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AWS – AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager, a new capability in AWS Systems Manager that helps you streamline and scale your remote server management process is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS GovCloud (US) is designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers with stringent U.S. federal, state, or local […]

AWS – Announcing support for linear interpolation in AWS IoT SiteWise
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports linear interpolation, enabling customers to estimate and retrieve the values of missing data points in their time series data. Read More for the details.

GCP – EdTechs transform education with AI and Analytics
Over the last year, COVID-19 presented unforeseen challenges for practically every type of business and organization—including schools, colleges, and universities. For educational institutions, the pandemic was an unapologetic agent of acceleration, shifting one billion learners from in-person to online learning within two months. The rapid transition to online learning exposed many schools’ lack of readiness […]

GCP – 6 database trends to watch
In a data-driven, global, always-on world, databases are the engines that let businesses innovate and transform. As databases get more sophisticated and more organizations look for managed database services to handle infrastructure needs, there are a few key trends we’re seeing. Here’s what to watch. We’re looking forward to what’s next in databases. You can’t […]

AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports video prioritization policies
The Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript now provides a way for builders to prioritize video streams according to their online meeting user case. If there is insufficient bandwidth to download all available video streams, the Amazon Chime SDK uses the video prioritization policy to maximize the fidelity and quality of high-priority video streams. Read More […]

AWS – AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 and Go CDK is now available for Developer Preview
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 is now available for Developer Preview, and offers two new capabilities for CDK users. The first is all CDK versions now support Go, expanding the number of programming languages developers can use to define infrastructure-as-code, and provision through AWS CloudFormation. The second is that all stable constructs […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift announces preview of cross-account data sharing
Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to share live, transactionally consistent data across different Redshift clusters without the complexity and delays associated with data copies and data movement. Ability to share data across clusters that are in the same AWS account is already generally available. Now you can preview cross-account data sharing to share data across Redshift […]

AWS – AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 14.x
Starting today, you can now use the Node.js 14.x runtime to develop functions in AWS Lambda@Edge. This runtime is in addition to the currently supported Node.js 10.x and Node.js 12.x runtimes. Node.js 14.x, the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Node.js, uses the new V8 8.1 engine and provides better performance than the previous […]

Azure – Azure Sphere version 21.04 is now generally available
The latest release of Azure Sphere brings enhancements and features to the OS, SDKs, and Visual Studio extensions. Read More for the details.
GCP – The modern web architecture jigsaw puzzle, made easy for you
Delivering web-based software is no longer as simple as ssh’ing into a LAMP server and vi’ing a php file. For good reasons, many of us have evolved practices and adopted technologies to address growing complexities and modern needs. Recently I put together a jigsaw puzzle of various technologies and practices so that I could deploy […]