It was a bit startling to see Current – the once overarching energy services company – announce price increases on LED luminaires and “traditional lighting products.” It felt like GE Lighting all over again.

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces the addition of a second Edge location in New Delhi, India. Adding this location doubles CloudFront’s capacity in the area for both processing viewer requests and caching content locally. For a full list of CloudFront’s global network, see the CloudFront Details webpage.

Introducing the AWS Cloud Management Tools (CMT) Competency Program to help customers identify AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners that accelerate their AWS adoption by delivering operations and governance best practices.

IT organizations balance delivering the benefits of a cloud strategy; agility, scale, resiliency and cost savings, while maintaining governance, compliance and efficient use of resources. AWS Cloud Management Tools Partners have proven customer success in delivering both. Their customers can confidently manage AWS environments using a ‘guardrails’ approach while monitoring for any non-compliant activities that may occur. They specialize in providing solutions in the following areas: Administration & Provisioning, Cloud Governance and Resource & Cost Optimization. 

See our AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency Partners. 

AWS CodeBuild is now available to customers in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD 

The new AWS Serverless Navigate enables APN Partners to gain a deeper understanding of the AWS Serverless Platform, including AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Step Functions and Amazon Cognito.

Education content for Serverless covers topics such as how the services work together, best practices, how to identify potential workloads and how to correctly position Serverless during technical and selling motions with your customers.

Learn more about the AWS Serverless Navigate >>

You can now use AWS Config to record configuration changes to AWS CodePipeline , a continuous integration and continuous delivery service. With AWS Config, you can track changes to the pipeline configuration, such as the location of the artifacts, stages, actions included in a stage, and input and output artifacts. AWS Config maintains this configuration change history and you can access it through the console or APIs. Maintaining a change history can help you address audit and compliance requirements.

This day, 60 years ago, a young chap presented his invention to his managers. This is what he presented: A thing doesn’t have to look dramatic to change the future of the world.

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Today, for all the Apple-philes out there, it’s the year’s biggest day with the annual i-Fest of goodies from the Cupertino cornucopia. By tonight we’ll all know what they are. For the time being, this, according to Statista, is what the fans want to see:  

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Imec.xpand, Imec’s early-stage VC fund,  has closed its first fund at €117 million in committed capital. The amount raised exceeds the initial target of EUR 100 million and positions imec.xpand as a major player in the deep tech venture capital ecosystem. Imec.xpand is an early stage and growth fund with a approach to turn hardware …

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Renesas Electronics has seen OpenSynergy’s COQOS hypervisor run Android P as a guest OS on its R-Car H3 automotive system-on-chip (SoC) device. The hypervisor makes it possible to execute both the instrument cluster functionality, including safety-relevant display elements based on Linux, and the Android-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) on a single R-Car H3 SoC chip.  The …

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