Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Region of Europe (Paris).

Amazon Inspector now supports Center of Internet Security (CIS) Benchmark assessments for operating systems in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The CIS Security Benchmarks program provides well-defined, unbiased, consensus-based industry best practices to help organizations assess and improve their security. AWS is a CIS Security Benchmarks Member company.

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M7a instances, and the memory-optimized R7a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. M7a and R7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a and R6a instances, respectively.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Amazon Keyspaces now supports provisioned capacity mode for Multi-Region Replication tables.

Kubernetes version 1.29 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.29. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using v1.29 and upgrade your existing clusters to v1.29 using the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through an infrastructure-as-code tool.

Around 2 billion voters – approximately a quarter of the world’s population – are expected to be heading to the polls this year, according to the Anchor Change Election Cycle …

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Last year was the warmest on record since 1850, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. it did so by a record-breaking margin, as 2023 was 0.15 degrees Celsius warmer …

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This is an interesting one – sentiment analysis with Node-RED. It’s a guide to building a simple sentiment analysis system using the Node-RED platform.

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The UK Space Agency is launching a £1.2 million Aqualunar Challenge to design technologies to purify the water buried beneath the lunar surface. It’s an international challenge prize, taking place …

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November semiconductor sales of $48 billion were up 5.3% on the November 2022 total of $45.6 billion and  up 2.9% on the October 2023 total of $46.6 billion, says the …

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