SpaceX completed a successful IPO on Friday which valued the company at $2.1 trillion. The shares were issued at $135 and ended the day at $161. At the moment the …

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Rapidus, the Japanese initiative targetting 2nm process technology, has signed an MoU with the UK Semiconductor Centre (UKSC) covering future semiconductor manufacturing. In January 2026, the leaders of Japan and …

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Microchip Technology is announcing the release of its TimePictra 12 platform. This is a software upgrade to its synchronisation management software for critical infrastructure operators. It aims to manage advanced …

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OKW has launched a new universal bracket for mounting IP-rated electronic enclosures on poles and masts. It is suitable for poles of minimum ø30 mm or > ø70 mm and …

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Molex has expanded its AirBorn SInergy range of modular hybrid connectors. The introduction of heavy-duty, high-power contacts supports up to 25.0A power delivery within a standard module bay. According to …

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Amazon CloudWatch now natively supports OpenTelemetry metrics. You can send metrics via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) and query them using Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), with per-GB ingestion pricing and 15 months of storage included.

This allows you to consolidate custom application metrics and AWS vended metrics from more than 70 services in a single solution, queryable together in PromQL. CloudWatch exposes a Prometheus-compatible query API, so teams already using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana can use CloudWatch as a destination that fits seamlessly with their existing tools.

Available in all commercial AWS Regions except Middle East (UAE), Middle East (Bahrain), and Israel (Tel Aviv). For pricing details, see the Amazon CloudWatch pricing page . To get started, see the Amazon CloudWatch metrics documentation .

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL  now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide .

Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your MySQL databases on Aurora and RDS after the community ends support for a major version. You can run your MySQL databases on Amazon RDS with Extended Support for up to three years beyond a major version’s end of standard support date. Learn more about Extended Support in the Amazon RDS User Guide  and the Pricing FAQs .

Amazon RDS for MySQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for MySQL Pricing  for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console .

Amazon RDS for MariaDB  now supports MariaDB 12.3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment , allowing you to evaluate the latest Long-Term Support Release on Amazon RDS for MariaDB. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new MariaDB 12.3 capabilities before they become generally available.

MariaDB 12.3 includes Oracle TO_DATE() function compatibility, a SQL Standard IS JSON predicate for native JSON validation, and a basic XML data type. It adds support for cursors on prepared statements and allows UPDATE/DELETE operations to read from Common Table Expressions. The query optimizer now handles reorderable LEFT JOIN statements and ordered scans over RANGE partitions more efficiently. Please refer to the MariaDB 12.3 release notes  for more details.

Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are retained for a maximum period of 60 days and are automatically deleted after the retention period. Amazon RDS database snapshots created in the preview environment can only be used to create or restore database instances within the preview environment. For pricing information, see Amazon RDS for MariaDB pricing . For further information, see Working with the Database Preview Environment .

 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB  now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.

You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments  for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MariaDB instances. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments, in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB makes it straightforward to set up, operate, and scale MariaDB deployments in the cloud. Learn more about pricing details and regional availability at Amazon RDS for MariaDB . Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console .

Today, Amazon Web Services announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Centralization, which enables you to replicate CloudWatch metrics cross-account and cross-region into a single destination account.

Enterprise teams with complex multi-account, multi-region deployments often need a unified view of their operational health across their entire infrastructure. CloudWatch metrics centralization solves this by letting you define centralization rules through AWS Organizations that automatically replicate metrics from source accounts and regions into a centralized destination account. Central teams gain full ownership of the data for querying, alarming, compliance, and governance. Centralized metrics work with both CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry metrics, and are fully compatible with Metrics Insights, dashboards, alarms, Metric Math, anomaly detection, Metric Streams, and PromQL.

CloudWatch Metrics Centralization is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo).

To learn more, see CloudWatch Metrics Centralization in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.