Today, we are excited to announce a simplified console experience for creating Amazon EMR Studio. With the new experience, with just a few clicks, you can get started with interactive and batch workloads with default settings. The default experience also creates an EMR Serverless application ready to serve interactive workloads. Additionally, with improved start times, you can now launch your EMR Studio Workspaces in seconds to perform interactive analysis in notebooks.

You can now use AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) to help issue ISO/IEC 18013-5:2021 international standard mobile driver’s license (mDL) certificates. mDLs are digital representations of the information contained in a physical driver’s license or non-driver identification card. Organizations are working together to use mDLs across various situations, ranging from validating identity during airplane boarding to sharing information for age-restricted activities. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports multi-source replication, which allows you to configure multiple RDS for MySQL database instances as sources for a single RDS for MySQL target database instance. Multi-source replication on RDS for MySQL enables you to merge multiple shards into a single target, or consolidate data in one RDS for MySQL instance for analytics, or long-term backups.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in US East (Ohio) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

On Jan 16, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 21.0.2, 17.0.10, 11.0.22, 8u402 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (London) Regions. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

Considering buying a digital camera? How about Sphere Entertainment’s Big Sky camera system? STMicroelectronics makes the 316Mpixel 18K image sensor at the heart of the device…

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In 2023, approximately €2.1 billion in fines were imposed in the EU due to violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), according to data from enforcementtracker.com. This means that …

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Infineon has signed a SiC wafer supply deal with SK Siltron. “For Infineon, supply chain resiliency is about implementing a multi-supplier strategy and drive decarbonisation,” said Angelique van der Burg …

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D-Orbit, the Italian space logistics and transportation specialist, has raised €100m from a Series C funding round, raising about €100m. The company described it as one of the largest ever …

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