Before the end of the decade, the world will see the first construction megaproject with a cost estimate exceeding $1 trillion,  according to 1Build estimates. Out of  the nine projects …

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At this week’s IFA 2024  the WPC (Wireless Power Consortium) announced the next wireless power transfer standard, Ki (pronounced kee). At the consumer electronics show in Berlin, the consortium’s booth …

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Electro-hydraulic muscles are sometimes a viable alternative to electric motors in robot legs, according to researchers at Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems. This sort of electricity-to-movement transducer uses …

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Viasat is introducing Enhanced LAISR (L-band Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) – aimed at governmental organisations – for airborne, maritime and mobile land users worldwide. Using Viasat’s global L-band space …

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Q2 revenue for sales of Broadband Access equipment fell 8% y-o-y  to $4.2 billion, says Dell’Oro, although q-o-q revenue was up 4% from 1Q 2024, which saw the lowest spending …

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The advanced IC substrate market is expected to have a CAGR 24-29 of 9% to  $25.53 billion in 2029, according to Yole Group. Competition to commercialise glass core substrates is …

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A disconnect between US bureaucracy and Intel has put the main purpose of the US Chips and Science Act in jeopardy. The most important goal of the Act was to …

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Cambridge GaN power drive start-up QPT has recruited an advisor to its board: electric motor and business specialist Simon Hart, who “holds C-level roles at several technology companies”, according to …

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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment , allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 17 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 17 RC1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database.

PostgreSQL 17 includes updates to vacuuming that reduces memory usage, improves time to finish vacuuming, and shows progress of vacuuming indexes. With PostgreSQL 17, you no longer need to drop logical replication slots when performing a major version upgrade. PostgreSQL 17 continues to build on the SQL/JSON standard, adding support for `JSON_TABLE` features that can convert JSON to a standard PostgreSQL table. The `MERGE` command now supports the `RETURNING` clause, letting you further work with modified rows. PostgreSQL 17 also includes general improvements to query performance and adds more flexibility to partition management with the ability to SPLIT/MERGE partitions. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details.

Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are retained for a maximum period of 60 days and are automatically deleted after the retention period. Amazon RDS database snapshots that are created in the preview environment can only be used to create or restore database instances within the Preview Environment. You can use the PostgreSQL dump and load functionality to import or export your databases from the Preview Environment.

Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are priced as per the pricing in the US East (Ohio) Region.

CloudWatch Application Signals, which helps troubleshoot issues quickly by providing out-of-the-box dashboards that correlate telemetry across metrics, traces, and logs for your applications and their dependencies, now supports Service Level Objectives (SLOs) calculated based on the request count i.e. the fraction of good or bad requests of the total operations performed by any service. This allows for more precise tracking of how many requests met the defined SLO criteria (e.g., latency under 200ms) out of the total requests received by a service.

SLOs represent a commitment to maintain a certain level of service quality, typically expressed as percentage attainment of performance goals within a given time interval. The existing offering of period-based SLOs measures performance during each time period in an interval and aggregates proportion of good periods that meet a specified performance threshold. The release of request-based SLOs allows you to track error tolerance in terms of requests. This enables fine-grained monitoring based on customer traffic, particularly useful for applications prone to high fluctuations in request volume, where performance shortfall during period of low traffic can lead to a quick erosion of the error budget.

Request-based SLOs are available in all regions where Application Signals is generally available – 28 commercial AWS Regions except CA West (Calgary) Region. For pricing, see Amazon CloudWatch pricing .

See SLO documentation to learn more, or refer to the user guide and AWS One Observability Workshop to get started with Application Signals.