Native support for open source SQLAlchemy (sqlalchemy-redshift) and Apache Airflow frameworks are now available for Amazon Redshift. The updated Amazon Redshift dialect for SQLAlchemy supports the Amazon Redshift open source Python driver . With this release you can use single sign-on with your Identity Provider (IdP) to connect to Redshift clusters and avoid credential management pains. You can also use new Amazon Redshift features such as using TIMESTAMPTZ and TIMETZ datatypes when you migrate to the latest Redshift dialect for SQL Alchemy and Apache Airflow. These features are available in sqlalchemy-redshift version 0.8.6 and later.
Amazon Corretto 17 Support Roadmap Announced
On September 16th we announced GA of Corretto 17. Today, we are pleased to announce that we will be providing Long-Term Support (LTS) for Corretto 17 until September 2028. We will also be moving to a new 2-year cadence for Corretto LTS releases, along with the rest of the OpenJDK community, as of this release. Please read our Corretto 17 Announcement post on the AWS Open Source blog for more details. Corretto 17 is available from our downloads page .
Amazon DevOps Guru increases coverage of Amazon EKS metrics and adds metric view by cluster
Amazon DevOps Guru now supports additional metrics at the node and pod-level for clusters managed by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
AWS Secrets Manager increases secrets limit to 500K per account
AWS Secrets Manager now supports a limit of up to 500,000 secrets per account per region, up from 40,000 secrets in the past. This simplifies secrets management for software as a service (SaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS) applications that rely on unique secrets for large numbers of end customers.
Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports exporting database logs to Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts can now export database logs to Amazon CloudWatch. You can now monitor all of your Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts database instances from the same single pane of glass as your Amazon RDS database instances in our AWS Regions.
Amazon Pinpoint launches in-app messaging as a new communications channel
In-app messaging enables customers to display targeted messages in mobile or web applications, and provide a personalized user experience. When an end user is engaged with a mobile or web application, customers can use in-app messaging to show relevant content to drive high-value user actions such as: repeat purchases, key content promotion, and user onboarding. After initial implementation these messages can be created and launched through the Pinpoint console, without the need to make code changes.
Amazon CloudFront now supports configurable CORS, security, and custom HTTP response headers
Today, Amazon CloudFront is launching support for response headers policies. You can now add cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), security, and custom headers to HTTP responses returned by your CloudFront distributions. You no longer need to configure your origins or use custom Lambda@Edge or CloudFront functions to insert these headers.
Xometry, The Best Way To Source Parts
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Tesla Hits A Trillion
Tesla has joined an exclusive club – companies with a market cap of $1 trillion. While the other trillionaire companies are in the top 25 companies for revenue, Tesla is the 196th company for revenue. Which suggests that Tesla shareholders think revenues will be increasing substantially and soon.
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UK Nuclear Power Plant Has No Radiation Hazards
THE absence of radiation hazards is one of the most reassuring features of a report covering four years of operational experience at the Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 4th 1961 about the UK’s first nuclear-powered power station which was opened in 1956. …
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