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AWS – AWS Elemental Link UHD simplifies live video contribution with MediaConnect
You can now use AWS Elemental Link UHD to directly contribute live video to AWS Elemental MediaConnect, a reliable, secure, and flexible transport service for live video. With MediaConnect, you can build live video workflows and securely share high-value live content globally with your partners and customers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M6id and R6id database instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports M6id and R6id database (DB) instances for RDS for PostgresSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Amazon RDS M6id and R6id DB instances provide up to a 24% performance improvement and up to a 13% price/performance improvement (based on on-demand pricing) over Amazon RDS M5d and R5d DB instances for open-source […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches Contact Data Updated event
Amazon Connect now allows you to subscribe to the Contact Data Updated event via Contact Event Stream (CES). Business currently subscribes to Contact Event Stream for a near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (for example, call is queued) in their Amazon Connect contact center. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ Deployment with two readable standbys now supports major version upgrades
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) PostgreSQL Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys now supports major version upgrades. Starting today, you can upgrade your RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys from major version 13.4 and above and 14.5 and above to 15.3 with just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console. […]
GCP – Helping you deliver high-performance, cost-efficient AI inference at scale with GPUs and TPUs
The pace of progress with AI model architectures is staggering, driven by breakthrough inventions such as Transformer, and by rapid growth in high-quality training data. In generative AI, for instance, large language models (LLMs) have been growing in size by as much as 10x per year. Organizations are deploying these AI models in their products […]
Azure – Azure Front Door Standard and Premium support bring your own certificated based domain validation
Azure Front Door Standard and Premium support bring your own certificated based domain validation, streamlining the steps and efforts required to validate domain ownership. Read More for the details.
GCP – Built with Google Cloud: Google and Acalvio partner to deliver Active Defense to protect customers from advanced threats
Security is a top priority for all customers on Google Cloud, whether beginner, intermediate, or advanced users. Through our partnership with Acalvio, we are able to offer Active Defense to Google Cloud customers, providing automated deception management and deployment capabilities, with a simple onboarding experience. Architecture overview Acalvio’s patented Active Defense platform, built on award-winning […]
GCP – Improving launch time of Stable Diffusion on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) by 4X
Background With the increasing popularity of AI-generated content (AIGC), open-source projects based on text-to-image AI models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion have emerged. Stable Diffusion is a diffusion model that generates realistic images based on given text inputs. In this GitHub repository, we provide three different solutions for deploying Stable Diffusion quickly on Google […]
GCP – Light the way ahead: Platform Engineering, Golden Paths, and the power of self-service
Imagine that you’re a Java developer who has just joined a new company, and you’re tasked with creating a small Java service. In a DevOps model, the shared responsibility between Development and Operations teams might mean that you’ll not only be expected to write Java code, but also operations code like build pipelines and monitoring […]