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Azure – Announcing Azure AI Content Safety
Azure AI Content Safety is a new Azure AI service that identifies harmful online content, categorizes it, and assigns severity scores, supporting human content moderator workloads. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally Available: Exactly Once Delivery to ADLS Gen2 Output
Azure Stream Analytics supports for end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MWAA is now SOC Compliant
You can now use Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) for use cases that are subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) requirements. MWAA is now SOC 1, 2 and 3 compliant, allowing you to get deep insight into the security processes and controls that protect customer data. AWS maintains SOC compliance through extensive third-party […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaPackage now supports Low-Latency HLS
Starting today you can package your media streams in Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS) format with AWS Elemental MediaPackage. LL-HLS functionality can be used with AWS Elemental MediaLive or AWS Elemental Live v2.25.0, in combination with SCTE-35 for ad insertion workflows, and with SPEKE v2 for multi-key digital rights management (DRM), including key rotation. Read […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Toronto
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix TR2 data center in Toronto, Canada. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for […]
GCP – How an open data cloud is enabling Airports of Thailand and EVme to reshape the future of travel
Aviation and accommodation play a big role in impacting the tourism economy, but analysis of recent data also highlights tourism’s impact on other sectors, from financial services to healthcare, to retail and transportation. With travel recovery in full swing post pandemic, Google search queries related to “travel insurance” and “medical tourism” in Thailand have increased […]
GCP – Introducing reCAPTCHA Enterprise Fraud Prevention
Today, we are putting the power of Google’s insights and intelligence in the hands of risk, fraud, and security teams everywhere. We are pleased to announce the general availability of reCAPTCHA Enterprise Fraud Prevention, a new product that uses Google’s own fraud models, machine learning, and intelligence from protecting more than 6 million websites to […]
GCP – What’s new in PostgreSQL 15
Cloud SQL is excited to announce support for PostgreSQL 15. PostgreSQL 15 has many new and valuable enhancements and we thought it would be great to deep dive into these for our users. One can broadly categorize the improvements into five areas: Security Developer experience Performance Tooling Observability Let’s deep dive. Security Schema `public` is […]
GCP – Four steps to managing your Cloud Logging costs on a budget
As part of our ongoing series on cost management for observability data in Google Cloud, we’re going to share four steps for getting the most out of your logs while on a budget. While we’ll focus on optimizing your costs within Google Cloud, we’ve found that this works with customers with infrastructure and logs on […]
GCP – Benchmarking for AlloyDB and how to do it
From time to time, I read and participate in conversations about performance tests comparing AlloyDB with different Postgres deployments on premises and in other cloud environments. In some cases, it sounds similar to the “Sensible Fiesta Test” by Jeremy Clarson in the 12th season of Top Gear. When asked the question “Can I afford it?” […]