Tag: streaming

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition service that you can use to add speech-to-text capability to your applications. Starting today, you can utilize Amazon Transcribe to automatically remove personal identifiable information (PII) from your streaming transcription results. Amazon Transcribe uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to help identify sensitive information such as Social Security number, credit card/bank account information, and contact information (i.e. name, email address, phone number and mailing address). With this feature, companies can provide their contact center agents with valuable transcripts for on-going conversation while maintaining privacy standards. These transcripts can then be used to ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Brian Murray; If you’ve ever been streaming something on your phone or computer and wished you could watch it on your TV, you’re certainly not alone. Today, a number of smart TV options on the market offer just that, but there’s a way to turn any TV into a versatile smart TV: with a streaming device called a Fire TV Stick. If you’ve never heard of this and are wondering, “what is a Fire Stick?” then read on to learn more. Key Takeaways: The Amazon Fire TV Stick is a great way to turn almost any TV ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Kit Copson; Caitriona Balfe stars as World War 2 nurse Claire Randall in Outlander. Following her journey through time needn’t be difficult or frustrating. Read on to discover how to watch Outlander online in 2021. By Kit Copson (Writer)— Last Updated: 05 Sep'21 2021-09-05T13:31:35+00:00 History enthusiasts and old souls far and wide are likely well-acquainted with the TV series Outlander. A stunning fusion of historical fiction, drama and romance starring Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan, Outlander is unsurprisingly one of the most sought-after shows available to stream. Let’s cut to the chase and dig into how to ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; In addition to cat videos and the like, YouTube has a vast collection of excellent, free knowledge. Students use the platform to boost classroom lessons, and high performers at work use it to up-skill. Yet despite YouTube’s educational merits, some learning institutions and workplaces still block it. We’ve put together this guide on how to unblock YouTube to help you get around these restrictions. Key Takeaways: A VPN is the best way to unblock YouTube at school, work or in countries with strict internet censorship.Google Translate is also an excellent way to unblock YouTube, but ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jean-Sébastien Brunner. Today, we are announcing that Microsoft has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021. We believe this report truly reflects the market momentum of Azure Stream Analytics, satisfied customers, a growing partner ecosystem, and the overall strength of our Azure cloud platform. Take a look at the Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021 report. The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021 report evaluated streaming analytics offerings from 14 different solution providers, and we are honored to share that Forrester has recognized Microsoft as a Leader in this category ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. Traditionally, streaming data can be complex to manage due to the large amounts of data arriving from many separate sources. Managing fluctuations in traffic and durably persisting messages as they arrive is a non-trivial task. Using a serverless approach, AWS provides a number of services that help manage large numbers of messages, alleviating much of the infrastructure burden. In this blog post, I compare several AWS services and how to choose between these options in streaming data workloads. Comparing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with Amazon SQS queues While you can use both services ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The AWS Solutions team recently updated AWS Streaming Data Solution for Amazon MSK, an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an automated configuration of the AWS services necessary to easily capture, store, process, and deliver streaming data. This release adds support for IAM access control when creating the Amazon MSK cluster. By using IAM Access Control, customers no longer need to build and run one-off access management systems to control client authentication and authorization for Apache Kafka. Also included is support for SASL/SCRAM authentication when creating the Amazon MSK cluster or when configuring an AWS Lambda function to ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; There are a lot of supposedly “free” VPN services. Though they’ll give you the impression that you’re being protected, most of the time you’re paying with your privacy. In some cases, you’re even paying with your online safety, with phony services such as Hola VPN wrangling users into a botnet. To try to pierce through the dense fog that those pseudo-services have established, we scoured the internet for the best free VPN services. While they can’t contend with the top providers in the field, they’ll keep you protected with no strings attached. The only exception ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Organizations continue to need options that rapidly enable users to work from any location and any computer while remaining secure and productive. To streamline deployments of Amazon WorkSpaces using WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) without having to install a native client application, your users can now access Amazon WorkSpaces from supported web browsers on Windows, macOS, or Linux computers. The new Amazon WorkSpaces web access experience is powered by the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP), a cloud-native streaming protocol that enables a consistent user experience when your users access WorkSpaces across global distances and unreliable networks. Web access with WSP ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. With IoT devices scaling up rapidly, real-time data integration and data processing has become a major challenge. This is why customers often choose Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for message ingestion, and Apache Kafka to build a real-time streaming data pipeline. AWS IoT Core now supports a new IoT rule action to deliver messages from your devices directly to your Amazon MSK or self-managed Apache Kafka clusters for data analysis and visualization, without you having to write a single line of code. In this post, you learn how to set up a real-time streaming data pipeline ... Read More