As a leader of web/mobile app you are constantly monitoring performance using tools like New Relic and then connecting with AWS Lambda to ensure necessary actions are taken during downtimes. These integrations require additional technical debt for configuration & setup. To make integrations easier, AWS Lambda have announced Extensions API , in preview. Today Lambda extensions are ready to be integrated with common names in monitoring like AppDynamics, Datadog, Dynatrace etc.

If you love the products recommended by Amazon, they are making the data models available via Amazon Personalize. Under the covers, it would process & examine data, identify what is meaningful, then trains & customizes personalization model based on the data. Data can be sent via S3 or streaming and then accessed via API that can be easily invoked by the application.

Amazon Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services & tools to on-premises facilities. They have enabled use of S3 on outposts so that you can store, tag, retrieve, report on and control data on the premises first. This capability is essential for industries like banking & healthcare to meet regulatory need.

The current COVID19 pandemic brings new use cases of managing healthcare data at scale for care and research. These “at home” clinical scenarios brings challenges to manage, protect and obtain patient consent for their use. To make these simpler GCP have introduced Healthcare Consent Management API that satisfy requirements of emerging privacy & consent frameworks. It provides a centralized location to manage consent policies , execute consent agreements and connect data together with relevant metadata.

The technology powering Microsoft Teams is now available for enterprises to deliver video, voice, chat & text messaging experiences. Currently in preview it brings a scalable global platform that allows communication across websites & mobile apps. Flexible APIs and SDKs would allow easy integration, which would inherently reduce the costs for communications.

The latest updated of Azure Stream Analytics brings capabilities to create window events that group data/activities arriving at the exact same time using System.Timestamp() as key. Additionally, TopOne and CollectTop allow to return records ordered by the column of your choice, without needing to be part of a window.