With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you now have the option to filter the specific HLS renditions stored in your S3 bucket as well as control the resolution and pixel count of thumbnail jpeg files while using the auto-record to S3 feature. These controls allow customers to control the amount of data stored while recording to optimize storage costs. Additionally, customers can reduce the thumbnail generation interval down to one second (previously 5 second limit) to have lower latency thumbnails for discovery or post processing use cases. These enhancements apply to Amazon IVS Standard and Advanced channel types without additional cost.

Customers running applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate can now leverage Seekable OCI (SOCI), a technology open sourced by AWS that helps applications deploy and scale out faster by enabling the containers to start without waiting for the entire container image to be downloaded. 

Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers ML-powered, real-time recommended information to help chat agents quickly solve customer needs. Previously only available for agents responding to calls, Wisdom’s machine learning models help detect customer issues and recommend knowledge articles to agents during chat sessions. By proactively delivering agents the information they need, Wisdom helps improve agent productivity and caller satisfaction. Amazon Connect Wisdom is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS regions. To learn more about Amazon Connect Wisdom, please visit the Amazon Connect Wisdom website or see the help documentation .

We are happy to announce the general availability of the Lambda Annotations Framework for .NET. This new programming model makes the experience of writing Lambda functions in C# feel more natural for .NET developers by using C# source generator technology.

AWS Lambda event source mappings and Amazon EventBridge Pipes sources now support additional filtering capabilities including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix filtering), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case), and to have a single rule match if any conditions across multiple separate fields are true (OR matching). We’re also increasing the bounds supported for numeric values to -5e9 to 5e9 from -1e9 to 1e9. With these new enhanced capabilities, you can now write complex rules that provide additional filtering options when building event-driven applications.

Starting today, Llama 2 foundation models from Meta are available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart , a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 2 foundation models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK.

India’s having a few problems at the moment, every chip venture it initiates falls apart. The government is dead keen to get something going, and is offering billions in subsidies. This looks like an opportunity for Yours Truly, Ed confides to his diary. I  get on the blower to my old schoolmate the Maharajah of …

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Holiday travel is here again but most people are finding it’s more expensive this year. This may help. Thanks to DealsDaddy, which analysed the latest travel data published by the Office for National Statistics,  the countries which cost Brits the least are:

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Check out these glasses from BMW Motorrad serving as a heads-up display for motorcyclists, the ConnectedRide Smartglasses.

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There’s room in space – Teledyne e2v Space Imaging, which is based in Chelmsford, is launching a recruitment drive, with interest in the UK commercial space sector continuing to grow. Applications for the specialist CMOS and CCD imaging sensors designed by the company include data collection for Earth Observation, space telescopes for exploration of our …

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