Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service.

Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Europe (London) AWS Region.

You can now import asymmetric and HMAC keys into AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) and use them within supported KMS-integrated AWS services and your own applications. Importing your own key gives you direct control over the generation, lifecycle management, and durability of your keys. You can control the availability of your imported keys by setting an expiration period, or deleting and re-importing them at any time. You have greater control over the durability of your imported keys because you can maintain the original version of the keys elsewhere. These additional controls could help you meet your specific compliance requirements if you must generate and store copies of keys outside of AWS.

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports in-place version upgrades for environments version 2.x and later.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a new capability of Amazon FinSpace that makes it simple to configure, run, and manage kdb Insights on AWS. KX Systems’ kdb Insights, a high-performance analytics engine, is optimized for analyzing real-time and multi-petabyte historical capital markets data. Kdb Insights is widely used in capital markets to power business-critical workloads such as option pricing, transaction cost analysis, and back-testing.

AWS CloudTrail Lake now provides the ability to selectively start or stop ingestion of CloudTrail events into your CloudTrail Lake event data store. This capability enables you to collect events only for a specific time window for troubleshooting or security analysis without having to delete or recreate the event data store. When you stop ingestion, the event data store continues to retain ingested events based on its retention period. For audit purposes, CloudTrail generates events that capture the start and stop ingestion activity. 

AWS Lambda now supports three new CloudWatch metrics AsyncEventsReceived, AsyncEventAge and AsyncEventsDropped, to monitor the performance of asynchronous event processing in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Until now, Lambda customers had limited visibility into the processing of asynchronous requests, and had to rely on Lambda service teams to resolve any processing delays leading to inefficiencies in asynchronous event processing. With these new metrics, customers gain better visibility into their asynchronous invocations and can track the events sent to Lambda, monitor delays in event processing and take corrective actions if required.

Trust in news has fallen in many countries after a temporary increase during Covid, says the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022.  Overall trust in the news fell in 21 out of the 46 markets analyzed, while 18 markets remained at a similar level and only seven saw an uptick. Finland had the highest share …

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Check out the work of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which has been creating and testing a snake-like robot called EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor).

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The UK government has announced £50 million of funding – the Space Clusters and Infrastructure Fund (SCIF) – to support research and development with a focus on building the UK’s space infrastructure. Basically, SCIF aims to help build or upgrade R&D facilities and equipment that can bring high value space technologies to market. Specifically, it …

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