Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now adds support for maintenance notifications to provide users visibility into scheduled maintenance activities on their Amazon DocumentDB clusters. Users can now receive near real time notifications of scheduled maintenance activities through health events in AWS Health Dashboard (AHD) in AWS console and through emails.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports text search, making it easy to run text search queries on extensive string data using a native text index. You can now perform text searches of specific terms or phrases on large string data using $text and $search operators, assign different significance levels to the indexed fields using weights, and sort the search results based on relevance using $meta operator.

AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) now allows you to customize the resources deployed and recorded by AFT. You can now choose whether or not to deploy AFT using a virtual private cloud (VPC). You can also customize the retention periods for AWS Backup recovery points, Amazon Cloudwatch log groups, and Amazon S3 log archive buckets to meet your unique data retention needs. This release includes enhancements to AFT VPC default security group to align with AWS Foundational Security Best Practices .

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.36. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that allows customers to connect applications to data and events with GraphQL APIs. AppSync allows customers to create APIs that connect to multiple data sources like microservice APIs, relational databases, and NoSQL databases. With AppSync APIs, applications can efficiently fetch data from different sources in one request.

The AI Chip Game Part 1  recounted how Nvidia’s best customers for accelerators – Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta – were building their own chips to undercut Nvidia and get …

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Airbus U.S. Space & Defense has completed a deal with Eutelsat OneWeb to purchase its 50% share of the Airbus OneWeb Satellites (AOS) joint venture. Specifically, it will the become …

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Q4 tablet shipments  fell 17.4% y-o-y  to 36.8 million units, says IDC  – the largest decline in Q4 tablet shipments since 2016. For  2023,  tablet shipments totaled 128.5 million units, …

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Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has put $300 million into its Leading-edge Semiconductor Technology Centre (LSTC) to develop process technology for a 2nm prototype line by 2025, …

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The US has launched its  $5 billion National Semiconductor Technology Centre. The launch was announced on Friday at the White House by Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. The $5 billion …

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