Today, AWS Amplify announces a new “amplify add custom” command to add any of the 175+ AWS services to an Amplify-created backend using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or AWS CloudFormation. The AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend developers create app backends in the cloud. The new ability to add custom resources enables developers to add additional resources beyond Amplify’s built-in use cases with a single command.

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights  now supports observability for SAP HANA databases so you can troubleshoot and resolve problems impacting your SAP HANA-based workloads more easily.

You can now launch RabbitMQ 3.8.23 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to RabbitMQ contains several fixes and enhancements compared to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.22.

Amazon Athena’s redesigned console is now generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions where Athena is available. The new and improved console brings a modern, more personalized experience to all of the features you enjoy in the current console and includes several new features which make analyzing data with Athena more powerful and productive.

AWS Snow Family now supports external Network Time Protocol (NTP) server configuration on Snowball Edge and Snowcone devices. By providing external NTP support, customers are able to synchronize device time with the NTP servers they provide.

The FindMatches ML transform in AWS Glue now allows you to match newly arrived data against existing matched datasets. The FindMatches transform allows you to identify duplicate or matching records in your dataset, even when the records do not have a common unique identifier and no fields match exactly. It makes it faster and easier to clean and deduplicate data sets.

Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based feature that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Amazon Rekognition provides a detailed taxonomy across 35 sub-categories and 10 distinct top-level moderation categories . Starting today, Amazon Rekognition content moderation comes with an improved model for image moderation that significantly reduces false positive rates across all of the moderation categories, particularly ‘explicit nudity’, without reduction in detection rates for truly unsafe content. Lower false positive rates imply lower volumes of flagged images to be reviewed further, leading to a better experience for human moderators and more cost savings.

Set against Tesla’s trillion dollar market cap, Europe’s car makers look like paupers with Germany’s top four companies mustering a collective third of the Tesla valuation. Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler make up the top 3 of highest valued car manufacturers in Europe, and rank third, tenth and fifth worldwide, respectively. According to the International Organization of …

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I was pondering with a friend last night, do we need new nuclear. And the answer seems to be yes, unless folk can adapt their consumption around the wind, sun and tides – which is possible, but the fact many people can’t be bothered to even spend five minutes sorting their recycling suggests that some …

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CONTRACTS worth £100,000 for telecommunications test gear from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe to be used on the ‘Ace High’ project have been awarded to Marconi Instruments Ltd. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 28th 1961. The story continues: They include quantities of  “white noise” test sets, signal …

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