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AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports CMAF for dynamic ad transcoding
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports Common Media Application Format (CMAF) segments for personalized HLS streams and will automatically transcode ad creatives to match. Previously, if you wanted to serve CMAF ad segments, you had to create a custom transcode profile configuration. MediaTailor will now detect when the content source is CMAF or ISOBMFF in a […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports AWS PrivateLink, allowing you to access Pipes from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. With today’s launch, you can leverage EventBridge Pipes features from a private subnet without the need to deploy an internet gateway, configure firewall rules, or set up proxy servers. Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports cross-account machine learning (ML) model sharing
Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now integrates with AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), making it easier to securely share and discover machine learning (ML) models across your AWS accounts. Data scientists, ML engineers, and governance officers need access to ML models across different AWS accounts such as development, staging […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports SageMaker Studio Personalization
We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker now allows admins to personalize the SageMaker Studio experience for their end-users. Admins can choose to hide applications and ML Tools from SageMaker Studio based on the end user preferences. Starting today, admins can use the new personalization capability while setting up domains and user-profiles on SageMaker […]
AWS – Amazon Q in Connect now recommends step-by-step guides
Amazon Q in Connect, a generative-AI powered assistant for contact center agents, now recommends step-by-step guides in real-time, which agents use to quickly take action to resolve customers’ issues. Amazon Q in Connect uses the real-time conversation with a customer to detect the customer’s intent and provides a guided workflow that leads an agent through […]
AWS – AWS ParallelCluster 3.10 with support for Amazon Linux 2023 and Terraform
AWS ParallelCluster 3.10 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for Amazon Linux 2023 and Terraform. With Terrafrom support, customers can automate deployment and management of clusters similar to how they use Terraform to automate other parts of their AWS infrastructure. Other important features in this release include: Support for connecting […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google is helping to improve rural healthcare cybersecurity
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2024. In this update, Taylor Lehmann, director, Office of the CISO, shares remarks he made to the National Security Council this month on the steps Google is taking to help rural healthcare networks become more secure and resilient against cyberattacks. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, […]
GCP – Character.AI’s storybook ending with Memorystore for Redis Cluster
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and conversational applications, Character.AI stands out as a trailblazer of innovation. Founded in 2021 by former Google AI developers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, Character.AI has quickly become a leader in the personalized AI market. The company’s mission is to revolutionize the way we interact with […]
GCP – Create custom metrics for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and AlloyDB using Logs Explorer
Google Cloud has several options for running PostgreSQL-compatible workloads including Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, and Spanner. To make sure that your databases are running optimally in a production environment, you need to monitor different aspects of their performance, for example, locking conditions, the number of appearances of particular errors in the database […]
AWS – AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 in Canada West (Calgary) Region. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with […]