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AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 users can now save their user preferences between streaming sessions
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now enables end users to save their client preferences when streaming through a web browser or AppStream 2.0 client application for Windows. These preferences will be applied automatically when the user connects again using the same client, helping to provide consistent experience across sessions. Users can now customize and save AppStream 2.0 […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway now supports source-specific multicast
AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway now supports source-specific multicast (SSM). This new feature allows you to specify both a multicast group address and an optional source IP address when creating or updating MediaConnect Gateway bridge sources, offering greater flexibility, security, and efficiency in your workflows. SSM support enhances control by allowing you to pull content from […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 instances support bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBS
AWS announces the general availability of Instance Bandwidth Configurations (IBC) for 8th generation, Graviton based instances. With IBC, customers can adjust the VPC and EBS service bandwidth, by up to 25%, on their EC2 instances. When increasing the bandwidth for one of the service, say VPC, the available bandwidth for the other service, EBS, is […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer supports 59 new resource types
AWS Resource Explorer now supports 59 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Kendra, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, and Amazon SageMaker. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: access-analyzer:analyzer airflow:environment […]
AWS – AWS Cloud Map now supports Service Level Attributes
AWS Cloud Map now supports service-level attributes, enabling you to store and access information directly at the service level. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resources. […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB announces support for FIPS 140-3 interface VPC and Streams endpoints
Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-3 is a US and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. Today, we are announcing the general availability of FIPS 140-3 interface endpoint […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Osaka, Japan
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Telehouse OS2 data center in Osaka, Japan. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Osaka location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift supports auto and incremental refresh of Materialized Views for zero-ETL integrations
Today, Amazon Redshift announced the support for automatically and incrementally refreshable materialized views (MVs) on tables in a zero-ETL integration. This new feature eliminates the need for full refreshes, which previously required re-executing underlying select statements and rewriting all data in the MV. With this launch, you can leverage the power of zero-ETL integrations with […]
GCP – Tailor your search engine with AI-powered hybrid search in Spanner
Search is at the heart of how we interact with the digital ecosystem, from online shopping to finding critical information. Enter generative AI, and user expectations are higher than ever. For applications to meet diverse user needs, they need to deliver fast, accurate and contextually relevant results, regardless of how queries are framed. For example: […]
GCP – Orchestrating GPU-based distributed training workloads on AI Hypercomputer
When it comes to AI, large language models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML) are taking entire industries to the next level. But with larger models and datasets, developers need distributed environments that span multiple AI accelerators (e.g. GPUs and TPUs) across multiple compute hosts to train their models efficiently. This can lead to orchestration, resource […]