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GCP – A Cloud developer advocate’s top infrastructure sessions at Next OnAir
It’s week 3 of Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir, and this week is all about infrastructure and operations. This is an exciting space where we have both mature services and rapid improvements. We have a bunch of great talks this week and I hope you will enjoy them and learn a lot!After checking out the […]
GCP – In hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the network really matters
According to recent research1, among organizations adopting public cloud, a full 70% say that they will use a combination of public cloud and on-premises data centers. At the same time, 21% of business users reported that poor network connectivity negatively impacts web or cloud-based application performance2. How can you ensure that your hybrid or multi-cloud […]
Azure – Windows Virtual Desktop Azure portal and Microsoft Teams integrations are generally available
It’s now easier to deploy and manage Windows Virtual Desktop as well as provide seamless meeting and collaboration experiences through integration with Microsoft Teams. Read More for the details.
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.