Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose (Firehose) enables customers to capture, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Redshift, OpenSearch, Splunk, and 10+ other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, customers can now use Firehose to deliver streams to their Splunk cluster configured with either an Application Load Balancer (ALB) or a Classic Load Balancer (CLB). 

Amazon ElastiCache now supports additional sizes of the Graviton3-based network-optimized C7gn node type. ElastiCache C7gn nodes feature the new 5th generation AWS Nitro Cards and enable you to achieve the highest network bandwidth across ElastiCache node families for network-intensive workloads. With this launch, ElastiCache C7gn nodes are available in 7 different node sizes (large to 16xlarge) for increased scalability. ElastiCache C7gn nodes offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth.

Starting today, you can enable Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall to filter DNS traffic based on the query type (QTYPE) contained in the question section of the DNS query format.

Amazon Location Service has updated the Maps service to include a richer set of places, such as shops, services, restaurants, attractions, and other points of interest, in one of our map styles. The updated Esri Navigation style now provides developers the option to display a detailed map with global places content for reference or navigation purpose.

Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver high-quality voice experiences in Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Amazon Connect automatically optimizes audio by redirecting media from your agent’s local desktop to Connect, simplifying the agent experience and improving audio quality by reducing network hops. Agents can simply log into their Citrix remote desktop application (e.g., Citrix Workspaces) and start accepting calls using your custom agent user interface (i.e., custom Contact Control Panel) using APIs in the Amazon Connect open source JavaScript libraries .

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can create their own Prefix Lists in Canada West (Calgary) Region.

Starting today, Amazon Route 53 supports geoproximity routing as an additional routing policy for DNS records in public and private hosted zones. Geoproximity routing improves application responsiveness for your end users and helps organizations apply data residency preferences by routing traffic to the geographically nearest resource. With this release, you can add geoproximity routing to your DNS records via the Route 53 Console, API, SDK, and CLI. 

22-23 percent of maritime-traded goods pass through the Red Sea, more specifically its chokepoints Bab-el-Mandeb and the Suez Canal. Other estimates even put the share of seaborne cargo passing through …

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Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top ten foundries in Q3:

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NXP Semiconductors has announced an extension to its 28nm RF cmos radar one-chip SoC family at CES in Las Vegas. The SAF86xx is the successor to the SAF8500 which is …

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