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AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service launches edge locations in Argentina and Chile
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) announces its first points of presence (PoPs) in Argentina and Chile located in Buenos Aires and Santiago. The new edge locations will enable streamers and viewers based in Argentina and Chile to enjoy lower latency, better video quality, and increased capacity. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus
To enforce stricter security measures, you can now configure your Service Bus namespace to require that clients send and receive data with a minimum version of TLS. Read More for the details.
AWS – The Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device, powered by AWS Panorama, is now available for sale
The Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device, powered by AWS Panorama, is now available for sale. Joining the existing AWS Panorama Appliance, the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device provides customers with another choice in price and performance for computer vision use cases using AWS Panorama. Customers can work with AWS Panorama Partners to build a wide variety of […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas adds new data preparation capabilities and usability updates
Amazon SageMaker Canvas visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. SageMaker Canvas makes it easy to access and combine data from a variety of sources, automatically clean data and apply a […]
AWS – The New Amazon ElastiCache console is now available
The new Amazon ElastiCache console provides you with an intuitive way to manage ElastiCache resources with simpler navigation and richer contextual information. The new console provides a more consistent look and feel with other AWS service consoles. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Virtual Network NAT health checks available via Resource Health
With Azure Resource Health, diagnose and get support for service problems that affect Virtual Network NAT (NAT gateway). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server 2016 SP3, 2017 CU27, and 2019 CU15
New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2017, and 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Service Catalog Provisioning constructs for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) are now available
AWS Service Catalog Provisioning constructs for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) are now available for builders to create application infrastructure in code that provisions cloud resources from their approved Service Catalog products. Service Catalog builders can now create their AWS CDK applications with approved constructs in familiar programming languages like Typescript and Python […]
AWS – Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs now supports embedded circuit simulations, improving the performance of certain hybrid quantum-classical algorithms by over 10X
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, is designed to make it easy for customers to conduct scientific research and software development with quantum computers. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs, the capability to combine quantum and classical compute to explore hybrid algorithms, now supports embedded circuit simulators, improving […]
GCP – Advancing systems research with open-source Google workload traces
With rapid expansion of internet and cloud computing, warehouse-scale computing (WSC) workloads (search, email, video sharing, online maps, online shopping, etc.) have reached planetary scale and are driving the lion’s share of growth in computing demand. WSC workloads also differ from others in their requirements for on-demand scalability, elasticity and availability. Many studies (e.g., Profiling […]