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Azure – Public preview: Application Insight in South India and West Central US
Application Insight is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health in the following list of regions South India West Central US. Read More for the details.
GCP – Go from Database to Dashboard with BigQuery and Looker
Creating an effective and scalable dashboard can be a time consuming process. But with Looker, analysts are no longer stuck re-writing tedious SQL queries. In our upcoming webinar, we’ll show you how to go from tables in BigQuery to a real-time, operational dashboard in Looker, in less than 30 minutes. Why use Looker + BigQuery? […]
AWS – Introducing AWS for Media and Entertainment
Media & entertainment customers face industry-wide transformation, with companies reinventing how they create content, optimize media supply chains, and compete for audience attention across streaming, broadcast, and direct-to-consumer platforms. Industry leaders such as Netflix, FORMULA 1, Discovery, and Disney use the AWS Cloud to pioneer new ways to entertain—launching new streaming services, expanding their content […]
AWS – AWS announces general availability of Amazon Nimble Studio
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Nimble Studio. Nimble Studio is a managed service that empowers creative studios to produce visual effects, animation, and interactive content entirely in the cloud, from storyboard sketch to final deliverable. With Nimble Studio, artists can accelerate digital content creation with virtual workstations, high-speed storage, […]
AWS – AWS Glue now supports client authentication for Apache Kafka streams
Streaming ETL jobs in AWS Glue now support SSL client certificate authentication with Apache Kafka stream producers. You can now provide a custom certificate while defining an AWS Glue connection to an Apache Kafka cluster, which AWS Glue will use when authenticating with it. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Audit Manager now offers a new standard framework for GxP EU Annex 11
AWS Audit Manager now offers a new prebuilt standard framework for GxP EU Annex 11. This framework adds to the existing prebuilt frameworks provided in Audit Manager. With this release, you can launch an assessment from this framework with just a few clicks. Audit Manager will map your AWS resources to the requirements in GxP […]
AWS – Database Activity Streams now available for Amazon Aurora in Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Database Activity Streams is now available for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Database Activity Streams for Amazon Aurora provides a near real-time stream of database activities in your relational database. When integrated with third party database activity monitoring tools, Database Activity Streams can monitor and audit database […]
AWS – AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region
The AWS Snowcone service is now available for order for customers in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. With this launch, Snowcone is now available for order in AWS Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions. AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS […]
AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.8.0
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.8.0 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 2.8.0 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Some of the key features include connection rate limiting to avoid problems with misconfigured clients (KIP-612) and topic identifiers which provides performance benefits […]
GCP – Google’s research & data insights solution makes next-generation research accessible
In order to be successful, research needs to be replicable, so scientists can build on past work and insights. However, an article in Nature warned that as much as 50% of published drug development research could not be reproduced in subsequent trials. As a result, promising drug candidates sometimes led to disappointment, as well as […]