Amazon Connect now has support for two new number types. Universal international freephone numbers (UIFN) allows customers to have a single number that’s free to call for your consumers in 64 countries globally. The addition of UIFN extends the number of inbound countries Amazon Connect can now support to 107. Amazon Connect has also added a second new number type to support the shared cost number type(0860/0861) commonly used by businesses in South Africa.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports eight new JDBC connectors for Salesforce, Databricks, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Aurora. Additionally, importing data from Snowflake without a storage intermediary and OAuth 2.0 connectivity for Salesforce and Snowflake are now supported, enabling customers to seamlessly import data from a variety of sources. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that empowers business analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions without ML expertise. 

Starting today, Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server makes it simple to stop and start your database instances. This lets you save costs by stopping a database instance when it does not need to be running, such as when it is used for development or test purposes. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and includes the ability to bring your own licensed SQL Server media.

Customers can now continuously stream inference responses back to the client when using SageMaker real-time inference to help you build interactive experiences for various generative AI applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and music generators.

You can now use Amazon Macie to discover and help protect sensitive data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports concurrent processing and setting configurable page sizes for data transfers from SAP applications to AWS services.

Customers in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) announces Amazon RDS Extended Support for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS database instances running MySQL 5.7, PostgreSQL 11, and higher major versions beyond the community end of life. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. Extended Support is available for Aurora MySQL-compatible edition, Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition, RDS for MySQL and RDS for PostgreSQL.

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…

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I do this occasionally – let’s take a look at the most popular Gadget Master posts in the last month. It was peak Silly Season, so were any particularly silly?

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