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AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor supports video bumpers before and after ad breaks
AWS Elemental MediaTailor customers can now configure a video bumper at the beginning and/or the end of an ad break. Bumpers are commonly used to indicate a change from regular programming or ad breaks to viewers. Bumpers can also be used to meet requirements such as station identification announcements or viewer age recommendations. Read More […]
AWS – Pausing entitlements now available in AWS Elemental MediaConnect
You can now pause the entitlement on an output of AWS Elemental MediaConnect when sharing live video between AWS accounts. This feature makes it easier to manage content sharing by allowing you to suspend and restart distribution of live video to your subscribers without having to delete and then reconfigure entitlement settings. To learn more […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server lowers the cost for High Availability DB Instances
We are happy to announce that we are lowering the price of Amazon RDS for SQL Server Enterprise Edition database instances in the Multi-AZ configuration, for both On-Demand and Reserved purchase types on the latest generation hardware. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS Purchase Order Management (Preview)
Starting today, customers can manage their AWS Purchase Orders (“POs”) within their AWS Billing Console, creating and defining invoices association rules, managing their PO status, and setting up PO balance notifications. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Customers can now pay for their AWS Marketplace, AWS Data Exchange, AWS IQ, and Reserved Instance Marketplace invoices in 14 currencies
AWS Marketplace, AWS Data Exchange, AWS IQ, and EC2 Reserved Instances Marketplace now support invoice payments in 13 additional currencies, in addition to our existing support for US Dollars (USD). This will help relieve your accounting department of the burden of paying and tracking conversion fees and other costs associated with the use of foreign […]
AWS – Detect fraud faster using machine learning with Amazon Fraud Detector – now generally available
Amazon Fraud Detector is now generally available to all AWS customers. Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud. Amazon Fraud Detector uses machine learning (ML) and 20 years of fraud detection expertise from […]
AWS – HTTP compression support now available in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports gzip compression for HTTP payloads. With HTTP compression, you can reduce the size of your documents by to up to 80%, lowering bandwidth utilization and latency, leading to improved transfer speeds. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Backup locally redundant storage (LRS) and geo-redundant storage (GRS) data stored meter ID changes
Effective September 1, 2020, the meter IDs of Azure Backup—LRS and GRS data stored will change in the ZA West and ZA North regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Migrate to the new version of the Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 APIs
Read about the process for migrating onto the new generally available API version for Time Series Insights Gen2. Read More for the details.
GCP – Helping teach a community cloud skills with Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification
“Unconventional” doesn’t begin to describe Joy Payton’s career path in technology. Before becoming the Data Education Supervisor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adjunct faculty member at Yeshiva University, Joy spent 10 years working as a full-time volunteer in prisons, schools, and homeless shelters across Spain, Bolivia, and El Salvador. While Joy was […]