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AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise is expanding its transforms and formula expressions capabilities
AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale to help you make better, data-driven decisions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing availability of event-driven workflows with AWS Glue and Amazon EventBridge
Customers use AWS Glue workflows tocreate and visualize complex extract, transform, and load (ETL) activities involving multiple crawlers, jobs, and triggers. AWS Glue now supports event-driven workflows, a new capability that lets customers start AWS Glue workflows based on events delivered by Amazon EventBridge. With this new integration, you can trigger a data integration workflow using […]

AWS – FreeRTOS AWS reference integrations now include FreeRTOS 202012.01 LTS libraries
FreeRTOS AWS reference integrations are pre-integrated FreeRTOS projects ported to microcontroller-based evaluation boards that demonstrate end-to-end connectivity to AWS IoT Core. This helps developers save months of development effort and accelerate time to market. FreeRTOS AWS reference integrations now include the new managed AWS IoT Over-the-Air update (OTA) library, AWS IoT Jobs library, and the AWS IoT […]

GCP – Optimizing your Google Cloud spend with BigQuery and Looker
TL;DR: You can visualize your billing data with Looker to gain insights on your spending over time! Use the Google Cloud Cost Management block to quickly get analyzing. Along with the growth of the power and flexibility of the cloud, there’s also an increasing need for better visibility into your cloud spend. If you’re just […]

AWS – Introducing AWS for Health
Healthcare and life science organizations are undergoing transformation from bench-top to the point of care — reinventing how they collaborate, make data-driven clinical and operational decisions, enable precision medicine, accelerate therapy development, and decrease the cost of care. Industry leaders like Wellforce, Rush Medical Center, GRAIL, Moderna, and Genomics England use the AWS Cloud to […]

AWS – AWS CloudFormation now supports more stacks per AWS account
AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on the default number of stacks allowed per AWS account. The number of stacks that can be created in an account is now 2000 (previously 200). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon HealthLake is now Generally Available
Amazon HealthLake, now in General Availability, is a HIPAA-eligible service that enables healthcare providers, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies to securely store, transform, query, and analyze health data at petabyte scale. Read More for the details.

GCP – Create alerts from your logs, available now in Preview
Being alerted to an issue with your application before your customers experience undue interruption is a goal of every development and operations team. While methods for identifying problems exist in many forms, including uptime checks and application tracing, alerts on logs is a prominent method for issue detection. Previously, Cloud Logging only supported alerts on […]

GCP – Beyond malloc efficiency to fleet efficiency
The “memory wall” has been a long-standing challenge in computer hardware design—CPUs are getting faster and faster, but bandwidth and latency to main memory (or worse, to disk) haven’t kept up. The large working sets of data center workloads have exacerbated this problem, causing translation lookaside buffer (TLB) misses to become a large portion of […]
GCP – Introducing Quilkin: open-source UDP proxies built for game server communication
Traditionally, dedicated game servers for real time multiplayer games have used bespoke UDP protocols for communication and synchronization of gameplay among the players within a game. This communication is most often bundled into monolithic game servers and clients, pairing the technical functionality of communication protocols, such as custom network physics synchronisation, security, access control, telemetry […]