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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 […]
GCP – Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Reducing toil
Almost two decades of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has proved the value of incorporating software engineering practices into traditional infrastructure and operations management. In a parallel world, we’re finding that similar principles can radically improve outcomes for the Security Operations Center (SOC), a domain plagued with infrastructure and operational challenges. As more organizations go through […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: November 2021
We’re coming up on the end of the year, yet many of the most pressing security themes from 2021 remain the same, from securing open source software, to enabling zero trust architectures and more. I’ll recap the latest updates from the Google Cybersecurity Action Team and industry progress on important security efforts in this month’s […]
GCP – Learn Beam patterns with Clickstream processing of Google Tag Manager data
Building your first pipeline can be a daunting task for a developer. When there are so many tools that can get the job done, how should you go about getting started? For power, flexibility, and ease of use, we find that the combination of Apache Beam and Dataflow offers developers a variety of ways to […]