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GCP – How technology is forging the foundation for more efficient, transparent and secure financial markets
Financial markets were among the first to adopt new technologies, and that has certainly been true of the derivatives markets, which were early adopters of electronic trading. Going forward, new capabilities will transform the way industry participants communicate, analyze, and trade. I sat down with Google Cloud’s Phil Moyer and former SEC Commissioner, Troy Paredes, […]
Azure – Azure Time Series Insights will be retired on 31 March 2025
We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 31 March 2025 – transition to Azure Data Explorer Read More for the details.
Azure – Review your VNET configurations that may be affected by IP address changes
IP address changes will begin affecting your ability to manage your virtual network-enabled API Management services on 31 March 2023. Read More for the details.
Azure – Templates functionality preview version in Azure portal will be retired on 31 March 2025
Start using template specs in the Azure portal before 31 March 2025. Read More for the details.
GCP – Using GeoJSON in BigQuery for geospatial analytics
The first step in most analytical workloads is to ingest the data that you need for your analysis into your data warehouse. For geospatial analysis involving point, line, or polygon data, ingesting data can be complex because geospatial data comes in myriad data formats. Two of the most popular geospatial formats are GeoJSON and GeoJSON-NL […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports sessions with up to 10,000 live participants
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Presenters can now deliver real-time media to 10,000 participants. Participants can be brought “on stage” with their existing WebRTC connection, allowing them to contribute to the live conversation without missing a moment of content. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon RDS supports itemized billing for RDS Storage, IOPS and backup features
Starting now, AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports (CURs) provide more granular and detailed billing of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) charges. Additional detail is reported for Amazon RDS Backups and General Purpose, Provisioned IOPS, and Magnetic Storage volumes that are provisioned in Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics now supports machine-learning powered call summarization
Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics announces support for call summarization, a machine learning (ML) capability that helps improve the productivity of contact center agents and managers so they can focus on providing excellent customer experiences. Using the Transcribe Call Analytics API, developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) can analyze audio recordings and add call analytics to […]
AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon EBS direct APIs is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, enabling customers to create Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots of their block storage data regardless of where it resides, including on-premises. Customers can use EBS direct APIs to backup their on-premises workloads to EBS snapshots that can be quickly and […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available. This version supports the latest Java feature release OpenJDK 18 and is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can download Corretto 18 from the downloads page. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Corretto is distributed by Amazon under an open source license. Read More […]