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AWS – Database Activity Streams for Amazon Aurora is available in four additional regions
Amazon Aurora now supports Database Activity Streams in the South America (Sao Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan) regions. Database Activity Streams for Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility provides a near real-time stream of database activities in your relational database. When integrated with third party […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive Statmux adds MPEG2 support and other features
AWS Elemental MediaLive Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux) now supports MPEG-2 encoding. Broadcasters can now use the AWS cloud to perform MPEG-2 encoding to feed legacy devices with limited codec support, without needing to perform expensive upgrades of their customer’s or partner’s decoding devices. Now that MediaLive Statmux supports MPEG-2, and previously supported the AVC and HEVC […]
AWS – Announcing new digital curriculum: Moving to Managed Databases on AWS
This free new digital training curriculum contains modules that explain the benefits of and process for moving from self-managed databases to fully-managed database solutions in the cloud. The four-hour fundamental curriculum includes eight self-paced courses with video demonstrations and is designed for data platform engineers, database developers, and solutions architects. Read More for the details.
GCP – BigQuery explained: Blog series
BigQuery is positioned as a unique analytics data warehousing service with its serverless architecture that allows it to operate at scale and speed to provide incredibly fast SQL analytics over large datasets. We started a new blog series—BigQuery Explained—to uncover and explain BigQuery’s concepts, features and improvements. This blog post is the home page to […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition adds support for six new content moderation categories
Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based service that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Amazon Rekognition provides a detailed taxonomy of moderation categories such as ‘Explicit Nudity’, ‘Suggestive’, ‘Violence’, and ‘Visually Disturbing’. Starting today, customers can detect 6 new […]
AWS – CloudWatch Application Insights offers new, improved user interface
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights, working closely with customers, has introduced an enhanced user interface to make setting up and managing your enterprise application monitoring even more straight forward. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps enterprise customers easily setup application monitoring and enhanced observability for AWS resources. The user interface improvements streamline the steps […]
Azure – Row Level Security now generally available for Azure Data Explorer
Row Level Security simplifies the design and coding of security. It lets you apply restrictions on data row access in your application. Read More for the details.
GCP – And then there were two: Simplifying our product launch stages
A product’s launch stage signals important information to the user about its production-worthiness, supportability, polish, and price. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products have traditionally traveled through four launch stages—Early Access, Alpha, Beta and General Availability—and today, we are simplifying those down to just two: Preview and General Availability. Going forward, all new GCP products will […]
GCP – Helping media companies navigate the new streaming normal
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this feature originally appeared on Next TVand TV Technology. From the explosion of new programming to the launch of high-profile streaming services, 2020 was on track to be a transformational year in media and entertainment. But at the same time, the industry fully expected many of its foundational elements—windowing […]
GCP – Rapid cloud foundation buildout and workload deployment using Terraform
Last year, we released the Cloud Foundation Toolkit, open source templates that help you quickly build a strong cloud foundation according to best practices. These modules are available for both the Terraform infrastructure-as-code framework, as well as our own Cloud Deployment Manager. This blog post will detail building a secure cloud foundation using the Cloud […]