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Today, AWS announced Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a new managed offering for AWS customers to run single-instance open source InfluxDB natively within the AWS console. This partnership represents a significant multi-year commitment by AWS to combine its global reach and accessibility with our industry-leading time series database, InfluxDB. AWS adding InfluxDB as a preferred time series database reflects the demand from AWS customers for InfluxDB and evidence of the time series market acceleration.

What might you accomplish if you could easily search your data lakes without paying to move the data first? The most likely outcome is that you address a critical security incident quicker than ever, save your organization millions of dollars, get a promotion, and then go down in history as the best-looking, most talented analyst to have searched a storage bucket.

In an era where cloud computing has become the backbone of global business operations, its impact on the environment cannot be overlooked. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, data centers’ energy consumption and carbon footprint have surged, highlighting a critical need for sustainable practices. One often underappreciated lever for environmental stewardship within this digital infrastructure is effective cloud cost management.

SharePoint, a product of Microsoft’s suite of office tools, has revolutionized the way organizations collaborate and manage documents. At its core, SharePoint is designed to facilitate the seamless sharing of information, both within an organization and with external partners. The ability to share documents externally is particularly valuable in today’s global business environment, where collaboration with vendors, clients, and contractors across geographical boundaries is commonplace.

Standardized frameworks play a fundamental role in leveling the playing field and setting the standard within the tech industry, ensuring that everyone has access to the same tools and practices. These frameworks promote best practices and foster innovation and collaboration across different sectors. One example of such a framework is OpenTelemetry, a project that has rapidly gained traction and continued to flourish as an open-source initiative under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).