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AWS – AWS IoT Device Management is now supported on AWS CloudFormation
We are excited to announce that AWS IoT Device Management resources are now supported on AWS CloudFormation. With a few clicks, you can now use a CloudFormation template to pre-configure and deploy IoT fleet management infrastructure like Job Templates, Fleet Metrics, and IoT Logging settings in a standardized and repeatable way across multiple regions and […]

GCP – How to create and safeguard your admin accounts
Setting up your new cloud infrastructure is scary. Extra scary when you realize that someone (is it gonna be you?) gets to have phenomenal cosmic power over the whole thing. Yes, I’m talking about the admin account, and today we’ll dig into why they are important, dangerous and different. When the team at pistach.io got […]

Azure – Public preview: VM Applications – Manage and deploy applications to Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
With VM Applications, you can create and securely store application packages in an Azure Compute Gallery. Package management is greatly simplified with logical grouping and versioning capabilities and packages can be shared with other users in your organization, across subscriptions, and tenants. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports Microsoft SQL Server deployments using Amazon EBS gp3, io2, and io2 Block Express volumes
AWS Launch Wizard supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) gp3, io2, and io2 Block Express volumes for Microsoft SQL Server deployments. Now you can take full advantage of the new generations of EBS volumes when you use Launch Wizard for the high availability or single node deployments of SQL Server on Amazon EC2. Read More […]

GCP – Get 6X read performance with Memorystore for Redis Read Replicas
Modern applications need to process large-scale data at millisecond latency to provide experiences like instant gaming leaderboards, fast analysis of streaming data from millions of IoT sensors, or real-time threat detection of malicious websites. In-memory datastores are a critical component to deliver the scale, performance, and availability required by these modern applications. Memorystore makes it […]

GCP – Cart.com empowers brands with unified ecommerce platform
The ecommerce playing field has been hard to navigate for most retailers, and Cart.com is on a mission to change that. Traditionally, retailers needing to run their online store, order fulfillment, customer service, marketing, and other essential activities have had to cobble together systems to get the capabilities they need – much less having access […]

GCP – Get planet-scale monitoring with Managed Service for Prometheus
Prometheus, the de facto standard for Kubernetes monitoring, works well for many basic deployments, but managing Prometheus infrastructure can become challenging at scale. As Kubernetes deployments continue to play a bigger role in enterprise IT, scaling Prometheus for a large number of metrics across a global footprint has become a pressing need for many organizations. […]

GCP – Insights from our global hybrid work survey
Google Workspace recently commissioned Economist Impact to complete a global survey (October 2021)* on the state of hybrid work, including its challenges and opportunities. We already knew that the pandemic had fundamentally changed the world of work, but the survey emphasizes the scale, reach, and longevity of those changes.. Over 75% of respondents believe that […]

AWS – AWS App Runner supports AWS CDK to build and deploy applications
AWS App Runner now supports using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to build and deploy applications. AWS CDK enables you to compose your infrastructure across AWS from a single source using familiar programming languages such as Python and Node.js. With the AWS CDK integration, you can create App Runner services by defining your […]
AWS – Safer interrupt management demo for FreeRTOS kernel
FreeRTOS now contains an example code that demonstrates a method of minimizing the time an application spends in privileged mode in FreeRTOS ports on microcontrollers (MCU) with Memory Protection Unit (MPU) support. FreeRTOS ports with MPU support enable MCU applications to be more robust and secure by running application tasks in unprivileged mode, where they have […]