Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-four. 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6i and R6i instances are available in AWS Region Middle East (UAE). These instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.

Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 4 new data connectors for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The new data connectors enable you to transfer your data from Adobe Analytics, Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge, Coupa, and Google BigQuery, providing connectivity to business planning solutions. These Amazon AppFlow integrations make it easier for you to enrich or hydrate your data lakes, gain actionable insights, and streamline analysis and reporting.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion in Nigeria by launching a new edge location in Lagos. Customers in Nigeria can expect up to 20% improvement in latency, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront , a highly distributed and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and live and on-demand video with low latency and high performance.

Amazon Location Service now supports geofence metadata, allowing customers to associate up to three types of additional information (metadata) to a virtual perimeter of a real-world geographical area known as a geofence. With metadata, developers can enrich their applications with properties about each geofence, such as building floor, area designation, route ID, etc., to address use cases such as finding a different floor inside the same geographic boundary.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.13, 10.5.20, 10.4.29, and 10.3.39. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports physical data migration via Oracle Recovery Manager cross-platform Transportable Tablespaces (RMAN XTTS). As of today, you can migrate sets of tablespaces to RDS for Oracle using Oracle RMAN XTTS to simplify movement of large amounts of data and reduce application downtime for a physical data migration.

The lawyer who used an AI programme to draw up his case revealed the fragility of bots and their dependence on human programming. No programmer told the AI bot used by the lawyer that the legal cases cited in a lawsuit needed to be genuine cases. In the absence of any such programming the bot …

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I was unwittingly amazed yesterday when I came across a video about how Clupet piston rings are made (and learned the word ‘Clupet’ at the same time). Unlike a car piston ring which is a single ring with a small gap, a Clupet ring has two turns (see photo from the Peter’s Railway YouTube video, …

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There was once a tech pioneer who gave this advice to the young: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And …

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