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GCP – A (visual) space odyssey: How Theta Labs reached the outer limits of video streaming
Theta Labs, a leading decentralized video streaming platform, revolutionized the livestream experience with their peer-to-peer bandwidth sharing distributed ledger technology. And thanks to database and analytics solutions from Google Cloud, Theta Labs has scaled to stay ahead of its growing active user base on their blockchain platform. It was this ability to reach more remote […]
GCP – Multi-layer API security with Apigee and Google Cloud Armor
Information security has become headline news on a daily basis. You have probably heard of security risks ranging from malicious bots used in schemes both big and small, to all-out “software supply chain attacks” that involve large-name enterprises and their customers, and that ultimately affect numerous governments, organizations, and people. As businesses expand their digital […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Glacier announces a 40% price reduction for PUT and Lifecycle requests
Amazon S3 is reducing the cost to move data to Amazon S3 Glacier by lowering PUT and Lifecycle request charges by 40% for all AWS Regions. You can use the S3 PUT API to directly store compliance and backup data in S3 Glacier that does not require immediate access. You can also use S3 Lifecycle policies to […]
GCP – Serving up data from Cloud Storage
Prefer to listen rather than read? Check out this post on the podcast! When it comes to the cloud, there’s more than one way to serve a file. In this post, we’ll walk you through all the ways to serve data from Cloud Storage—so you can determine the best fit for your needs! You can […]
AWS – Achieve up to 35% better price/performance with Amazon Aurora using new Graviton2 instances
AWS Graviton2-based database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora MySQL Compatible Edition. Graviton2 instances provide up to 20% performance improvement and up to 35% price/performance improvement for Aurora depending on database size. You can also mix and match Graviton2 R6g and Intel R5 instances within the same […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Media Services – HEVC encoding support in Standard Encoder
You can now use High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 in the Standard Encoder. This new feature is available for Content Aware encoding, Adaptive Bitrate encoding, and creating your own custom transforms. Using HEVC along with supported decoding devices will provide you with the ability to deliver streaming content at reduced bitrates while maintaining […]
AWS – AWS Wavelength is now ISO 9001, 27001, 27017 and 27018 compliant
ISO Eligible AWS Services deployed in AWS Wavelength are now in compliance with ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, and ISO/IEC 27018 standards. AWS maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed. Read More […]
GCP – Cloud Bigtable + Cloud Memorystore: faster together
TLDR: Improve your application’s performance by using Memcached for frequently queried data like this: Databases are designed for specific schemas, queries, and throughput, but if you have data that gets queried more frequently for a period of time, you may want to reduce the load on your database by introducing a cache layer. In this […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Conversational AI Platform
Conversational AI Platform is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Accenture, an AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. Conversational AI Platform helps organizations manage a conversational AI solution’s end-to-end lifecycle. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers discovery and planning, proof of value, a solution […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for local time zones for scheduled scaling
The scheduled scaling feature of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows you to set a schedule for your Auto Scaling group to scale in and scale out your EC2 capacity. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows you to set a local time zone for scheduled scaling actions via the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS […]