You can now try Amazon Timestream with a 1-month free trial. First time users now have the opportunity to experiment with and adopt Timestream at zero cost for a duration of one month, while adhering to specific usage quotas. This free trial enables you to evaluate the feature set of Timestream and without any financial commitment.
New commitment pricing is now generally available for AWS Private 5G
AWS announces two new pricing options for AWS Private 5G for longer-term network deployments. Now, in addition to the 60-day pricing option, you can deploy your private mobile network with a 1-year or 3-year pricing option, at a lower per-hourly rate.
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne).
Amazon Linux announces support for secure boot with AL2023.1
Today we are announcing the support for UEFI Secure Boot on Amazon Linux instances. Starting with AL2023.1, customers can now use Secure Boot on Amazon Linux instances to verify the digital signature of all boot components.
Aurora MySQL improves performance when binlog is enabled in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports a new, enhanced binary log (binlog). The enhanced binlog reduces the compute performance overhead caused by enabling binlog, which, in certain cases, can reach up to 50%, down to 13%. The enhanced binlog also improves database recovery time by up to 99% after restarts and failovers, as compared to when native MySQL binlog is enabled.
AWS announces Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift (Public Preview)
Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available in public preview. This feature enables near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on petabytes of transactional data stored in Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. Data written into Aurora is available in Amazon Redshift within seconds, so you can quickly act on it without having to build and maintain complex data pipelines. Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available for Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 and Provisioned as well as Amazon Redshift Serverless and RA3 instance types.
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio now supports Apache Flink version 1.15
Customers can now use Apache Flink 1.15 with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio to perform ad hoc queries to quickly inspect data streams and build and run stream processing applications in minutes.
Top Ten (less 5) Best UK Cities For WFH
Thanks to TinyWow for this one – the five best places in England for WFH: Kingston upon Hull was the best with the the best internet speeds in Britain averaging 228.4 Mbps download speeds. 97.7% of residential premises in Hull were found to have access to ultrafast broadband. The city has also the fifth lowest house prices in England, at an …
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Riddle, Mystery, Enigma
Never has Churchill’s riddle, mystery enigma quote about the Russkies looked so pertinent – providing endless possibilities for the armchair political analysts e.g: Prigozhin is a busted flush. Putin is a busted flush Prigozhin is plotting with Lukashenko to do the Et Tu Brute bit on Putin. Putin and Lukashenko are plotting to finish off …
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Arduino evolves with Renesas-based 32-bit Uno R4 versions
Arduino is launching new versions of the Uno board powered by a Renesas 32-bit microcontroller. The Uno R4 comes in two versions: the basic Uno R4 Minima and the Espressif -based Uno R4 WiFi. Described as a significant revision of its 8-bit technology, the R4 will preserve the standard form factor, shield compatibility and 5V …
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