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GCP – Live captioning in Google Meet expanding to 4 new languages
Earlier today we announced we’re rolling out live caption support in Google Meet to four additional languages: French, German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (Spain and Latin America). Live captioning in Google Meet uses Google’s speech-to-text technology to provide live captions to help participants who may be deaf or hard of hearing follow along and stay […]
AWS – Introducing AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN: connect and manage LoRaWAN devices at scale easily and cost-effectively
We are thrilled to announce AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, a fully managed capability that allows AWS IoT Core customers to connect and manage wireless devices that use low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) connectivity with the AWS cloud. Using AWS IoT Core, enterprises can now setup a private LoRaWAN network by connecting their own […]
AWS – Manage Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon EC2 using Application Manager capability in AWS Systems Manager
With Application Manager, a new capability in AWS Systems Manager, it is now easier to manage SQL Server workloads that are deployed using AWS Launch Wizard. Application Manager automatically imports SQL Server resources created by AWS Launch Wizard, and enables you to perform operational tasks such as database integrity checks, backup and restore, and index […]
AWS – Deploy Microsoft Active Directory Infrastructure on Amazon EC2 using AWS Launch Wizard
You can now use AWS Launch Wizard to deploy new Active Directory (AD) infrastructure on Amazon EC2, or add domain controllers to an existing Active Directory hosted on Amazon EC2 or on-premises. AWS Launch Wizard uses AWS Well-Architected Framework to guide you through setting up your deployment on environment which includes setting up Amazon Virtual […]
AWS – Announcing AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect public preview
Today, we are announcing the public preview of ML Detect, a new feature of AWS IoT Device Defender that automatically detects device-level operational and security anomalies across your fleet by learning from past data. Today, customers can use AWS IoT Device Defender’s Rules Detect to manually set static alarms. ML Detect makes this easier by […]
AWS – Announcing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new capability of AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, process, and monitor industrial equipment data on-premises
Today, we are announcing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new feature of AWS IoT SiteWise providing software that runs on-premises at industrial sites and makes it easy to collect, process, and monitor equipment data locally before sending the data to AWS Cloud destinations. SiteWise Edge is installed on local hardware such as third-party industrial […]
AWS – Introducing AWS IoT EduKit
AWS introduces AWS IoT EduKit, an easy way to learn to build IoT applications using AWS services through a prescriptive learning program. AWS IoT EduKit helps developers – from students to experienced engineers and professionals – receive hands-on experience building end-to-end IoT applications by combining a reference hardware kit with a set of easy to […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP protocols with enhancements to OPC-UA data ingestion
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports data ingestion using ModBus TCP and EtherNet/IP (EIP) protocols. You can do so by adding Modbus or EIP devices as data sources to your SiteWise Gateway. For data ingestion from OPC-UA data sources, you can now customize the scan mode and scan rate along with specifying deadbands. Lastly, you can […]
AWS – Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana
Today, AWS and Grafana Labs launched the AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana. This plugin lets you easily visualize your AWS IoT SiteWise data in your Grafana dashboards. With this plugin, you can easily visualize and monitor your equipment data in near-real time using the wide range of visualization options in Grafana dashboards. You can […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver data to Apache Kafka clusters
AWS IoT Core now supports a new IoT rule action to deliver messages from your devices directly to your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (“Amazon MSK”) or self-managed Apache Kafka clusters for data analysis and visualization, without writing a single line of code. Read More for the details.