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Cutting through the clutter here’s the most important updates for CTOs from the cloud computing industry
Speed
Fast pace your AWS Apps with CDK Pipelines
Deploying application updates across multiple AWS Accounts or Regions can be extremely time consuming often requiring multiple sprints & dev efforts. CDK Pipelines – currently in Developer Preview promises to jump start CI/CD pipelines by automatically adding predefined stages & actions. For a digital leader they would invest only once to deploy the pipeline and then it would auto update itself along with the source code
Scale
Build Personalized Live Experiences with Amazon Interactive Video Service
Today more and more popular personalities, superstars, influences etc are livestreaming on social media platforms. For brands unfortunately, building such interactive video applications require time & money investments and existing players like Zoom or Webex cannot facilitate personalization. Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) promises an easy to setup live streaming managed solution, creating personalized experiences & new opportunities for viewers to interact with video livestreams.
Get Multi Cloud Ready with Google Cloud BigQuery Omni
Last week at Google Cloud’s Cloud Next event unveiled BigQuery Omni. It promises an extremely simple solution – enable data queries on commonly used BigQuery data warehouse tool from multiple cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be compatible at launch closely followed by Azure. As more than 86% of enterprises taking multi cloud approach, Google has established a competitive advantage to be competition friendly. Without any major investments, enterprises can migrate to or start from Google Cloud and derive ROI from day one.
Scale your DB Needs with RDS Proxy
CTOs had always wished for a crystal ball that predicted surges in traffic. Answering close to these wishes, Amazon RDS Proxy helps scale database needs ensuring no impacts to applications. It establishes a database connection pool managing CPU overhead of creating new database connections based on application needs – without failing or overwhelming the database. Limits can be controlled by admins and it sheds load when requests surpass these limits – thus also controlling infrastructure costs.
Level Up your ML with New AWS DeepRacer Evo
Amazon’s nifty fully autonomous car aimed at developing machine learning skills has a new & updated version – AWS DeepRacer Evo. The addition of more cameras & LiDAR promises exciting head-to-head racing on complex environments and take actions for new racing experiences. If you already own a previous AWS DeepRacer , the AWS DeepRacer Sensor Kit helps you upgrade to the latest.
Performance
Reduce Manufacturing Downtime & Increase OEE with Amazon Virtual Andon
In the manufacturing business machines & minds work together to ensure consumer demands are met just in time. When machines go down or offline, they need attention from the right minds to resolve bottlenecks and go back online faster. AWS introduced Amazon Virtual Andons that can scale across the production floor and detect events. When such events need attention, they are routed to the correct engineer – real time. The solution would also come handy to predict best times for maintenance to ensure Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Azure Blob Storage Increased to 200 TB
With the constant increase in adoption of digital ecosystem, there has been increase in data generated and assets such as videos. To support this ever increasing demand, Microsoft has announced expanding Azure Blob Storage to 200 TB from 5TB , which is a 40x increase in data availability to run various enterprise workloads. Available across regions, Microsoft is the first cloud vendor to offer the largest dynamics data storage capabilities – making an irresistible offer for media & entertainment , finance and healthcare industries.
Security
Encrypt Data In Use with Google Cloud Confidential VMs
All cloud providers enable data encryption at-rest & in-transit capabilities but still have the risk of data leakage when decrypted in local memory. At their #GoogleNext event last week, Google Cloud released Confidential Computing – promising data encryption when it is being processed across temp memory and elsewhere outside the central processing unit (CPU).Currently released in Beta this innovation would unlock many possibilities especially in regulated industries