With today’s launch, customers can execute custom scripts before, during, and after Amplify CLI commands (“amplify push”, “amplify api gql-compile”, and more). This allows you to extend Amplify’s best-practice defaults to meet your organization’s specific security guidelines and operational requirements. AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend web and mobile developers create cloud backends and connect them to their app for common use cases. To create a command hook, customers place their bash shell scripts into the “amplify/hooks” folder with the associated Amplify CLI command as the script file name, such as “post-push.sh” or “pre-add-function.sh”. Command hooks support bash scripts by-default but customers can extend it with their preferred scripting runtime.

Starting today, the ability to customize reverse DNS for Elastic IP addresses for Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) is available in 16 additional regions. These AWS Regions are US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo). With today’s launch, this feature is available in all commercial regions.

We are delighted to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Korean. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text and natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities to recognize the intent of the text, enabling you to build applications with lifelike conversational interactions. Now you can deliver a robust and localized conversational experience that understands Korean. You can also respond to users with natural sounding Amazon Polly Korean voices and provide a fully localized, voice experience.

Amazon EC2 now offers increased instance bandwidth from AWS region to traffic destined towards Internet Gateway, Direct Connect and between regions for the current generation of instances .

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I3en Instances are Now Available in Amazon Web Services regions in the Middle East (Bahrain), South Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan). I3en instances offer up to 60 TB of low latency NVMe SSD instance storage and up to 50% lower cost per GB over I3 instances.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is now a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant service. GWLB helps you deploy, scale, and manage third-party virtual network appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, analytics, and traffic visibility systems. As an addition to the Elastic Load Balancer family, GWLB combines a transparent network gateway (that is, a single entry and exit point for all traffic) and a load balancer that distributes traffic and scales your virtual appliances horizontally based on demand.

20 years ago this year, three companies decided to put $400 million into developing a new microprocessor. It was envisaged that the chip would be more powerful than IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer, delivering teraflops of processing power. It was aimed at broadband consumer products such as networked games, immersive virtual reality and eventually holographic or …

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Aviva, the automotive connectivity startup, has raised a $26.5 million Series A funding round led by Marvell founders Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai. The investment brings the total so far raised by Aviva to $33 million. The investment will help accelerate  product development and expand the sales and marketing for its multi-gigabit connectivity automotive ICs. …

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Digi-Key Electronics is running its annual Back2School Prize Draw sweepstakes, which gives college students a chance win prizes while using real-world tools and resources to learn about engineering. The idea is to help spark ideas for future engineers and the sweepstakes draw is open to any student with a university or college email address. Students …

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The horticultural lighting LED revenue saw an explosive growth in 2020, reaching $301 million, a 57% YoY increase, according to TrendForce. This growth is expected to maintain its momentum throughout 2021, during which the market is expected to reach US$399 million in revenue, a 33% YoY increase.   Horticultural lighting LED package suppliers include ams-OSRAM, …

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