Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Cirion data center in Santiago, Chile. 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.

Starting today, Amazon AppStream now provides support for the DCV Extension Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK allows customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to build custom extensions for AppStream 2.0 which is powered by DCV technology.

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix BG1 Bogotá data center in Bogotá, Colombia. 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.

Today, AWS announces the launch of the Invoice Summary feature. This feature offers additional configurations to AWS customers to reduce the overall size of the AWS Invoices.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports Amazon RDS Optimized Reads for up to 50% faster query processing compared to previous generation instances on Multi-AZ deployment option with two readable standby database instances. Optimized Read-enabled instances achieve faster query processing by placing temporary tables generated by MySQL on the local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage that’s physically connected to the host server. Complex queries that utilize temporary tables, such as queries involving sorts, hash aggregations, high-load joins, and Common Table Expressions (CTEs) can now execute up to 50% faster with Optimized Reads on RDS for MySQL.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Security Lake. This service automatically centralizes security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account. Security Lake makes it easier to analyze security data, gain a more comprehensive understanding of security across your entire organization, and improve the protection of your workloads, applications, and data. Security Lake automates the collection and management of your security data from multiple accounts and AWS Regions, so you can use your preferred analytics tools while retaining complete control and ownership over your security data. Security Lake has adopted the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), an open standard. With OCSF support, the service normalizes and combines security data from AWS and a broad range of enterprise security data sources.

We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize now offers more flexibility in model training by allowing customers to select which columns in their datasets are used for training. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Amazon Personalize uses data provided by customers to train custom models on their behalf. Previously, all columns in a customer’s dataset were considered during model training. Amazon Personalize now allows customers to exclude columns from training, making it easier to experiment with the data that is used to train models. With this new capability, customers now have the flexibility to filter on any of their data, regardless of whether it is used for training.

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

To extend the working  temperature range of semiconductor devices in an upward direction is a known need. If this will permit the construction of more versatile as well as a broader variety of transistor-like devices we have a double gain. Research into intermetallic compounds, where the bonding is, primarily covalent, has shown that the presence …

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Signify has retrofitted the twin 4.5km bores of Dublin Port Tunnel with led lighting. “The upgraded lighting has achieved up to 60% reduction in electricity use, based on 2022 rates,” it said. “The project is expected to save upwards of €4m in electricity costs including VAT over the coming five years.” The existing fittings were …

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