Starting today, you can specify a database parameter group when you restore an Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora database from a snapshot or restore a database to a specific point in in time. Previously, restoring a database used the default parameter group and you had to wait until the restore was finished before changing it to the desired configuration.

Amazon WorkMail now provides real-time diagnostic checks for configuring custom domains, making using your own domain with Amazon WorkMail even easier. Customers can already use their own domain for their WorkMail organization. To do so, you need to configure your DNS records with your DNS hosting provider, which can be difficult to do and is sometimes error prone. Now, Amazon WorkMail lets you verify your DNS settings directly from the Amazon WorkMail console. If the DNS settings are incorrect, Amazon WorkMail will prompt you with the information you need to correct the errors.

In addition, we are also providing deeper, automated checks for Autodiscover configuration, so administrators can verify that their endpoint is working correctly before asking their users to configure their email clients. This immediate feedback can save customers hours of debugging email domain issues due to typos, missing records, and differences between DNS hosting providers.

These troubleshooting features are available today for Amazon WorkMail domains hosted by any provider and available in all AWS Regions where Amazon WorkMail is offered. To learn more about Amazon WorkMail, or to start your trial, please visit Amazon WorkMail.

You can now restrict access to specific AWS Glue Data Catalog objects with resource-based policies and resource-level permissions. You can set up a resource-based policy on your AWS Glue Data Catalog to give AWS Identify and Access Management (IAM) users and roles granular access to metadata definitions of databases , tables , connections , and user-defined functions . You can also restrict access to specific objects in the AWS Glue Data Catalog using resource-level permissions in identity-based policies (IAM policies).

At Mike’s request, here are some pics of the Pirates’ Day fiesta:

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The last time there was a national assault on the semiconductor industry it was in the 1980s when Japan flooded the market with low-priced, high quality, DRAM. Now the assault is more subtle and coming from China, Korea and Taiwan. China has already got access to Arm’s IP thanks to Softbank’s sale of half Arm’s …

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Farnell element.14 has begun to ship 65,000 micro:bit  computers to schools in Denmark as part of an order from Boarding on behalf of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. The three-year ‘ultra:bit’ programme, will use the micro:bit in the classroom to help transform Danish Year 4 students from passive technology consumers to digital pioneers. “Programmes like this …

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Reuters have come up with a list of the ten most innovative universities. Eight of them are American. Stanford MIT Harvard Pennsylvania Washington Texas System Leuven Imperial Carolina Chapel Hill Vanderbilt      

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A date for your diary, for a webinar: Electronics Weekly has joined forces with Goepel Electronics to discuss the structural and functional testing of sensors.

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES has added nine new partners to its  RFwave Partner Program, including Akronic, Ask Radio, Catena, University of Waterloo Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS), Giga Solution, Helic, Incize, Mentor Graphics and Xpeedic Technology. They join current RFwave Program members including asicNorth, Cadence, CoreHW, CWS, Keysight Technologies, Spectral Design, and WEASIC. The new …

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Check out some boards that bring LoRa technology into play, for the Raspberry Pi, Arduino and micro:bit, and such like single board computers. For example, there is a IoT LoRa Gateway HAT…

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