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GCP – Helping media companies create consumer streaming formats with Transcoder API
Media and entertainment companies across the world are in the midst of a transformational shift to direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming experiences. With audiences sheltering in place in 2020, this shift has been accelerated as audiences have adopted new streaming services more readily in 2020 than ever before. With more content being streamed in higher resolutions and […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront launches in Thailand
Amazon CloudFront announces its first two edge locations in Thailand. These new edge locations in Bangkok will provide viewers as much as a 30% reduction in p90 latency measures. These new edge locations are priced within CloudFront’s Asia Pacific geographic region. For more information about CloudFront’s global infrastructure, see Amazon CloudFront Infrastructure. Read More for […]
GCP – Google Cloud, Harvard Global Public Health release improved COVID-19 Public Forecasts, share lessons learned
Harvard Global Health Institute and Google Cloud have been working the past three months to improve the COVID-19 Public Forecasts, to give first responders and healthcare organizations the best possible information to prepare for what lies ahead. These forecasts use AI to provide a projection of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and other metrics for U.S. counties […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports Environment Variables
CloudWatch Synthetics now supports the use of environment variables with canaries. This allows you to save time by using a single canary script to create different canaries that have a similar task. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: VPN over ExpressRoute private peering
VPN over ExpressRoute allows customers to encrypt all traffic going over their ExpressRoute circuit. VPN over ExpressRoute, combined with site-to-site and point-to-site VPN provides end-to-end encryption between data centers, branch offices and remote users. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework v1.2
The AWS Solutions team recently updated Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework, a solution that provides secure factory equipment connectivity to the AWS Cloud. It features secure connectivity, fast and robust data ingestion and highly reliable and durable storage of factory equipment data. This solution is easy to deploy, can help reduce machine downtime and increase […]
AWS – AWS X-Ray now supports trace context propagation for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
AWS X-Ray now supports trace context propagation for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) enabling customers to view end-to-end requests when using Amazon S3. AWS X-Ray traces user requests as they travel through your entire application. It aggregates the data generated by the individual services like AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2 and the many resources that make […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management enhances Secure Tunneling with new multiplexing capability, supporting multiple connections to a single device over a secure tunnel
AWS IoT Device Management customers use Secure Tunneling to securely access and troubleshoot remote devices located behind a restricted firewall. Now, customers can make concurrent client connections to a single device over a secure tunnel using the new multiplexing capability. Multiplexing enables customers to perform more advanced device troubleshooting, such as modifying parameters via a […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports multi-GPU instances
Today we are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports multi-GPU instances of ml.g4dn.12xlarge, ml.p3.8xlarge, and ml.p3.16xlarge. Multi-GPU instances accelerate machine learning model training significantly, allowing users to train more advanced machine learning models that are too large to fit into a single GPU. They also provide the flexibility to process larger batches of data such as […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon EKS service integration
AWS Step Functions is now integrated with Amazon EKS, making it easier to build resilient applications that orchestrate jobs running on Kubernetes with AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS with minimal code. You can now build workflows including steps that launch tasks in Amazon EKS and wait for its completion […]