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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 […]

AWS – AWS IoT Core now supports VPC Endpoints
AWS IoT Core is now integrated with AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to create private IoT Core data endpoints in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using Interface VPC Endpoints. AWS PrivateLink is an AWS technology that enables private communication between your VPC and AWS services, such as IoT Core, by using private IP addresses that are […]
GCP – Reaffirming Google Cloud’s commitments to EU businesses in light of the EDPB’s Recommendations
From retail companies to auto manufacturers and financial services institutions, organizations across Europe rely on our cloud services to run their businesses. We are committed to helping our customers meet stringent data protection requirements by offering industry-leading technical controls, contractual commitments, and continued transparency to support their risk assessments and compliance needs. On June 21, […]