Category: Cloud Offerings

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; The Android TV box has access to a wider variety of entertainment services than a regular TV. However, since it uses the internet to unlock these services, it’s vulnerable to the same cyber threats as your other Android devices. Because of this, you have to install the best VPN for Android TV box to enjoy your favorite shows securely. Finding a VPN for your Android TV box can be a challenge. You have to consider many factors, such as features, usability and price to find a virtual private network that best meets your needs. We ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Cloud storage has been at the core of business for years, serving as a way for smaller teams to share and collaborate in the office and around the globe. The best cloud storage for teams makes sharing and collaborating easy, and in this guide, we’re going to count down our top five picks.  Key Takeaways: Each of the services below are built to make working with your team easy, from Huddle’s real-time document management tools to pCloud’s dense user control. Out of all our picks, though, Egnyte Connect stands out. Although other services may beat ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Ronald Bradford; When you work with AWS Aurora you have limited admin privileges. There are some different grants for MySQL including SELECT INTO S3 and LOAD FROM S3 that replace the loss of functionality to SELECT INTO OUTFILE and mysqldump/mysqlimport using a delimited format. While I know and use lambda capabilities, I have never executed anything with INVOKE LAMDBA directly from the database.This week I found out about INVOKE COMPREHEND (had to look that product up), and INVOKE SAGEMAKER (which I used independently). These are machine learning capabilities that enable you to build custom integrations using ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the launch of Asia Pacific (Osaka) as a standard AWS Region, expanding Osaka from its design as a Local Region. The number of Availability Zones (AZs) in Asia Pacific (Osaka) is increasing from one to three, the service portfolio is expanding, and new pricing options are available. The expansion of the Osaka Region is a continuation of our initiatives to support the growth of the country. The AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region is designed to offer the same security, availability, and scalability as any other AWS region. This is AWS’s ninth ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Oracle MySQL Group; HeatWave is designed to enable customers to run analytics on data which is stored in MySQL databases without the need for ETL. This service is built on an innovative, in-memory analytics engine which is architected for scalability and performance and is optimized for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen 2 hardware. This results in a very performant solution for SQL analytics at a fraction of the cost compared to other cloud services including AWS Aurora, Redshift, Google Big Query, RDS.  The amount of acceleration an application would observe with HeatWave depends upon a number ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS DeepRacer allows you to get hands-on with machine learning (ML) through a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning, a 3D racing simulator on the AWS DeepRacer console, a global racing league, and hundreds of customer-initiated community races. Whether you want to win, or just increase your understanding of machine learning, the AWS DeepRacer League is the best way to get rolling with ML. We’re excited to announce that the green flag has dropped and racing action for the 2021 AWS DeepRacer League season is now underway. Starting today, the AWS DeepRacer League features ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS AppConfig is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS AppConfig helps you deploy application configurations in a managed and monitored way just like you do with code deployments, but without the need to change the code if a configuration value changes. AWS AppConfig is intended for users who want to quickly and safely deploy changes that are used during runtime of an application or platform. AWS AppConfig is a feature of AWS Systems Manager, which helps you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources. With AppConfig, you can configure, validate, deploy, and monitor ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, we are announcing the launch of Real-Time Contact Lens for Amazon Connect in the Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions. This expands support for Real-Time Contact Lens from the US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions that were launched at re:Invent 2020. Real-Time Contact Lens enables Amazon Connect customers to use AI-powered speech analytics to access live call transcripts, understand customer sentiment, and identify call drivers in real-time. Contact center supervisors can create rules in Amazon Connect to be alerted about customer experience issues based on ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: J.D. Bean. Government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and other public sector organizations process and store sensitive data including health records, tax data, personally identifiable information (PII), student data, criminal justice information, and financial data. These workloads carry stringent security and compliance requirements to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this data both in transit and at rest. Best practices for protection of data in transit include enforcing appropriately defined encryption requirements, authenticating network communications, and implementing secure key and certificate management systems. In this post, I demonstrate a solution for deploying a highly available ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Connect now allows you to separate historical metrics into 15 minute intervals. Historical metrics reports include data about past, completed activity and performance in your contact center. This 15 minute interval provides a new time range to allow more granular insights into queue, routing profile, and agent performance. These insights can be used in variety of ways, which includes improving the accuracy of contact forecasting and staffing plans. 15 minute intervals are available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. There is no additional charge to use this interval. To learn more about Amazon ... Read More