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AWS – Announcing AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere for live video encoding on your own hardware
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere, which allows you to run live video transcoding on your on-premises hardware. MediaLive Anywhere brings the cloud control and pay-as-you-go pricing of AWS Elemental MediaLive to compute resources you manage. With MediaLive Anywhere, you can take advantage of MediaLive’s centralized configuration, control, and monitoring […]
AWS – AWS Elemental Media Services now support live AV1 encoding
The AV1 video codec is now supported in the AWS Elemental Media Services. You can use AV1 in AWS Elemental MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaTailor, and MediaConvert to produce both live and on-demand streams with ad insertion. This launch enables live streaming and packaging of AV1 encoded content, preparation of AV1 VOD assets and ads, and ad […]
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service supports Trend Micro post-launch action
Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) provides an action for installing the Trend Micro Vision One Server & Workload Protection Agent on your migrated instances. For each migrated server, you can choose to automatically install the agent to support your security needs. Application Migration Service minimizes time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating the […]
GCP – Brewing innovation: Google Cloud and Oracle powering AI-driven experiences
For coffee lovers, the pursuit of the perfect cup can feel like an endless quest. With a countless array of beans, roasts, and flavor profiles to choose from, finding the one can be overwhelming. But what if there was a way to simplify the search? Enter Coffee Nirvana, an AI-powered solution that harnesses the power […]
GCP – Safer by default: Automate access control with Sensitive Data Protection and conditional IAM
The first step towards protecting sensitive data begins with knowing where it exists. Continuous data monitoring can help you stay one step ahead of data security risks and set proper access controls to ensure data is used for the right reasons while minimizing unnecessary friction. Google Cloud’s Sensitive Data Protection can automatically discover sensitive data […]
GCP – Experimenting with BigQuery data compression
With the introduction of BigQuery’s physical storage billing model, BigQuery users now have more control over their storage costs, unlocking potential savings, especially for large deployments. But as we showed in a previous blog post, opting for this model can yield different size reductions for different data sets. You might be wondering why the range […]
GCP – Protecting Multi-Cloud Resources in the Era of Modern Cloud-Based Cyberattacks
Written by: Rupa Mukherjee, Jon Sabberton In the era of multi-cloud adoption, where organizations leverage diverse cloud platforms to optimize their operations, a new wave of security challenges have emerged. The expansion of attack surfaces beyond traditional on-premises environments, coupled with complex permission structures and the prevalence of overly permissive accounts, has created fertile ground […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports customer managed KMS keys
Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys, allowing you to encrypt Pipes filter patterns, enrichment parameters, and target parameters with your own keys instead of default AWS owned keys. Using keys that you create, own, and manage can satisfy your organization’s security and governance requirements. Amazon EventBridge lets you […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports altering sort keys on tables in zero-ETL integration
Amazon Redshift now lets you alter sort keys of tables replicated through zero-ETL integration. Sort keys play a crucial role in determining the physical sorting order of rows within a table, and optimizing them can significantly enhance query performance, especially for queries using range-bound filters on sort key columns. Amazon Redshift’s zero-ETL integration helps you […]
AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center now supports language and visual mode preferences in the AWS access portal
The AWS access portal provides AWS IAM Identity Center users with single sign-on access to all their assigned AWS applications and AWS accounts. Today, AWS IAM Identity Center added support for user preferences on language and visual mode in the AWS access portal. When customers need to access AWS applications and resources through the AWS […]