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AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service announces Real-Time Streaming
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now has the capability to deliver live streams with latency that can be under 300 millisecond from host to viewer, to an audience of up to 10,000 viewers. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment
Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports excluding outbound calls in deciding agent routing order
Amazon Connect now provides you the ability to configure routing profiles to exclude all outbound call activity from setting the order in which inbound contacts are assigned to agents. Contact center managers can use this configuration to ensure that agents maintain their position in line to receive inbound calls and do not move to the […]

AWS – Amazon MSK Serverless expands availability to three additional AWS Regions
You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK Serverless in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Paris), and Europe (London) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 12 new security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 12 new security controls, increasing the overall number of controls Security Hub offers to 276. With these new controls, Security Hub now supports three additional AWS services: Amazon Athena, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), and Amazon Neptune. Security Hub has also added an additional control against Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon […]

GCP – How Asahi Group fostered a culture of innovation by building a data analysis platform
As an intermediate holding company, Asahi Group oversees operating companies in Japan including Asahi Breweries, Asahi Soft Drinks, and Asahi Group Foods. In 2015, we began the first phase of our IT infrastructure development. This was followed by two phases, with the goal of the second phase to include IT functions as part of the […]

GCP – How DeNA developed a live streaming app in just 2 months with Live Stream API
As a provider of several mobile portal and e-commerce platforms in Japan, DeNA Co., Ltd (DeNA) has continuously sought to expand its portfolio of services to create value for society and innovation in the entertainment business by leveraging internet and AI technologies. That is why it launched Play-by-Play LIVE, an application that allows professional or […]

GCP – Maximizing Reliability, Minimizing Costs: Right-Sizing Kubernetes Workloads
Do you know how much money you could save by adjusting workload requests to better represent their actual usage? If you’re not rightsizing your workloads, you might be overpaying for resources that your workloads aren’t even using or worse, putting your workloads at risk for reliability issues due to under provisioning. As we’ve previously discussed, […]
GCP – Making social robot conversations more natural with Speech-to-Text
MIXI, Inc. (MIXI) is a social networking organization that provides a diverse range of services for friends and family to enjoy together, such as the social-media platform mixi, a mobile game called Monster Strike, and a family photo and video sharing service known as FamilyAlbum. One of our current projects is Romi, a social robot […]