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Azure – General availability: Azure Media Services – HEVC encoding support in Standard Encoder
You can now use High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 in the Standard Encoder. This new feature is available for Content Aware encoding, Adaptive Bitrate encoding, and creating your own custom transforms. Using HEVC along with supported decoding devices will provide you with the ability to deliver streaming content at reduced bitrates while maintaining […]

AWS – AWS Wavelength is now ISO 9001, 27001, 27017 and 27018 compliant
ISO Eligible AWS Services deployed in AWS Wavelength are now in compliance with ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, and ISO/IEC 27018 standards. AWS maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed. Read More […]

GCP – Cloud Bigtable + Cloud Memorystore: faster together
TLDR: Improve your application’s performance by using Memcached for frequently queried data like this: Databases are designed for specific schemas, queries, and throughput, but if you have data that gets queried more frequently for a period of time, you may want to reduce the load on your database by introducing a cache layer. In this […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Conversational AI Platform
Conversational AI Platform is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Accenture, an AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. Conversational AI Platform helps organizations manage a conversational AI solution’s end-to-end lifecycle. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers discovery and planning, proof of value, a solution […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for local time zones for scheduled scaling
The scheduled scaling feature of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows you to set a schedule for your Auto Scaling group to scale in and scale out your EC2 capacity. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows you to set a local time zone for scheduled scaling actions via the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Design and Implementation for Druva Data Protection Solutions
Design and Implementation for Druva Data Protection Solutions is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Softcat, an AWS Storage Competency Partner. With the Design and Implementation for Druva Data Protection Solutions consulting offer, Softcat can design and deploy a fully executed backup solution for your organization. Customers that request this […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Virtual Desktop Accelerator
Virtual Desktop Accelerator is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from RedNight Consulting, an AWS Digital Workplace Competency Partner. Virtual Desktop Accelerator will accelerate your Amazon WorkSpaces deployment and empower you to manage and scale your virtual environment. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers […]

Azure – General availability: Application Insight in Australia Central 2
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in Australia Central 2 region for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Australia Central 2
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in Australia Central 2. Read More for the details.
GCP – Casa dos Ventos advances sustainability mission with SAP S/4HANA on Google Cloud
Over a 12-month period, Casa dos Ventos migrated 90% of its processing workloads and fully implemented SAP S/4HANA on Google Cloud. When the migration was complete, data-processing operations became more agile, allowing the company’s IT team to dramatically reduce the time they needed to process and analyze data as well as to respond to customers […]