Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL minor versions 14.3, 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, and 10.21. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g, M6g and R6g node types in the Europe (Paris) and Europe (Milan) regions. Customers choose Amazon ElastiCache for workloads that require blazing-fast performance with sub-millisecond latency and high throughput. Now, with Graviton2 T4g, M6g and R6g instances, customers can enjoy up to a 45% price/performance improvement over previous generation instances.

Amazon QuickSight now supports API-based allow listing of domains where QuickSight data visualizations can be embedded. With this new capability, developers can scale their embedded analytics offerings including visuals, dashboards, QuickSight Q (natural language querying), and authoring experience across different applications for their different customers quickly. All of this is done without any infrastructure setup or management, while scaling to millions of users. For further details, visit the blog and the documentation .

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Third-party data providers on AWS Data Exchange can now import Amazon S3 assets up to 100GB in size, an increase from the former limit of 10GB. The increased asset size unlocks new use cases in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Retail among other industries, because providers can now license genomics data, high volume financial data, and satellite imagery, which are often stored as assets that exceed 10GB.

AWS Lambda now provides tiered pricing for monthly Lambda function duration i.e. GB-Seconds of usage. The two additional pricing tiers provide discounts on your aggregate monthly on-demand function duration. Tiered pricing takes effect in the monthly billing cycle starting on Aug 1st, 2022.

AWS IoT Core now offers a new device provisioning console experience that enables customers a more intuitive way to select the best provisioning option for their IoT solution. You can now more easily navigate the device provisioning scenarios and follow a simple flow to create a provisioning template and configure permissions for a single or many devices. The updated user interface also gives you access to documentation, product information, and resources to assist you in choosing, creating, and managing your device provisioning flows in the same place.

BP’s  Q2 profits tripled y-o-y hitting $9.3 billion – the company’s highest quarterly profits in 14 years. Shell’s Q2 earnings hit $11.5 billion – more than double the figure from Q2 in 2021. France’s TotalEnergies and Spain’s Repsol had Q2 y-o-y profit gains of $2.2 billion and $2 billion, respectively. Exxon’s Q2 earnings went  from …

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element14 has launched the Experimenting with Gesture Sensors Design Challenge. Eight successful applicants who propose a project with the best use of gesture sensing technology will receive an evaluation kit by Maxim Integrated free of charge to experiment, test, or build a project. With gesture recognition control technology, sensors are used to read and interpret …

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Renesas has unveiled a family of 700V buck regulators that can deliver as little as 3.3V and as much as 8W from the mains. Depending on topology, which can include isolated fly-back or non-isolated buck, standby power can be below 20mW in the converters, which are numbered RAA2230xx. “The converters feature a unique constant-off-time control …

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