MinerEye, the AI-powered data governance specialist, has been awarded an SME Instrument Grant from the EC worth $2.5 million. The Grant organization selected MinerEye’s Data Tracker to provide EU companies with a solution to ensure secure and compliant cloud adoption which is currently lacking in the market today. According to the Grant organization, “The solution is …

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Small Robot Company, the Shropshire  agritech start-up, has reached  its Crowdcube equity crowdfunding funding target of £500,000 within minutes of its launch. The campaign is continuing to gather momentum, and the company is now working to reach its stretch targets. The company’s successful start to its campaign was was overwhelmingly due to backing from the …

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  A lot of people have wondered how IBM, with all its technological excelkence, could have let AWS wipe the floor with them in cloud services. However a famous IBM CEO noticed a similar lack of capability in what would have been expected to be an IBM proficiency. “When I’d arrived at IBM, I wasn’t …

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ST launching an “Open Innovation Challenge” for startups (“Challenge”) during the upcoming CES 2019. The effort, based on ST’s product portfolio including the STM32 microcontroller platform, is aimed to promote ST technology and solutions to founders and developers of French Tech startups in France and overseas. In addition, the Challenge offers development and promotional expertise …

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Today, Amazon GameLift released an updated server SDK that is compatible with the latest versions of Unity and Unreal game engines, along with Visual Studio 15 2017.

The Amazon GameLift server SDK version 3.3.0 is now compatible with Unity 2018 and Unreal 4.21 and continues to support earlier versions. You can now also integrate Amazon GameLift into games using Visual Studio 15 2017.

Learn more about the update and how to get started in the release notes .

Now, the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) console supports five new languages, including German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Traditional Chinese. Customers who prefer to interact with the IAM console in these languages can do so using the language selector in the IAM console footer.  

You can now tag your Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) repositories with custom metadata. This makes it easier for you to organize, manage, search, and allocate costs. 

AWS Client VPN is a new managed service that provides you with the ability to securely access your AWS and on-premises networks from anywhere, using OpenVPN-based clients.

We are pleased to announce that Support Center is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, allowing access with GovCloud account credentials. Support Center is the console through which AWS customers are able to create and view support cases and gain access to AWS Support knowledge articles and videos.

Previously, access to Support Center was only available by making use of standard AWS root user credentials. With this launch, GovCloud customers can now make use of their GovCloud credentials to access Support Center to create and view support cases. Access to Support Center in the standard AWS Management Console will still be available, but will require standard AWS root user credentials to create and view support cases.

To get started, visit the Support Center console in AWS GovCloud (US). To learn more about AWS Support in AWS GovCloud (US), visit the Support product FAQs.

Starting today, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) for EBS Snapshots is available in the EU (Paris) region. DLM provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your backups.