Tag: AD

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports prefetch ad requests for personalized ad insertion. Prefetching manages the request of ads in advance of ad breaks, increasing the time an ad decision server (ADS) has to respond. Live events with spikes in audience viewership benefit from prefetch ad requests as they provide additional time for real-time bidding for ad impression transactions and for new ad assets to transcode which can increase revenue and ad-fill rates. To learn more, visit the MediaTailor documentation pages. AWS Elemental MediaTailor is a channel assembly and ad-insertion service for creating linear OTT channels using existing video ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. This post is co-written with Mat Sharpe, Technical Lead, AWS & Systems Engineering from Integral Ad Science. Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. The company’s mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world’s leading brands, publishers, and platforms. IAS does this through data-driven technologies with actionable real-time signals and insight. In this post, we discuss how IAS uses AWS Lake Formation and Amazon Athena to efficiently manage governance and security of data. The challenge IAS processes over 100 billion ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, you can use Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards to authenticate users into Amazon WorkSpaces through your self-managed Active Directory (AD) and AWS Directory Service AD Connector in US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. Additionally, you can now use the AWS Management Console to configure smart card authentication with AWS Directory Service. Previously, smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces was only supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region and could only be configured through the AWS ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Built on actual Microsoft Active Directory (AD), AWS Managed Microsoft AD makes it easy to migrate AD-aware applications while reducing the work of managing AD infrastructure in the AWS Cloud. You can use your Microsoft AD credentials to connect to AWS applications such as Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle database engines. You have the flexibility to keep your identities in your existing Microsoft AD or create and manage identities in your AWS managed directory. AD Connector is a proxy that enables AWS applications to use your existing on-premises AD identities without ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Elaine Rosenberg. Hello, everyone! This is the week of NODES 2021! We hope you will be there and can watch the keynote by our awesome CEO, Emil Eifrem. It is on June 17 at 8:00 a.m. ET, 12:00 p.m. UTC, 5:30 p.m. IST. Register here. In this edition, we have selected Samuel Chalvet as our featured commumnity member. He will be presenting at NODES and we look forward to hearing from him. Michael Hunger put together a way to use the newest Google tool, deps.dev, to extract dependencies from a repo. He shows us ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can set up AD authentication for file transfers with AWS Transfer Family during the file transfer server creation process by selecting your directory and specifying which AD groups can access files stored in S3 or EFS. Once you configure access for the specified AD groups, users belonging to the AD groups can authenticate using their existing AD credentials and securely transfer files over the enabled protocols ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With the latest release of JDBC and ODBC drivers for Amazon Athena, you can use Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory (AD) or Ping Identity’s PingFederate for authentication with compatible business intelligence, SQL, or embedded analytics applications. This release expands the authentication options available to customers using Amazon Athena’s drivers. You can now authenticate using AWS IAM credentials, Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Microsoft Azure AD, PingFederate, Okta, and custom identity providers ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Organizations across the globe are striving to improve the scalability and cost efficiency of the data warehouse. Offloading data and data processing from a data warehouse to a data lake empowers companies to introduce new use cases like ad hoc data analysis and AI and machine learning (ML), reusing the same data stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This approach avoids data silos and allows you to process the data at very large scale while keeping the data access cost-effective. Starting off with this new approach can bring with it several challenges: Choosing ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Jeff Comstock. Today we’re announcing new capabilities to help customer and field service teams deliver more consistent and engaging experiences, from the call center to on-site visits. The new features for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service provide the agility to adapt to changing customer needs, as well as streamline agent and technician workspaces, so they can resolve issues faster. Let’s look at what’s new in this release. Be sure to review the full release notes for Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Dynamics 365 Field Service. Dynamics 365 Customer ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Bill Primerarno; Can your Financial Planning & Analytics team (FP&A) alter financial plans, reforecast and modify budgets in real-time? Or, have traditional processes kept your entire corporate finance team tied to spreadsheets and outdated expectations? We know that extended planning and analysis (xP&A) is the gold standard for how companies will approach planning. xP&A is the focus of the digital transformation, and FP&A is one of the defining use cases. Accurate forecasting drives reliable, data-driven decisions, but too often the work is created in an ad hoc manner and siloed across business units. As ... Read More