenID Connect is now generally available. Read More for the details.
AWS – New Multi-AZ deployment option for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and for MySQL; increased read capacity, lower and more consistent write transaction latency, and shorter failover time (Preview)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL and for PostgreSQL now supports a new Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database instances. This deployment option optimizes write transactions and is ideal when your workloads require additional read capacity, lower write transaction latency, more resilience from network jitter (which impacts the […]
AWS – Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer end-to-end IPv6 support
Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers now support end-to-end connectivity with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Clients can now connect to application and network load balancers and access backend applications over IPv6. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ECS announces a new integration with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now enables customers to quickly get started to monitor and debug their applications with traces and custom metrics using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). This feature allows Amazon ECS customers to use the console to enable metrics and traces collection, and then export to Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for Redis 6.2
Amazon ElastiCache for supports Redis 6.2. ElastiCache for Redis 6.2 includes performance improvements for TLS-enabled clusters using x86 node types with 8 vCPUs or more or Graviton2 node types with 4 vCPUs or more. These enhancements are designed to improve throughput and reduce client connection establishment time by offloading encryption to other CPUs. With Amazon […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors, is now generally available. AWS Graviton2 processors are custom built by Amazon Web Services using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and Graviton2-powered Fargate delivers up to 40% improved price/performance at 20% lower cost over comparable Intel x86-based Fargate for a variety of workloads […]
Azure – Azure Scheduler will be retired on 31 January 2022
Transition to Azure Log Apps before 31 January 2022. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for streaming transcriptions
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce automatic language identification for streaming transcriptions. Until now, you were required to manually identify the dominant language in order to use Transcribe streaming APIs. You can now simply […]
AWS – Announcing data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
You can now use data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis as a lower cost way to scale your clusters to up to hundreds of terabytes of capacity. Data tiering provides a new price-performance option for Redis workloads by utilizing lower-cost solid state drives (SSDs) in each cluster node in addition to storing data in […]
