Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) will support MySQL 5.7.40. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, this release is fully compatible with MySQL 5.7.40. Previous Aurora MySQL 2.x versions were compatible with MySQL 5.7.12. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 2 and MySQL 5.7.40 release notes.

AWS CloudFormation announces looping capability with Fn::ForEach intrinsic function . With Fn::ForEach, you can replicate parts of your templates with minimal lines of code. You can use Fn::ForEach to simplify your template layout and make it easier and faster for you and your peers to review your code. Fn::ForEach helps reduce human errors such as updating wrong properties or missing out on updating multiple target properties in your template.

The contact center industry is expanding to meet the needs of their customers. With the rapid growth seen in the industry, more diverse and scalable solutions and products are needed. Essential to supporting the customer and consumer experience is supporting that growth with AWS integrations. The contact center industry can be complex, often addressing multiple needs by customers. Whether it is investments in CRM, advanced workforce engagement or compliance solutions, it’s important that customers know that their investment in Amazon Connect is secure. Validated AWS Partners in the Amazon Connect Ready specialization provide software solutions through Amazon Connect.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports a progress indicator for improved visibility into the storage optimization process. With the progress indicator, you get better visibility into the progress of storage optimization process such as scaling up of storage sizes and changing the storage volumes.

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

Those US chip CEOs lobbying the US government for less restrictions on their China trade, should be wary of fulfilling Lenin’s prophecy that: “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we hang them”. For the chip industry, which has long been based on international interdependence, the current US restrictions are a particular challenge …

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The Motorola Defy Satellite Link – a simple pendant – is a Bluetooth accessory for your smartphone to help bridge any losses in cellular signal, turning instead to a satellite link.

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Thanks to Semiconductor Intelligence for this one – the top 15 IC companies in Q1:

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RAL Space is helping to create a new Small Satellite Calibration Facility, which will be located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus near Didcot in Oxfordshire. As the name suggests, it will specialise in instrument calibration and characterisation, helping to ensure the required performance for both full satellite payloads and components. Who will be …

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Cadence is to buy Rambus’ SerDes and memory interface PHY IP business, leaving Rambus with its digital IP business, including memory and interface controllers and security IP. The purchase  brings Cadence proven and experienced PHY engineering teams in the US, India and Canada. “Memory and SerDes IP design and integration continues to be integral to …

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