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AWS – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams updates media playback API service quotas to enable up to 10x more simultaneous consumers
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (KVS) updates the service quota model for its media playback APIs to throttle based on the number of fragments requested rather than the number of playback sessions. This gives developers the flexibility to enable up to 10x more simultaneous playback sessions for applications that use Kinesis Video Streams for live or […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries
Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries provide ability to query across databases in a Redshift cluster. This feature is now generally available in all regions where Amazon Redshift RA3 node types are available. With Cross-database queries, you can seamlessly query data from any database in the cluster, regardless of which database you are connected to. Cross-database queries […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Data Sharing
Amazon Redshift Data Sharing, a secure and easy way to share live data across Redshift clusters, is now generally available. Data Sharing enables instant, granular, and high-performance data access across Amazon Redshift clusters within an AWS account, without the need to copy or move data. Data Sharing provides live access to the data so that […]
Azure – Node.js 14 in Azure Functions is now generally available
Azure Functions support for the Node.js 14 runtime is now in general availability. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Functions supports .NET 5 in production
Azure Functions now supports running production applications in .NET 5, the latest version of .NET. Read More for the details.
GCP – Scaling workloads across multiple dimensions in GKE
In Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), application owners can define multiple autoscaling behaviors for a workload using a single Kubernetes resource: Multidimensional Pod Autoscaler (MPA). The challenges of scaling Pods horizontally and vertically The success of Kubernetes as a widely adopted platform is grounded in its support for a variety of workloads and their many requirements. […]
GCP – Songkick harmonized their infrastructure with Memorystore
Songkick is a U.K.-based concert discovery service and live music platform owned by Warner Music Group connecting music fans to live events. Annually, we help over 175 million music fans around the world track their favorite artists, discover concerts and live streams, and buy tickets with confidence online and via their mobile apps and website. […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Global Database Expands Availability to São Paulo and Stockholm
An Amazon Aurora Global Database is a single database that spans multiple AWS Regions, enabling disaster recovery from region-wide outages and low latency global reads. With today’s launch, the feature is available in the AWS Americas (São Paulo) and AWS Europe (Stockholm) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible edition supports simultaneous authentication with both Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Customers can now enable multiple authentications protocols at the same time for an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition cluster. Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports both Kerberos authentication with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and IAM database authentication, but in the past you could choose only one for a given cluster. Now, Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility […]
Azure – HDInsight Apache Kafka REST Proxy is now generally available
Azure HDInsight Kafka REST proxy greatly simplifies messaging architecture patterns by allowing Kafka producers and consumers to be located outside the virtual network and enables working with unsupported languages. Read More for the details.