We are excited to announce the launch of a new CloudWatch Logger feature with AWS Amplify, which is available now for Swift and Android developers. This feature empowers developers to log errors from the Amplify libraries to CloudWatch, enhancing the ability to detect production issues. It also enables developers to write custom logs to detect failures in different parts of their applications. 

VT1 instances are the first Amazon EC2 instances that deliver dedicated hardware acceleration for video transcoding, and are optimized for workloads such as live streaming, video conferencing, video library optimization, and just-in-time asset transcoding. VT1 is powered by the AMD-Xilinx Alveo U30 media accelerator and can support streams up to 4K UHD resolution at 60 frames per second (fps) and can transcode up to 64 simultaneous 1080p60 streams in real time.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Local Time Zones. You can now set the time zone for your Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server instances to the local time zone of your choice. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) now supports up to 55,000 read IOPS and 25,000 write IOPS, making it easier to power Machine Learning (ML) research, financial simulations, big data analytics, and other data-intensive workloads on AWS.

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

Starting today, the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports secondary host metrics in Enhanced Monitoring. Customers can now view essential metrics associated on the secondary host of a Multi-AZ DB instance, such as free storage, free memory, Read/Write IOPS, Read/Write Throughput, CPU utilization, and etc. See OS metrics in Enhanced Monitoring for more details.

Postponing the 2030 date for stopping the sale of new ICE cars is on the political agenda however, if  it is not postponed, the government will have another dilemma: How should it tax imports of Chinese EVs? Forvia CEO Patrick Kolker says the Chinese can build an EV for €10,000 euros less than European companies.. …

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Donald Trump raised around $54 million in the first six month of the year – far ahead of Ron DeSantis ($19.7 million) and Vivek Ramaswamy ($19.2 million, largely from self-financing), according to the US Federal Election Commission (FEC). However, the filings also show that this money – as well as money raised in 2022 and …

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The Space Foundation has released its 2023 Q2 report showing the annual growth of the global space economy reaching $546 billion. The U.S.-based nonprofit organisation said this represented an 8% growth for the space industry. Within this, commercial growth – accounting for 78% of the total space economy – was recorded at nearly 8%, reaching …

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Mouser has set up a resource centre focused on AI containing articles on topics, such as Deploying Edge-Based AI Using KriaSoMs, An Edge Impulse Use-Case for Healthcare and Cancer Detection, and  An Edge Impulse Use-Case for Healthcare and Cancer Detection. The content stream grants access to free educational content, such as eBooks, blogs and articles, …

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