Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent job replication. With this new feature, SQL Server Agent jobs created, modified, or deleted on the primary instance will be automatically synchronized to the secondary instance in a Multi-AZ configuration.

AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports the current Puppet Enterprise LTS version 2019.8.10. Customers benefit from receiving the update automatically during the weekly system maintenance window scheduled individually by each customer.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Exec adds support for executing commands in a Windows container running on AWS Fargate. ECS Exec gives you interactive shell or single command access to a running container making it easier to debug issues, diagnose errors, collect one-off dumps and statistics, and interact with processes in the container.

AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) for Amazon MemoryDB enables you to define and use MemoryDB resources directly from your Kubernetes cluster. This lets you take advantage of MemoryDB to support your Kubernetes applications without needing to define MemoryDB resources outside of the cluster or run and manage in-memory database capabilities within the cluster. 

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 66 more Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. Newly supported instance types include the latest generation general purpose instance families from both Intel and AMD (M6i, M6a), compute optimized instance families (C6i, C6a), memory optimized instance family (R6i), and storage optimized instance families (Im4gn, Is4gen). These additions to Compute Optimizer allow customers to ensure they are always sized to an optimal EC2 instance type by delivering recommendations that ensure high performance at the lowest cost.

AWS is announcing an integration between AWS AppConfig and Jira in the Atlassian Marketplace . The integration allows feature flags from AWS AppConfig to be tracked in Atlassian’s Jira as individual issues, making it easier for teams to track the release of new capabilities of their software. AWS AppConfig is a feature of AWS Systems Manager. This integration is being announced at the Atlassian Team ’22 conference in Las Vegas.  

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action.

Today we are announcing the availability of Map and Location Search UI components for web apps built with React. Amplify Geo, launched last year, enables frontend developers to add location-aware features to their web applications using Amazon Location Service. Developers can now make use of a React component for adding modern mapping features to their React-based web application using a single line of code.

Amazon EventBridge now supports Global endpoints, a simpler and more reliable way for customers to improve the availability of their event-driven applications on AWS. Global endpoint is a new feature that makes it easier for customers to build robust and reliable applications by automatically failing over their event ingestion to a secondary region during service disruptions without the need for manual intervention. Customer can use replication to minimize the data at risk during these service disruptions.

It makes perfect sense. QuadSAT, a Danish startup that uses drones for the test and measurement of satellite antennas, has performed an antenna validation campaign as part of its work with LEO satellite operator, OneWeb.

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