Global demand for video content has been rapidly increasing and now has the major audiences of Internet and mobile network traffic. Over-the-top streaming services such as Twitch continue to see an explosion of content creators who are seeking live delivery with great image quality, while live event broadcasters are increasingly looking to embrace agile cloud infrastructure to reduce costs without sacrificing reliability, and efficiently scale with demand. Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances that are designed to provide the best price performance for multi-stream video transcoding with resolutions up to 4K UHD. These VT1 instances feature Xilinx® Alveo U30 media accelerator transcoding cards with accelerated H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC codecs and provide up…
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0
In 2015, we launched Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. Amazon ES has been a popular service for log analytics because of its ability to ingest high volumes of log data. Additionally, with UltraWarm and cold storage tiers, you can lower costs to one-tenth of traditional hot storage on Amazon ES. Because Amazon ES integrates with Logstash, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, and AWS IoT, you can select the secure data ingestion tool that meets your use case requirements. Developers embrace open-source software for many reasons. One of the most important reasons is the freedom to use…
Amazon EKS Anywhere – Now Generally Available to Create and Manage Kubernetes Clusters on Premises
At AWS re:Invent 2020, we preannounced new deployment options of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Anywhere and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere in your own data center. Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of Amazon EKS Anywhere, a deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables you to easily create and operate Kubernetes clusters on premises using VMware vSphere starting today. EKS Anywhere provides an installable software package for creating and operating Kubernetes clusters on premises and automation tooling for cluster lifecycle support. EKS Anywhere brings a consistent AWS management experience to your data center, building on the strengths of Amazon EKS Distro, an open-source distribution for Kubernetes used by Amazon EKS. EKS Anywhere is…
Decoding the Social Effects Of Media with Machine Learning
What if media were optimized to benefit people? This thought-provoking question is at the core of Harmony Labs‘ mission. A nonprofit organization headquartered in New York City, Harmony Labs strives to better understand the impact of media on society, and build communities and tools to reform and transform media systems. As Brian Wanieswki, Executive Director at Harmony Labs puts it: “The media systems that we have now, for better or worse, have become outrage machines and sorting machines that put people into groups of like minds. The business incentive structures of these systems are such that the more outrage there is, the more profit there is. Political events across the world in recent years have borne out what these media…