Tag: streaming

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces support for streaming over UDP, when using the Windows native client. Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed service that provides non-persistent desktops, and application streaming products to end-users. Previously, you were able to stream over TCP via Windows native client. With your end users now working from home or in different countries compared to your corporate offices, they may operate in sub-optimal network conditions you are unable to control. These network conditions can impact your end users experience and productivity. With UDP streaming your end users will experience a more ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Glue streaming ETL (Extract Transform and Load) can now detect compressed data streaming from Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), and self managed Apache Kafka. It can then automatically decompresses this data without customers having to write code, saving them development hours. AWS Glue Streaming ETL jobs continuously consume data from streaming sources, cleans and transforms the data in-flight, and makes it available for analysis in seconds. Customers compress data prior to streaming in-order to improve performance and to avoid throttling limits by Amazon Kinesis and Amazon MSK. Prior to this feature, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; If you want a VPN to occasionally watch movies, open emails on public WiFi or access geoblocked content, a premium VPN may be overkill for the task. A free VPN may cut it, but you’ll have to pierce through the dense fog of the free VPN market to find a provider that can deliver solid security and performance.  Lucky for you, we already did the legwork for you. We tested out numerous free virtual private networks, weeding out the unscrupulous services to narrow down your options to five reliable providers. These are free versions of ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Matthew Martin; The Apple TV 4K and HD devices rank among the best streaming devices, such as Roku, Fire TV Stick and Chromecast devices. It’s great having multiple streaming services on one platform, but if Apple TV users want to access streaming content from other regions, they’ll need to use the best Apple TV VPN. That said, there are some challenges in getting VPN connections on Apple TVs. Key Takeaways: You can’t install a VPN directly onto Apple TV devices, so you’ll need to use the VPN on your router or use a Smart DNS feature to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce availability of Amazon Transcribe streaming APIs in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Live streaming transcription is used across industries in contact center applications, broadcast events, meetings captions, and e-learning. For example, contact centers can use transcription to remove note taking requirements and improve agent productivity by providing recommendations for next best action. Companies can also make their live sports events or real-time meetings more accessible with automatic subtitles. In addition, customers who ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: George Vetticaden. Posted in Technical | June 09, 2022 5 min read In the first blog of the Universal Data Distribution blog series, we discussed the emerging need within enterprise organizations to take control of their data flows. From origin through all points of consumption both on-prem and in the cloud, all data flows need to be controlled in a simple, secure, universal, scalable, and cost-effective way. With the rapid increase of cloud services where data needs to be delivered (data lakes, lakehouses, cloud warehouses, cloud streaming systems, cloud business processes, etc.), controlling distribution while also ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Oded Rosenmann. By Oded Rosenmann, Global Practice Lead, SaaS Partners – AWSBy Anubhav Sharma, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS Professionals across industries are looking to expand their use of immersive workflows and enable instant and easy collaboration between globally distributed teams. This inspired Varjo, an AWS Partner with an AWS-qualified software offering, to build revolutionary virtual reality/extended reality (VR/XR) hardware and software that together allow customers to see and experience lifelike virtual and augmented content. Varjo has added high-end VR/XR cloud streaming capability to its Varjo Reality Cloud platform, enabling remote people ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) and as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that delivers a standard approach to the security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP uses the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800 series and requires cloud service providers to receive an independent security assessment conducted by a third-party ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Arjun Ruparelia; Stremio is an excellent media player for watching free movies and TV shows. Stremio works very similarly to Kodi — it’s an aggregator that pulls content from streaming platforms and torrent websites, and therefore warrants the use of a VPN (virtual private network). In this guide, we’ll walk you through the best Stremio VPNs for 2022. Key Takeaways: Before you start using Stremio, you’ll also need the right add-ons. Stremio’s add-ons library isn’t that large, but selecting the most popular add-ons will set you up with access to your favorite content. Our guide on the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Metadata is an integral part of data management and governance. The AWS Glue Data Catalog can provide a uniform repository to store and share metadata. The main purpose of the Data Catalog is to provide a central metadata store where disparate systems can store, discover, and use that metadata to query and process the data. Another important aspect of data governance is serving and managing the relationship between data stores and external clients, which are the producers and consumers of data. As the data evolves, especially in streaming use cases, we need a central framework ... Read More