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GCP – Closer to the action: Call of Duty League and Google Cloud deliver new feature for esports fans
Millions of people annually view esports, as top players and teams compete in thrilling, fast-paced tests of reflexes, strategy, and teamwork. Fans are a diverse group, sharing a passion for action. A new, revolutionary project we’re working on with Call of Duty League just made that action a lot better. ActivStat brings fans, players, and […]
GCP – Measuring Cloud Spanner performance for your workload
Database migration to a new database platform or technology can be daunting for various reasons. One of the common concerns is database performance. It is hard to evaluate database performance early in the evaluation cycle without performing actual data migration and application changes. This becomes even more important in the case of Cloud Spanner where […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 adds Resource Identifiers and Tags for VPC Security Group Rules
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports resource identifiers and tags for security group rules. You can now manage VPC security group rules using the assigned rule IDs and resource tags. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as an event source
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as an event source, allowing customers to quickly and easily build applications that are triggered from messages in their RabbitMQ queue. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Customers can […]
AWS – The Amazon Chime SDK adds media capture pipelines to enable capture of meeting video, audio, and content streams
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Starting today, developers can capture the contents of their Amazon Chime SDK meeting and save them to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket of their choice with media capture pipelines. This new […]
AWS – Announcing the General Availability of AWS Local Zones in Dallas and Philadelphia
Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Dallas and Philadelphia. Customers can now use these new AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or on-premises installations in Dallas and Philadelphia metro areas. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Updates to secrets configuration options in App Service and Azure Functions
App Service and Azure Functions have been updated to better support management of secrets as part of your secure application development process. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) version 13.5 for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13cR5
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) version 13.5 for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 13c Release 5. OEM 13c offers web-based tools to monitor and manage your Oracle databases. Amazon RDS for Oracle installs OMA, which then communicates with your Oracle Management Service (OMS) to provide monitoring information. Customers running […]
AWS – AWS AppConfig now enables customers to compare two application configuration versions
AWS customers can now compare any two application configuration versions side by side within AWS AppConfig, a feature of AWS Systems Manager. This new functionality highlights the differences between the changed configuration values in the two versions, and helps Developers and Devops professionals to understand how their configuration data has changed over time. This adds […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Web Crawler to enable web site search
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra web crawler to index and search webpages. Read More for the details.