Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.2.37 , 10.3.28 , 10.4.18 , and 10.5.9 . We recommend that customers upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. Amazon RDS customers can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade their databases to the latest minor version during scheduled maintenance windows. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide .

AWS now supports three additional Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones: General Purpose SSD (gp3), Throughput Optimized HDD (st1), and Cold HDD (sc1) volumes. With this expansion, you can now use gp3, st1, and sc1 volume types in addition to your existing gp2 and io1 volumes in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones.

AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports defining schemas in JSON Schema format in addition to Apache Avro, allowing customers who choose JSON Schema as the format for their streaming data to centrally control the evolution of data streams and avoid having to manage their own registries. Through Apache-licensed serializers and deserializers, Glue Schema Registry integrates with Java applications developed for Apache Kafka/Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Apache Flink/Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink, and AWS Lambda.

Amplify CLI now supports storing environment variables and secrets to be used in AWS Lambda functions to help separate environment-specific configurations from business logic. The AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend developers create app backends in the cloud that often include business logic powered by AWS Lambda functions. Customers use environment variables to store environment-specific values, such as API endpoints, and secrets to securely store sensitive information, such as API keys.

AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads.

AWS Glue DataBrew now supports the ability to write datasets created from jobs that run your data preparation recipes directly to the AWS Glue Data Catalog. You can choose to store datasets in Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon RDS (Aurora, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) tables in the Data Catalog.

With this launch, AWS Amplify now supports conditional backend builds, automatic build-time aws-exports.js generation, and a simpler console workflow to re-use backends across multiple frontend branches. AWS Amplify’s continuous deployment service offers frontend developers the fastest way to build and deploy full-stack apps (both the frontend and backend) on every code commit.

We are excited to announce that Kendra Enterprise Edition is now offered in smaller more granular units to enable smaller workloads. The base Kendra Enterprise Edition (KEE) now starts at $1.40/h ($1,008/mo), offering the same functionality and availability at a smaller scale and cost. The base KEE now supports up to 100,000 documents and 8,000 searches per day, with adaptive bursting capability to better handle unpredictable query spikes. Similarly, the Virtual Storage Capacity units now offer scaling in increments of 100,000 documents (up to 30GB) per unit at $0.7/h. Our Virtual Query Units offer scaling increments of 8,000 queries per day at $0.7/h.

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The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has completed  a collaborative project to develop low-cost Battery-on-Circuit technology for printed smart labels used to track assets. Dubbed POETICS, the project could help lower production costs and drive industrial growth within the printed electronics industry. Smart labels by London-based SME Reelables attach to objects like a sticker and can …

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