Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports creation of the AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) format in 4K frame sizes and with 10-bit color depth. These enhancements expand the AV1 encoding capabilities of AWS Elemental MediaConvert to enable creation of High Dynamic Range (HDR) 4K content for display on modern, color rich 4K playback devices. With AV1, you can deliver high-quality SD, HD, and now 4K high dynamic range video to mobile and other devices at low bitrates unachievable with traditional formats such as AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265). For details on AV1 pricing, please visit the MediaConvert pricing page. With ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Anil Sakhi. By Anil Sakhi, Practice Director, Cloud & Digital, Wipro virtuadesk – WiproBy Tushar Agarwal, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS Wipro As workforces work remotely more than ever before, enterprises are increasingly looking at digital workspace as a solution that can help their teams work remotely in a secure manner. While employees look at flexibility of working from anywhere, InfoSec teams want to ensure sensitive data stays secure. Organizations from domains like financial services and pharmaceuticals have long embraced virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology for security and compliance reasons. With digital becoming ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon DocumentDB is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Data is being produced, streamed, and consumed at an immense rate, and that rate is projected to grow exponentially in the future. In particular, JSON is the most widely used data format across streaming technologies and workloads. As applications, websites, and machines increasingly adopt data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, which serve as a highly available transport layer that decouples the data producers from data consumers, it can become progressively more challenging for teams to coordinate and evolve JSON Schemas. Adding or removing a field or changing the data ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have added support in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL minor versions 13.5, 12.9, 11.14, 10.19, and 9.6.24. We have also added support in Amazon RDS on Outposts for PostgreSQL minor versions 13.5 and 12.9. This release closes security vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL and contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community. This also includes the final release of PostgreSQL 9.6 ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Elaine Perales. By Elaine Perales, Manager, Global Programs at AWS The APN Ambassador Program features a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners. AWS Ambassadors are prominent leaders who are passionate about sharing their Amazon Web Services (AWS) technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. Our Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events. As a result of their ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Streaming ETL jobs in AWS Glue can consume data from streaming sources such as Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka, clean and transform those data streams in-flight, as well as continuously load the results into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, data warehouses, or other data stores. The always-on nature of streaming jobs poses a unique challenge when handling fast-changing reference data that is used to enrich data streams within the AWS Glue streaming ETL job. AWS Glue processes real-time data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using micro-batches. The foreachbatch method used to process ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Power BI Report Server January 2022 Feature Summary We’re excited to bring you a new version of Power BI Report Server this winter! With the January 2022 update, we have a variety of new enhancements, including page and bookmarks navigators, new sorting options for legend, new formatting options for text, pie and donut chart rotations and many more. Please continue to read on! Here’s a complete list of the updates: Reporting Modeling Other    Page and Bookmark Navigators Previously, setting up a custom page or bookmark navigation experience in ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. A community member on the postgis-users mailing list had a question recently: ... Read More