You can now encrypt AWS X-Ray data with your own keys that you manage through AWS Key Management Service (KMS).

Tridonic adds IoT-Ready Alliance support in new LED driver, and a new dual-channel model, while Universal Lighting Technologies adds power for IoT sensors and controllers.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. The Text-to-Speech API is now an AWS HIPAA Eligible Service

You can now use AWS Glue in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS region.

Canadian company demonstrates another innovation on the industry’s slow road to flexible, transformative lighting materials.

In today’s LED business news roundup, Vital Vio has won another patent for its continuous disinfection technology while Lutron has acquired Ketra and Philips Lighting has lost a patent claim to WAC Lighting.

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam is here. This new exam allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform.

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But the deal with GE’s Current could also put chips and sensors outside the LED lighting infrastructure, in yet another sign that smart buildings won’t always be driven by luminaires.