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AWS – Alexa for Business now available on Logitech Solutions for Zoom Rooms
Alexa for Business is now available to run directly on Logitech Zoom Rooms, enabling customers with voice-activated control without deploying additional hardware. Users get a touch-free way to interact with Zoom Rooms and keep meetings on track by leveraging Alexa to join meetings and be reminded to wrap up when a meeting is about to […]

AWS – AWS X-Ray .NET Auto-Instrumentation Agent is now available in beta
AWS X-Ray .NET auto-instrumentation agent is now available in beta, enabling customers to collect trace data without having to modify existing applications written in .NET and .NET Core. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI now generally available for production use
The AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface (SAM CLI) is now generally available. SAM CLI is a deployment toolkit that also allows you to locally build, test, and debug serverless applications. SAM CLI v.1.0.0 is a stable version recommended for building production serverless applications. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), EU (Stockholm), EU (Paris), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (London). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available for shared EBS Snapshots
Starting today, you can enable Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) on shared snapshots. Read More for the details.

AWS – FreeRTOS now supports over-the-air update (OTA) suspend and resume operations
FreeRTOS now supports the ability to suspend and resume an over-the-air update (OTA) operation. With this feature, a FreeRTOS device can suspend an in-progress OTA if it disconnects from the network, and then resume the OTA when it reconnects. This helps OTA downloads to complete quickly when there is intermittent network connectivity. For additional details, […]

AWS – Cypress PSoC 64 Standard Secure Microcontroller is Qualified for FreeRTOS
The Cypress PSoC 64 Standard Secure microcontroller is now qualified for FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of FreeRTOS features and benefits using the Cypress PSoC 64 Standard Secure AWS Wi-Fi Bluetooth Pioneer Kit available from Cypress. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure ultra disks are now available in the US Gov Arizona region
Azure ultra disks are now available in the US Gov Arizona region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports accessing Build Environments with AWS Session Manager
AWS CodeBuild now supports accessing your build environments with AWS Session Manager so you can investigate and diagnose build issues. With support for AWS Session Manager, you can access your Linux and Windows build environments through an interactive one-click browser-based shell or through the AWS CLI. Read More for the details.
GCP – Traffic Director and gRPC—proxyless services for your service mesh
Lot of organizations turn to service mesh because it solves tedious and complicated networking problems, especially in environments that make heavy use of microservices. It also allows them to manage application networking policies, like load balancing and traffic management policies, in a centralized place. But adopting a service mesh has traditionally meant (1) managing infrastructure […]