Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose can now deliver streaming data to Amazon Redshift Serverless. With few clicks, you can more easily ingest, transform, and reliably deliver streaming data into Amazon Redshift Serverless without building and managing your own data ingestion and delivery infrastructure. Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service that automatically scales to match the throughput of your data and without ongoing administration.

Starting with Amazon VPC CNI version 1.13 , Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) allows clusters in IPv4 address space to connect with end points in IPv6 address space. This enables customers to operate services in mixed IPv4 and IPv6 environments while migrating to IPv6 only address space-based services. The native support in Amazon VPC CNI reduces the overhead of managing dual-stack cluster configurations and alleviates operational challenges in maintaining application compatibility with dual-stack networking.

Today, OpsCenter, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces simplified cross-account management of operational issues (OpsItems). In just a few clicks, customers can configure OpsCenter to centrally create, view, and manage operational issues across all accounts in their AWS Organization.

AWS Lake Formation now supports accessing Glue Data Catalog databases and tables across Regions. Previously, in order to access the Glue Data Catalog databases and tables from a different Region, you had to replicate the catalog items and/or underlying data from the source Region to the local Region. Now, with the cross-Region support in Lake Formation, you can access the Glue catalog databases and tables from any Region that Lake Formation is available. Each feature of Lake Formation, such as LF-Tags based access control, fine grained access permissions at the row and column level, data filters, and sharing to direct IAM principals across accounts are available with cross-Region table access. Lastly, you can also run queries that join tables between local Region tables and cross-Region tables.

Today, AWS Systems Manager announces auto-update support for the Amazon EC2 Windows, Linux, and Mac launch agents in Quick Setup. With this launch, customers can enable automatic upgrades with a few clicks in the console in order to get the latest bug fixes, security patches, and feature updates for their EC2 launch agents across accounts and Regions in their Organization. 

A guy with impeccable AI credentials has dampened down some of the more over-heated expectations about the technology. Yann LeCun, the French holder of a Turing Prize, said that claims that AI will threaten humans are “preposterously ridiculous“. The idea that we “turn on a super-intelligent system that is going to take over the world …

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What’s the collective noun for satellites, packed ready for launch? How about a Nest? It looks like it in this image from the recent SpaceX Transporter-8 smallsat rideshare…

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2023 datacentre capex will fall 8% y-o-y  with softness in the enterprise IT and hyperscaler markets, says Dell’Oro. “While data centre capex for the hyperscalers will decline significantly this year, we project some of the cloud service providers such as Microsoft and Google will continue to increase spending by double digits,” said Dell’Oro’scBaron Fung,  “meanwhile, …

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Durham University is working with Viasat to better understand atmospheric turbulence in free-space optical (FSO) communications. The resulting forecasting tool will be used, the organisations say, to optimise Viasat’s ground station design and support operational decision-making such as network switching between ground stations based on atmospheric conditions. Specifically – for the first phases of the …

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In Q1 the enterprise segment of the WLAN market increased 43.3% y-o-y  to reach $2.8 billion, says IDC. Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E, the newest standards in the WLAN industry, continue to drive growth in the enterprise segment of the market. Wi-Fi 6 Dependent Access Points (APs) made up 78.6% of dependent AP revenues. Meanwhile, …

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