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GCP – Want to supercharge your DevOps practice? Research says try SRE
Reliability matters. When users can’t access your application, if it’s slow to respond, or it behaves unexpectedly, they don’t get the value that you intend to provide. That’s why at Google we like to say that reliability is the most important feature of any system. Its impact can be seen all the way to the […]
GCP – Getting started with the Security Foundations Blueprint automation repo
By now, you may have already read through our previous blog posts covering the Security Foundations Blueprint and perused the security foundations guide. If you did, then the next question you might ask is how you could put these blueprints to use for your Google Cloud infrastructure and benefit from all of these security-focused best […]
AWS – AWS Ground Station launches expanded support for Software Defined Radios in Preview
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) support for Software Defined Radios (SDRs) to help customers downlink more data in less time, saving cost. AWS Ground Station currently supports SDRs for narrowband (less than 54MHz), but in the past did not support SDRs for wideband (greater than 54Mhz). Expanding SDR support to […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise now supports hot and cold storage tiers for industrial data
AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service to collect, store, organize, and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale. AWS IoT SiteWise now supports two storage tiers for equipment data: a hot tier optimized for real-time applications, and a cold tier optimized for analytical applications. The hot tier stores frequently accessed data with lower write-to-read […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M6a instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of general purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances. M6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC (code named Milan) processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz, deliver up to 35% better price performance compared to M5a instances, and 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 […]
AWS – AWS AI for data analytics (AIDA) partner solutions
Today, we announce AI for data analytics (AIDA), a set of AWS Partners solutions that embed predictive analytics into mainstream analytics workspaces. AIDA partners solutions make it easy for business experts to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to derive better insights from data and take action. AIDA features solutions from the following […]
AWS – Securely manage your AWS IoT Greengrass edge devices using AWS Systems Manager
Today, AWS IoT Greengrass announced a new integration with AWS Systems Manager that helps IT and edge device administrators to securely manage their edge devices, such as industrial equipment and industrial PCs, alongside their IT assets, such as EC2 instances, AWS Outposts, and on-premises servers. Read More for the details.
AWS – New Greengrass Software Catalog with several new components makes it easier to build IoT edge applications
Today, we are launching Greengrass Software Catalog, a collection of AWS IoT Greengrass software components developed by the Greengrass community. Instead of developing device applications from scratch, you can now choose from a list of pre-built Greengrass components on GitHub to kick-start your IoT edge application. You can easily install, use, and modify these components […]
AWS – Customize your AWS Well-Architected Review using Custom Lenses
The AWS Well-Architected Tool now offers the ability for customers to create their own custom lenses. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (Preview)
Metrics Insights is a new feature from Amazon CloudWatch that is in preview. As a fast, flexible, SQL based query engine, Metrics Insights enables developers, operators, systems engineers, and cloud solutions architects to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real time and helps you use these insights to reduce time to […]