Today Amazon Kinesis Video Streams announces new APIs and SDKs to help you extract images from your video streams. This fully-managed capability allows customers to request images via API calls or configure automatic image generation based on metadata tags in ingested video. 

Now you can use the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) CLI to enable AWS X-Ray tracing in your AWS SAM templates automatically, without manually authoring your AWS SAM templates. This makes it easier to centrally manage AWS X-Ray tracing across your Lambda functions in your serverless application.

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to simulate robotics applications at scale, is now available in the in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Support in the GovCloud Region allows U.S. government agencies and contractors to run sensitive simulation workloads in AWS RoboMaker by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Europe (London) Region. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for container environments.

AWS IoT Secure Tunneling allows customers to access devices that are deployed behind restricted firewalls at remote sites. When a tunnel is created, a pair of client access tokens (CAT) will be generated and used by the source and destination devices to connect to the Secure Tunneling service. Prior to today, a token can be stored and reused, making it susceptible to malicious use. Now single-use tokens will be revoked after a successful connection. When the connection drops, instead of saving CATs to a local device and establishing a token re-delivery method, customers can call the RotateTunnelAccessToken API to deliver a new pair of CATs to the source and destination devices to resume connection with the original device in the predefined tunnel period. Once reconnected, customers can securely access and continue troubleshooting remote devices using Secure Tunneling.

AWS Trusted Advisor adds 4 checks automatically ingested from AWS Compute Optimizer . AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor evaluates your account by using checks to identify opportunities for you to improve security and performance, reduce costs, and monitor service quotas. Today, AWS Compute Optimizer checks are available in the Business Support, Enterprise Support On-Ramp, and Enterprise Support plans. The new checks are:

I want to highlight this one: Google has announced the winners of its Flutter Puzzle Hack competition, challenging developers to slide puzzle their way Flutter code.

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Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top ten Foundries in Q4 2021:

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LEM has created a current sensor with a sigma-delta bit stream output. To be unveiled officially at PCIM in Nuremberg next week, the sensor is aimed at applications prone to noise, distortion and interference. Called HMSR DA sensor and intended for both ac and dc sensing, it offers resolution of 11 to 13bit and has …

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Analog Devices has introduced a 24bit 2Msample/s dual-channel SAR analogue to digital converter, branding it ‘Easy Drive’ for its front end – which still requires a buffer amplifier between it and the signal source Called AD4630-24, sampling on the two channel is simultaneous, claimed accuracy (INL) is 900 parts-per-billion, and the typical dynamic range is …

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