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Azure – Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series is now available in West Europe
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in East US, Canada Central, UK South, and West Europe. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing Pub/Sub as a new notification channel in Cloud Monitoring
Around the world, operations teams are working to automate their monitoring and alerting workflows, looking to reduce the time they spend on rote operational work (what we call “toil”), so they can spend more time on valuable work. For instance, Google’s Site Reliability Engineering organization aims to keep toil below 50% of an SRE’s time, […]
GCP – How maintenance windows affect your error budget — SRE tips
So, you’ve started down the site reliability engineering (SRE) path at your organization. You have set up your service. You have analyzed how your users interact with it, which helped you identify some key metrics that correlate with user happiness. You set your service-level objectives, which in turn gives you an error budget. Great work! […]
GCP – Open Match simplified matchmaking for developers is now 1.0
As interest in multiplayer games continues to grow, providing better and faster matches has been a key need for game developers. But matchmaking—the art of matching a set of players together to maximize their enjoyment of the game—is not easy. Each game is unique. That forces game developers to either create new matchmaking solutions from […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports higher-quality, natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices
Amazon Connect enables customers to use Amazon Polly’s Neural Text-to-Speech Voices within their contact-center. These new voices deliver groundbreaking improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach, making automated conversations sound more lifelike by improving the pitch, inflection, intonation, and tempo. The new neural voices are available in eight US English, three UK […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables
Amazon Redshift adds materialized view support for external tables. With this enhancement, you can create materialized views in Amazon Redshift that reference external data sources such as Amazon S3 via Spectrum, or data in Aurora or RDS PostgreSQL via federated queries. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive improves input switching for live channels
You can now use the AWS Elemental MediaLive schedule feature to prepare a MediaLive channel input prior to switching to it. In the context of live video streaming, this functionality is also known as an ‘input cue’. Preparation of an input in advance of a switch helps reduce the latency of the scheduled switch action. […]
AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now supports International Long Distance Operator (ILDO) routes to send SMS messages to India
Starting June 20, 2020, Amazon Pinpoint customers who send SMS with an alphanumeric sender ID to Indian recipients must register their use case. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India recently updated the regulations on commercial SMS sending. Senders who have a local presence in India are required to register their use cases through the Distributed […]
AWS – Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Read Replica
To provide enhanced performance and scalability, Amazon RDS on VMware adds support for read replicas for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. You can create read replicas of a source DB instance to serve high-volume application read traffic, thereby increasing aggregate read throughput. A read replica can also be promoted to become a standalone DB instance if […]
AWS – NexGuard forensic watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports forensic watermarking using NexGuard. This feature enables you to watermark content for both mezzanine and OTT streaming contexts in order to enable content leak forensic workflows. You have access to an added layer of security and traceability for valuable pre-release and early release content, and a simple way for watermarking […]