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GCP – How to optimize your network for live video on Google Cloud
Like so many industries impacted by the global pandemic, the media and entertainment industry was forced to quickly create ad-hoc solutions to help broadcasters “keep the show on the air.” This caused seismic shifts in media production, distribution, and consumption, which accelerated trends like virtual work that were already underway and are now likely permanent. […]
GCP – Getting vaccines into local communities safely and effectively
Introducing: Google Cloud’s Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution With a number of COVID-19 vaccines approved, state and local governments are now focused on executing effective and equitable immunization programs. This promises to be the largest public health campaign of a generation, and Google is committed to helping our customers and communities rise to the challenge of […]
Azure – Azure Security Center—Public preview updates for January 2021
New preview enhancements and updates made to Azure Security Center in January 2021. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Security Center—general avialability updates for January 2021
New general availability enhancements and updates made to Azure Security Center in January 2021. Read More for the details.
GCP – Limiting public IPs on Google Cloud
You’ve heard this saying: Hope is not a strategy when it comes to security. You have to approach security from all angles, while minimizing the burden on dev and SecOps. But with an ever increasing number of endpoints, networks, and attack surfaces, setting automated and trickle down security policies across your cloud infrastructure can be […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now configures RHEL and SLES clustering for SAP application High Availability
AWS Launch Wizard now configures Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) clustering for High Availability (HA) at the SAP application layer. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Text Analytics’ Named Entity Recognition v3 now supports 10 languages with improved AI quality
With support for more entity categories and more languages, using Text Analytics NER enables organizations to extract higher quality insights from unstructured text. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe Medical now provides automatic Protected Health Information (PHI) identification
Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA-eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to healthcare and life science applications. As of today, we’re excited to launch support for the automatic identification of protected health information (PHI) in your medical transcriptions. With automatic PHI identification, customers can reduce […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty introduces machine learning domain reputation model to expand threat detection and improve accuracy
Amazon GuardDuty introduces a new machine learning domain reputation model that can categorize previously unseen domains as highly likely to be malicious or benign based on their behavioral characteristics. GuardDuty uses this new capability to alert customers when an EC2 instance in their AWS environment is communicating with a domain identified as malicious and to […]
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metrics
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now publishes metrics at 1-minute resolution to Amazon CloudWatch, providing granular monitoring for Amazon SNS standard and FIFO topics. Previously, Amazon SNS published metrics to Amazon CloudWatch in 5-minute resolution. Read More for the details.