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AWS – Amazon Braket now provides real-time visibility into quantum task and hybrid job queues
Amazon Braket, is a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to get started with quantum computing. Starting today, customers can have real-time visibility into device queue lengths and the individual queue positions for their Quantum Tasks and Hybrid Jobs, providing greater transparency into when their workloads will run. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK meetings API endpoints are now available in six new regions
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio and video to their web and mobile applications. Amazon Chime SDK meetings API endpoints used to create and manage meetings are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches contextual row subtotals for pivot tables
Amazon QuickSight introduces the ability to add contextual row subtotals in pivot tables for easier understanding and improved presentation. Authors can now customize subtotal labels by appending the group name, enabling clearer association and understanding. For instance, if the current group is “North America,” users can rename their subtotals as ‘North America Total,’ ‘Total for […]
AWS – AWS Batch DescribeJobDefinitions API now supports server-side filtering
AWS Batch DescribeJobDefinitions API now supports server-side filtering by job definition status. AWS Batch customers filtering job definitions by ACTIVE or INACTIVE status will now receive smaller DescribeJobDefinitions API response improving performance of the API and AWS Batch Management Console. Read More for the details.
AWS – QuickSight now supports tagging users for cost allocation
Amazon QuickSight and AWS Billing now support tagging users with the TagResource and RegisterUser APIs. With this launch, administrators can tag users and use AWS cost allocation tags to categorize and allocate user based costs by team, department or application. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports sending WebRTC audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
Amazon Chime SDK media pipelines now enable the sending of Amazon Chime SDK WebRTC audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. With the Amazon Chime SDK, developers can add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Sending WebRTC session audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams provides developers access to the audio […]
Azure – General availability: Gateway Load Balancer IPv6 Support
IPv6 support for Gateway Load Balancer is now generally available in all regions, enabling bump-in-the-wire network virtual appliance (NVA) insertion for your dual-stack architectures. Read More for the details.
GCP – A deeper look into retail use cases with Google Distributed Cloud Edge
Edge computing unlocks new opportunities for retailers to deliver better customer experiences while meeting cost and efficiency goals. For example, retailers can unlock use cases such as inventory detection, visual inspection, large scale data analysis among others. In this blog post, we will take a deeper look at some of the key retail use cases […]
GCP – Data on Kubernetes has crossed the chasm: the case for running stateful apps on GKE
Kubernetes is the de facto standard today for cloud-native development. For a long time, Kubernetes was mostly associated with stateless applications such as web and batch applications. However, like most things, Kubernetes is constantly evolving. These days, we are seeing an exponential increase in the number of stateful apps on Kubernetes. In fact, the number […]
GCP – So long data silos: Announcing BigQuery Omni cross-cloud joins
Organizations worldwide are dealing with growing volumes of data and distributed data lakes across different cloud platforms. We launched BigQuery Omni to help customers break down these data silos, with the help of several cross-cloud analytics capabilities including cross-cloud transfer and cross-cloud transform (create table as a select). Already, in the past six months, BigQuery […]