Microservice Extractor now helps customers to port Windows-dependent, .NET Framework-based applications to cross-platform .NET to run on Linux operating systems. With this integrated porting capability, developers use Microservice Extractor to break down a large .NET Framework-based application with hundreds of projects and 10k+ classes into manageable groups based on the portability of code modules at project, name space, API, or class levels. Customers can extract, port and deploy one group at a time, and the rest of the code in the monolith can use ported code through the network. This iterative modernization approach not only cuts the time in half to transition a large business application from Windows to Linux, but it also helps organizations re-architect application for the cloud at the same time.

The Amazon Time Sync Service now gives you a way to synchronize time within microseconds of UTC on Amazon EC2 instances.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers the option to upgrade your MySQL 5.7 snapshots (Minor versions 16 to 43) to MySQL 8.0 (Minor versions 28, 32, 33, 34) using the RDS Console and the ModifyDBSnapshot API or CLI command.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports additional message filtering capabilities, including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix matching), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case matching), and to have a single filter match if any conditions across multiple separate message properties are true (OR matching). You can leverage these new filtering operators to further simplify your messaging architecture by offloading additional message filtering logic from subscribers, as well as message routing logic from publishers.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce automatic language identification support for multi-lingual streams. If you operate in a country with multiple official languages or across multiple regions, your audio streams can contain different languages and switch between languages. For such use cases, you can enable multi-language identification, which identifies all languages spoken in your stream and creates transcript using each identified language. This means that if speakers change languages mid-conversation, or if each participant is speaking a different language, your transcription output detects and transcribes each language correctly.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce the ability for customers to use up to two stats commands in a Log Insights query. By increasing the number of stats commands to two in a single query, customers can now use the second stats command to perform aggregations on the results of the first stats operation. For example, customers can aggregate their log traffic over 10-minute intervals using a stats command, and then calculate the maximum traffic across the 10-minute intervals using another stats command in the same query. 

AWS IoT Device Management expands the capability of Fleet Indexing to support indexing and querying an IoT device’s last reported location. AWS IoT Device Management is a fully managed cloud service that you can use to remotely monitor and manage your IoT devices at scale. With the Fleet Indexing feature, you can easily query and group devices based on any combination of device attribute, state, and connectivity data stored across various AWS IoT data sources . With this update, you can use geoqueries to narrow your search and retrieve devices in desired geographic boundaries for more targeted insights, such as detecting location specific device connectivity issues.These insights can then further enable you to take targeted device management actions.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports an enhanced version of Apache Kafka 3.6.0 that offers generally available Tiered Storage. Apache Kafka’s version 3.6.0 includes several bug fixes and new features, including early access for Tiered Storage. This enhanced version supports production-ready Tiered Storage, similar to previously launched Amazon MSK version 2.8.2, so customers can use it for mission-critical workloads. Tiered Storage makes storage management of your MSK Provisioned clusters easier by offering an elastically scalable and virtually unlimited remote storage tier in addition to the high-performance local storage tier. It also makes it more cost effective to store data for longer durations in Apache Kafka clusters. Learn more about Tiered Storage in Amazon MSK Developer Guide .

This is the CurveQuad, the mini quadruped robot based on origami. The centimeter-scale device uses curved-crease origami to self-fold, unfold, crawl and steer. This is done using a single motor.

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Amazon’s  Echo smart speaker dominates the U.S. market, according to  a survey by Statista Consumer Insights. According to the survey, approximately two thirds of smart speaker owners called at least …

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