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AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports video background blur
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web applications. Developers can now use video background blur to obfuscate their users’ surroundings, which can help increase visual privacy. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot Interruptions
Starting today, you can trigger the interruption of an Amazon EC2 Spot Instance using AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS). Spot Instances use spare EC2 Capacity that is available up to 90% discount compared to the On-Demand price. In exchange for the discount, Spot Instances can be interrupted by Amazon EC2 when Amazon EC2 needs the […]
GCP – Sayurbox reduces itinerary and job assignments from one day to less than ten minutes using Google Maps Platform
Today’s post comes from Rama Notowidigdo, Co-Founder at Sayurbox, an Indonesian food platform that brings same-day delivery of fresh, pesticide-free produce from traditional farmers straight to city doorsteps. The heart of Indonesia lies in its farming traditions, and we have an amazing heritage that’s reflected in the variety of crops we produce. Mangosteen, cassava, coconuts, […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Log Analytics in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East. Read More for the details.
GCP – ICYMI – Top AI Announcements and Sessions from Google Cloud Next ‘21
Google Cloud Next is our chance to share what we’ve been working on with customers, partners, and the AI/ML community, and, I am excited to say that we didn’t disappoint. At Next 2021, we continued to build successfully on our promise of making AI more accessible, more focused on business outcomes, and fast-tracking the time-to-value […]
GCP – Leveraging APIs to create value for telco ecosystems: STC’s digital transformation
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Haitham AlFaraj, Senior Vice President of Technology and Operations, Yazeed Alfaris, Vice President of Application, and Faisal Alhatlani, Applications Planning & Control GM from STC, which does business as “STC.” Since 1998, STC has been a telecommunications leader in Saudi Arabia and the surrounding region. Learn how STC uses […]
GCP – Tau T2D VMs now in Preview: Independent testing validates market-leading price-performance
In June, we announced a new virtual machine (VM) family, Tau VMs, that extends Compute Engine’s VM offerings with an option that delivers the best price-performance among leading clouds for scale-out workloads. The first member of the Tau VM family, T2D, is now available in Preview. This week, we are excited to share the results […]
GCP – Avoiding GCF anti-patterns part 1: How to write event-driven Cloud Functions properly by coding with idempotency in mind
Editor’s note: Over the next several weeks, you’ll see a series of blog posts focusing on best practices for writing Google Cloud Functions based on common questions or misconceptions as seen by the Support team. We refer to these as “anti-patterns” and offer you ways to avoid them. This article is the first post in […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security posture
AWS Security Hub now allows you to designate an aggregation Region and link some or all Regions to that aggregation Region. This gives you a centralized view of all your findings across all of your accounts and all of your linked Regions. After you link a Region to the aggregation Region, your findings are continuously synchronized […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of the AWS Panorama Appliance
Today, the AWS Panorama Appliance is generally available. The AWS Panorama Appliance is a new device that enables customers to improve their operations and reduce costs by using existing on-premises cameras and analyzing video streams locally with computer vision. Read More for the details.