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AWS – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC SDK in C now supports client metrics
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams adds client metrics support to its WebRTC SDK in C. Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC enables developers to build web, mobile, and IoT devices application for real-time media and data streaming. Developers can use this capability to build applications for use cases such as home security and monitoring, camera-enabled doorbells, baby […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports Column Level Security, Column Descriptions, and a new Oracle Connector
Amazon QuickSight has added a powerful new data governance feature: Column Level Security (CLS). This feature compliments the existing Row Level Security (RLS) feature and, in combination, gives authors control over who can access what data within their visualizations. CLS enables dataset owners to apply restrictions on a per column basis. This ensures that users […]
AWS – Apply your business rules to Amazon Personalize recommendations on the fly
Amazon Personalize now allows you to apply business rules to your recommendations on the fly; without any extra cost. Dynamic filters save you time by removing the need to define all possible permutations of your business rules in advance and enable you to use your most recent information to filter recommendations. You control the recommendations […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Lightsail Containers, an easy way to run containerized applications on the cloud
Amazon Lightsail now provides you with the ability to run containerized workloads on the cloud with little-to-no prior cloud experience. With this native service, called Lightsail Containers, you can now deploy containerized applications to the cloud using the Docker images directly from your desktop or from the ones in public registries like DockerHub – with […]
GCP – It’s not DNS: Ensuring high availability in a hybrid cloud environment
Our customers have multi-faceted requirements around DNS forwarding, especially if they have multiple VPCs that connect to multiple on-prem locations. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, we recommend that customers utilize a hub-and-spoke model, which helps get around reverse routing challenges due to the usage of the Google DNS proxy range. But in […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune now supports custom endpoints to access your workload
You can now create custom endpoints for Amazon Neptune to access your workload. Custom endpoints allow you to distribute your workload across a designated set of instances within a Neptune cluster. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing the Anthos Developer Sandbox—free with a Google account
Your colleagues in IT operations talk about needing a platform that can run a wide variety of apps: new or existing, running on Linux or Windows, long-running or serverless, capable of rapidly scaling up and down according to demand. Anthos is Google Cloud’s answer to these requirements for hybrid and multi-cloud. With Anthos, you not […]
GCP – Devoted Health employees don’t miss a beat serving seniors from home with Chrome OS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by David Gallant, Head of Enterprise Support and Technology for Devoted Health, a Medicare Advantage health plan on a mission to improve healthcare for seniors. Devoted Health is using Chrome OS and Pixelbooks—in combination with workplace tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Talkdesk, and systems built internally—to help members navigate the […]
AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs for Snapshots now supports FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints in the US Commercial and Canada (Central) AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs now offer Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) compliant endpoints in the US Commercial and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. Read More for the details.
GCP – BigQuery Explained: Data Manipulation (DML)
In the previous posts of BigQuery Explained, we reviewed how to ingest data into BigQuery and query the datasets. In this blog post, we will show you how to run data manipulation statements in BigQuery to add, modify and delete data stored in BigQuery. Let’s get started! Data Manipulation in BigQuery BigQuery has supported Data […]