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GCP – Google Cloud partners fuel media and entertainment boom: Viewers reap the rewards
It’s clear that for the past decade, the media and entertainment industry has been undergoing a significant transformation. Still, consumers continue to demand more personalized and diverse entertainment offerings. To keep pace, media and entertainment companies need powerful and flexible tools that accelerate time-to-market for these new offerings, while also optimizing costs. This is where […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Read More for the details.
GCP – Day 1 at Next ’24 recap: AI agents for everyone
Hello from sunny Las Vegas, where we kicked off Google Cloud Next ’24 today! What happened in Vegas on the first day of Next? In a word, AI. Read on for highlights of the day. We started things off with a reminder of how companies are using AI — not as a future thing, but […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports Common Media Client Data (CMCD) fields in real-time logs
Starting today, you can enable Common Media Client Data (CMCD) fields in your CloudFront real-time logs. You can select key client-side performance parameters and CloudFront delivery performance parameters in the same log record. This can help you correlate variations in Quality of Experience (QoE) for your viewers to CloudFront performance at the granularity of single […]
AWS – AWS AppSync forwards application request headers to AWS Lambda custom authorizer functions
AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to build digital experiences based on multiple data sources. With AppSync, you create GraphQL APIs that your applications interact with over the internet (public APIs) or inside your VPC (private APIs). A method of authorization is always required to access your AppSync API. Developers can […]
Azure – Run Azure Load Testing on Azure App Service web apps
Load test your web apps directly from Azure App Service in Azure portal. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Location Service releases Tracking SDK for iOS and Android
Amazon Location Service has released the Tracking SDK for iOS and Android platforms. Developers can now easily add location tracking capabilities into their mobile applications to support customer engagement, geo-targeting, and delivery use cases. Read More for the details.
AWS – Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports Claude 3 Haiku
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock securely connects foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver more relevant and accurate responses. Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku foundation model is now generally available on Knowledge Bases. We recently also announced support for Claude 3 Sonnet. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports rds_superuser_role for easier implementation of role based privileges
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports rds_superuser_role to simplify implementation of role-based privileges on MySQL 8.0. The rds_superuser_role is granted by default to the primary administrative user, and has privileges including, CREATE ROLE, CREATE USER, and DROP ROLE, for all database objects. For a complete list of rds_superuser_role privileges, refer to […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now available in the Hyderabad and UAE regions
You can now configure and operate AWS Elemental MediaTailor through the AWS Management Console or API endpoints in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Middle East (UAE) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.