Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. It can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools you are already using today. 

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for the latest Redis open source version 5.0.4. This is a bug fix release with various improvements in stability and memory management.

For the full list of improvements in Amazon ElastiCache for Redis 5.0.4 click here . Redis 5.0.4 support is available in all AWS regions.

To get started on ElastiCache for Redis cluster with engine version 5.0.4 log on to AWS Management Console .  

AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. With today’s launch, AWS AppSync now supports configuring more than one authorization type simultaneously for GraphQL APIs.

You can configure a single GraphQL API to deliver private and public data. You can also configure a single GraphQL API to deliver private data using more than one authorization type. For example, you can configure your GraphQL API to authorize some schema fields using OpenID Connect (OIDC), while authorizing other schema fields through Amazon Cognito User Pools and/or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

AWS AppSync supports configuring additional authorization types while retaining the authorization settings of your existing GraphQL APIs. To ensure that there are no behavioral changes in your existing GraphQL APIs, we have set your current authorization settings as the default. You can add additional authorization types using the AWS AppSync Console, CLI, and CloudFormation templates. We have also updated the AWS AppSync client SDKs for Android, iOS, and JavaScript and the Amplify CLI to support multiple authorization types.

To learn more, see the release blog post and the AWS AppSync web page.

You can now send IoT Analytics data set content results, which are materialized views of your IoT Analytics data, to an Amazon S3 bucket in your AWS account. This lets you easily use it with a downstream application for further processing or presentation to end-users. For example, you can automatically create a Glue Table containing a representation of your data set content results and its schema and run queries with Amazon Athena. Also, since the data set content results are saved in your Amazon S3 bucket, you can apply your own S3 permissions and manage them according to your governance policies.

Amazon DynamoDB transactions are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region. Transactions provide developers atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable (ACID) operations in DynamoDB so that they can maintain data correctness in applications more easily.

You can now add tags to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) gateway endpoints , interface endpoints (AWS PrivateLink), and endpoint services (AWS PrivateLink). A tag is a simple label consisting of a customer-defined key and an optional value that can be used search, filter, and organize your VPC endpoints and endpoint services. You can also use tags to clearly organize the charges for the resources you utilize, as presented at Using Cost Allocation Tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management user guide.

This Quick Start automatically deploys IBM InfoSphere DataStage into a new or existing virtual private cloud (VPC) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 2 hours.

The Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) command line interface (CLI) now includes a sub-command for generating the authentication token required for connecting to their Kubernetes cluster using the command line.

It is the international year of the periodic table, and I have been made aware of a periodic table which indicates the relative plenty or scarcity on and in Earth by the size of the space the element is allotted. It apparently puts into perspective the indium shortage, which come from contflict regions, and other …

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An excellent video on designing control systems when there no accurate mathematical model of the system is available, has been highlighted by wise commenter of this parish Steve Kurt. Posted by Brian Douglas on YouTube, ‘A real control system – how to start designing‘ it starts very basically, and then steadily speeds up until the …

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