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AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise enhances optimized storage in hot path data for higher throughput
Today, AWS IoT SiteWise announced new performance enhancements that will significantly improve the retrieval of industrial data from its hot storage tier. We have improved the GetAssetPropertyValueHistory and BatchGetAssetPropertyValueHistory APIs by increasing the maximum number of results for each paginated response from 250 up to 20K. With these upgrades, developers can now retrieve asset property […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now available in 4 additional AWS regions
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (Paris). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight adds new scatterplot options supporting additional use cases
Amazon QuickSight now supports advance use cases for scatterplots with new options like support for visualizing unaggregated data, new ‘label’ field well and performance improvements. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Athena now supports Apache Hudi 0.12.2
You can now use Amazon Athena to query tables created with Apache Hudi 0.12.2 which includes support for improved scalability of queries accessing data sets in Amazon S3 data lake. The updated integration enables you to use Athena to query Hudi 0.12.2 tables managed via Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, Apache Hive or other compatible services. […]

GCP – Connecting GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Deploy
Google Cloud customers depend on Google Cloud Deploy to deliver their software to production. Taking advantage of a fully managed deployment service means you don’t need to burn cycles scaling and maintaining a self-hosted platform, and the controls and constraints built into Cloud Deploy help with making your pipelines reliable, safe, and trusted. Typically, Cloud […]

GCP – Manage IAM permissions with the Google Cloud mobile app
What’s new with Permissions Management on the Cloud Mobile App Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the foundation of a strong cloud security posture, ensuring that the right access and permissions for cloud resources are granted across your organization. The Google Cloud mobile app gives cloud administrators the ability to quickly and easily manage their […]

GCP – Uptime checks for availability
A reliable system and end-user experience is critical to an organization’s success. Any downtime or degradation of user experience across an organization’s applications can impair their ability to create value for its stakeholders. Cloud Monitoring’s uptime check capability enables you to monitor your application’s availability and performance. The primary purpose of an uptime check is […]

GCP – Model accidents and potholes using Waze and NOAA data in BigQuery
Transportation agencies face the challenge of managing heavy amounts of data from diverse and high-velocity sources. It can be difficult to gather insights across the disparate sources, let alone be fast enough to inform operational decisions. Traditionally, agencies rely on yearly reporting to understand the state of their operations, but this limits their ability to […]

GCP – Bringing Google Cloud generative AI to popular workplace apps
Generative AI is poised to transform and streamline many of the most common processes and tasks each of us performs every day at work — like how we communicate, how we analyze data, how we interface with apps, or even how we summarize content and conversations. At Google Cloud, our open approach to generative AI […]
GCP – Tradera promotes sustainable shopping with Google Cloud
AtTradera, we have a saying, ‘Don’t be square, get circular.’ Our online circular marketplace only allows used, crafted, or restored items and spare parts for repairs to be sold. Our ethos to reduce and re-use is engrained throughout our business operations, down to our IT infrastructure. As one of the largest re-commerce platforms in Sweden, […]