New – FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan for Up to 10 Years

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedNew – FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan for Up to 10 Years Last AWS re:Invent 2020, we announced FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) that offers a more stable foundation than standard releases, as manufacturers deploy and later update devices in the field. FreeRTOS is an open source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers that makes small,…

Announcing Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAnnouncing Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M1 Mac instances for macOS are available in preview. Built on Apple silicon Mac mini computers and powered by AWS Nitro System, EC2 M1 Mac instances deliver up to 60% better price performance over x86-based EC2 Mac instances for…

How to automate AWS Managed Microsoft AD scaling based on utilization metrics

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow to automate AWS Managed Microsoft AD scaling based on utilization metrics AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD), provides a fully managed service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD) in the AWS cloud. When you create your directory, AWS deploys two domain controllers in separate Availability Zones that are exclusively…