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AWS – Introducing workflow monitor for AWS Media Services
Today, AWS announces the release of workflow monitor for live video, a media-centric tool to simplify and elevate the monitoring of your video workloads. Accessible via the AWS Elemental MediaLive console and API, workflow monitor discovers and visualizes resources. It creates signal maps showing video across AWS Elemental MediaConnect, MediaLive, and MediaPackage along with Amazon […]
AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center now offers a streamlined AWS access portal and shortcut links
Users of AWS IAM Identity Center can now take advantage of a streamlined AWS access portal and time-saving shortcut links to navigate directly to destinations in the AWS Management Console in accordance with their permissions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda functions now scale up to 12X faster in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda functions can now scale up to 12x faster than before in response to unpredictable traffic in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this improvement each function can scale up to a rate of 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds, up to your account concurrency limit. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights announces observability for Windows containers on Amazon EKS
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now offers observability for Windows containers running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and helps customers collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from their Windows container infrastructure. With this support, customers can monitor utilization of resources such as CPU, memory, disk, and network, as well as get enhanced observability such […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Amazon EKS simplified access management controls
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS simplified the authentication and authorization user experience by integrating with Amazon EKS’s improved cluster access management controls. With this launch, Amazon EMR on EKS will use EKS access management controls to automatically obtain the necessary permissions to run Amazon EMR applications on the EKS cluster. Read […]
GCP – Introducing multimodal and structured data embedding support in BigQuery
Embeddings represent real-world objects, like entities, text, images, or videos as an array of numbers (a.k.a vectors) that machine learning models can easily process. Embeddings are the building blocks of many ML applications such as semantic search, recommendations, clustering, outlier detection, named entity extraction, and more. Last year, we introduced support for text embeddings in […]
AWS – AWS HealthImaging adds search parameters and extended search API responses
AWS HealthImaging has upgraded its search functionality so that customers can more easily find and access their medical imaging data in the cloud. These enhancements simplify finding any patient exam, for use as a clinical prior, to inform a clinical workflow, or for processing by medical imaging AI/ML models. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-April 2024
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-April 2024. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing Delta Lake support for BigQuery
Delta Lake is an open-source optimized storage layer that provides a foundation for tables in lake houses and brings reliability and performance improvements to existing data lakes. It sits on top of your data lake storage (like cloud object stores) and provides a performant and scalable metadata layer on top of data stored in the […]
GCP – Build powerful gen AI applications with Firestore vector similarity search
Creating innovative AI-powered solutions for use cases such as product recommendations and chatbots often requires vector similarity search, or vector search for short. At Google Cloud Next ‘24, we announced the Firestore vector search in preview, using exact K-nearest neighbor (KNN) search. Developers can now perform vector search on transactional Firestore data without the hassle […]