Embracing operational analytics for better development
Friday, November 8, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Operational analytics defines how we use business analytics to improve business operations. Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers have chosen DynamoDB as their database for mobile, web, gaming, ad tech, IoT and other applications that need low-late...
A serverless search engine for Data Scientists and Developers emerges
Friday, March 22, 2019 by Richard Harris
Rockset announced the general availability of a cloud service that allows developers and data scientists to put complex data sets to use in minutes instead of weeks.
Current trends in technology - smart devices, digital lending, fraud detection, omnichannel retail, machine learning, microservices, and real-time business dashboards - all require clean...
IoT Gateway uses Ubuntu Core and integrates with AWS IoT Greengrass
Monday, December 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
Rigado’s Cascade IoT Gateway running Canonical’s secure operating system Ubuntu Core, has integrated with the newly released Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT Greengrass features to help give teams an easy-to-use mechanism to get Bluetooth-based data to their cloud applications.
This new functionality combines the scalability of AWS IoT Greengrass edge comput...
The AWS DeepLens has machine learning built in and you can now buy one
Monday, July 9, 2018 by Richard Harris
The Amazon DeepLens was first unveiled at re:Invent 2017, remember it's the camera device enables developers to deploy models that can identify objects it sees using popular deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow and Caffe. Amazon has just revealed that developers can now purchase the DeepLens for themselves, and that the AWS De...
Kony MobileFabric Now Offers Enhanced Support for Apps on AWS
Monday, August 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kony has announced enhanced support for applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and updates to its offerings in AWS Marketplace. The announcement includes new support for AWS Mobile and IoT offerings that make it easier and faster for mobile app developers using Kony MobileFabric to develop, build and deploy apps on the AWS Cloud.Kony MobileFabric 7 provides a...
Microsoft Releases in Alpha Version of New Open Translators to Things on GitHub
Thursday, April 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has introduced the alpha version of its new open source project Open Translators to Things (OpenT2T) on GitHub which offers an opportunity to translate common IoT schemas to specific hardware devices. The company’s says that its goal is to “enable application developers to write once, in an open and interoperable way, the exact same code to access functionalit...
AWS Launches Beta of AWS IoT Cloud Services for Connected Devices
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The new beta AWS IoT offers a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, applications can keep track of and commun...
Transfer Data Fast with the New AWS Snowball and Kinesis Firehose
Sunday, October 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon Web Services has released AWS Snowball and Amazon Kinesis Firehose both of which offer two new capabilities to help AWS users more quickly and cost-effectively transfer data of all types and sizes to the AWS Cloud. AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport appliance that can securely transfer 50 TB per appliance of data into and out of AWS. Amazon Kine...
AWS Releases Updates to Lambda Platform for Scaling High Volume Production Applications
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AWS Lambda is a zero-admin compute platform that removes the need for developers to configure, launch, or monitor Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances; and have to consider scale and fault tolerance. Developers can instead create a Lambda function (using JavaScript / Node.js), set the appropriate permissions, and connect the function to AWS resources.The platfor...
GA Release of AWS Mobile SDK Now Available
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
The AWS Mobile SDK for iOS, Android, and Fire OS has been released out of developer preview and is now generally available. The AWS Mobile SDK provides access to AWS services specifically designed to help mobile app developers with identity management & sync (Amazon Cognito), analytics (Amazon Mobile Analytics), and push notifications (Amazon SNS Mobile Push). ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Offers Mobile Developers New Services
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upped the ante in its efforts to woo mobile developers to use its services to build, deploy, and scale mobile applications. It has introduced a number of new services as part of the AWS platform.Amazon CognitoAmazon Cognito is a new service that provides user identity and data synchronization that lets developers create apps that authentica...
