Amazon MQ now provides support for ActiveMQ 5.16.4. This update to ActiveMQ contains several fixes and enhancements compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.16.3
Amazon Chime SDK achieves FedRAMP High authorization
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. The Amazon Chime SDK has achieved FedRAMP High authorization for AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. U.S. government agencies and contractors can now use Amazon Chime SDK to build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High authorization.
Amazon Kendra releases Box Connector to enable search on documents in Box Enterprise repository
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Box connector to index and search documents from Box.
Amazon Macie adds support for discovering more types of sensitive data
Three new managed data identifiers have been added to Amazon Macie to expand its capabilities for discovering and identifying the locations of HTTP Basic Authentication Headers, HTTP Cookies, and JSON Web Tokens present in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Knowing if and where these types of data are present in your S3 storage helps you to better plan the data security, governance, and privacy needs of your organization.
EKS add-ons support for the OpenTelemetry Operator is now generally available
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using the Amazon EKS console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and EKS API to install and manage the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Operator. This launch enables a simplified experience for instrumenting your applications running on Amazon EKS to send metrics and traces to multiple monitoring services including AWS X-Ray, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and Amazon CloudWatch.
Amazon Neptune now offers a free trial
You can now try Amazon Neptune for free with a 1-month free trial. First-time Neptune customers can get started with Neptune for free for 30 days, using up to 750 hours of the T3.medium instance, 10 million I/O requests, 1 GB of storage, and 1 GB of backup storage.
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports live sources in Channel Assembly
You can now schedule live content into a linear channel created using Channel Assembly with AWS Elemental MediaTailor. You could already re-use transcoded and packaged HLS and DASH streams from your existing video on demand (VOD) catalogs and now you can use live streams from an origin such as AWS Elemental MediaPackage as scheduled sources for a linear channel.
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 powers Switch Lite handheld
How cool is this? An excellent RetroPie-based enclosure, in a Switch Lite form factor, built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. The Raspberry Pi team take up the story of the Gadget Master “StonedEdge”.
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Fossil Fuels
Brits are less keen to phase out fossil fuels than Chinese, Brazilians, South Africans and 32 other nationalities, concludes a survey of 22,000 people in over 30 countries by Ipsos for the World Economic Forum. British tolerance for oil, coal and gas is shared by the Americans and the Russians.
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Toshiba’s Scourge
The last thing Toshiba needs is the imposition of a $16 billion debt and a ruthless cost-cutting and job loss programme. But this is what Toshiba is likely to get if private equity fund Bain buys the company – judging by KKR’s cock-up in buying the auto parts manufacturers Magneti Marelli and Calsonic Kansei. KKR …
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