You can now use AWS Elemental Link and AWS Elemental MediaLive to ingest and deliver KLV metadata from a MediaLive channel.

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Tel Aviv region, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number , or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic. 

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now offers observability of SAP NetWeaver applications deployed with Standard System Deployment architecture. This launch builds on our observability of multi-app deployments on a single instance. Application Insights helps customers gain insights for their SAP and non-SAP applications, databases and AWS resources by making it easy to set up and monitor applications, recognize problems, and use data to make decisions. 

AWS Compute Optimizer now recommends licensing optimization opportunities for Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon EC2. With this launch, AWS Compute Optimizer can provide automated recommendations for downgrading SQL Server Edition for your EC2 SQL Server license included and bring-your-own-license (BYOL) instances to reduce licensing cost.

Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 23 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale.

There’s always a honey pot, Ed confides to his diary, where people are spending any amount of money to progress their  chip industries. At the moment there are several, but …

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Astrobotic, the lunar logistics specialist, has begun work on what it describes as a high-fidelity 3D test field mimicking the topography and optical properties of the lunar surface. Basically, it …

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Huawei and Ericsson have renewed their patent cross-licensing agreement which was last renewed in 2016..   It allows each company to access each other’s standard essential patents set by 3GPP, …

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Private equity firm Veritas Capital has made an offer to buy BlackBerry, reports Reuters. Other prospective buyers are in talks with the company which has been conducting a strategic review. …

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Macom has bought Wolfspeed’s RF business for $75 million in cash, and $50 million in Macom stock. Wolfspeed  will keep its SiC substrate and GaN epitaxial services businesses, and sell …

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