AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. DataSync is an online data transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates copying data between NFS file servers, Amazon S3 buckets, and Amazon EFS file systems.

You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. 

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility now supports cluster cache management, providing a faster path to full performance if there’s a failover. With cluster cache management, you designate a specific reader DB instance in your Aurora PostgreSQL cluster as the failover target. Cluster cache management keeps the data in the designated reader’s cache synchronized with the data in the read-write instance’s cache. If a failover occurs, the designated reader is promoted to be the new read-write instance, and workloads benefit immediately from the data in its cache.

Without cluster cache management, when a read-write instance fails over to a read-only instance and that instance is promoted to be the new read-write instance, the cache in the newly promoted instance doesn’t have the data that was “hot” in the failed instance’s cache right before it failed. This leads to degraded performance while the “hot” data is read into the new instance’s cache from storage.

You can learn more about Aurora PostgreSQL and cluster cache management on the Aurora PostgreSQL documentation pages . Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. For more information, please visit the Amazon Aurora product page .

AWS CodeCommit now supports two additional merge strategies for pull requests: squash merges and three-way merges, and a conflict resolution editor in the console that allows developers to manually resolve conflicts at the time of a merge. A pull request is the primary way developers review, comment on, and merge code changes. Collaboratively reviewing code changes in pull requests helps developers maintain high code quality and better understand each other’s code. 

You can now add dynamic labels to your Amazon CloudWatch charts that provide richer context on your dashboards, helping you to more quickly identify anomalies in system health and performance. Dynamic labels provide data summaries over the time window represented in the chart and update automatically as the chart is refreshed. For example, adding the average and maximum dynamic labels for a CPU utilization metric across multiple EC2 resources can help you identify anomalies at a glance. The initial set of dynamic labels includes AVG, SUM, MIN, MAX and LAST, with more to follow.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Personalize , a machine learning service that makes it easy for developers to create individualized recommendations for users of their applications. Based on the same technology used at Amazon.com, Amazon Personalize allows developers to easily build sophisticated personalization capabilities into their applications, such as personalized product and content recommendations, tailored search results, and targeted marketing promotions.

Amazon Comprehend Medical is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (London), and Canada (Central) regions. Amazon Comprehend Medical is a natural language processing service that makes it easy to use machine learning to extract relevant medical information from unstructured text.

AWS Systems Manager, the operational hub for AWS and hybrid cloud deployments, announces the launch of OpsCenter to help you view, investigate, and resolve operational issues related to your environment from a central location. OpsCenter presents operational issues in a standardized view, along with contextually relevant data to help you with the diagnosis and remediation of them. You can associate AWS Systems Manager Automation documents for easier remediation and also specify deduplication logic to filter repetitive operational issues.

Renesas is aiming at industry with a microcontroller that combines an EtherCAT slave controller, motor control capability and a 240MHz version of its RX core – delivering a 1396 CoreMark. These attributes are being offered in the RX72M Group, which the fims is describing as “the new flagship product group for the Renesas RX family”. Applications …

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Now available from RS Components, the Minitek Pwr series from Amphenol consists of 3.0mm, 4.2mm and 5.7mm devices and includes high current-handling capability. The compact connectors include wire-to-board and wire-to-wire configurations and has been designed with fully-polarised scoop-proof housings to protect terminals from damage, and a low insertion force. The 3.0mm-pitch devices have power contacts …

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