Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the Rust programming language as a new trusted procedural language. This allows you to build high performance user defined functions to extend PostgreSQL for compute-intensive data processing.

AWS Wickr is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers that are subject to HIPAA can use AWS Wickr to communicate with internal stakeholders and external partners while helping to protect against third-party access to personal data, including personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI).

Amazon Redshift announces support for enhanced transaction controls inside stored procedures which enables you to automatically commit the statements inside the procedure. This new NONATOMIC mode can be used for those applications that would like to handle exceptions inside a stored procedure more smoothly. In addition, the NONATOMIC mode helps prevent disruptions in applications due to an error inside a stored procedure.

AWS re:Post is a cloud knowledge service that provides customers the technical guidance they need to innovate faster and improve operational efficiency with AWS services. Today, re:Post launched the capability for users to associate multiple email addresses to their re:Post profile . re:Post users now have the flexibility to add up to three email addresses and can designate a primary email account for receiving notifications. If users don’t receive an email verification in their primary email account during registration, then they can use one of the other email addresses for verification.

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in two additional AWS Regions – Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Middle East (UAE), expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-three.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6i and M6i instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). These instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.

Starting today, memory optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in Asia Pacific South (Hyderabad) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database.

The PA Raspberry Pi competition is a great challenge, aimed at schools, to solve problems using the single-board computer.

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I have always admired the art of Brian Rix, the Whitehall farceur. I learned only recently that in addition to his stage, film and TV work, he is an amateur radio enthusiast of more than 20 years standing. And today, appropriately enough, he opens the International Radio Hobbies Exhibition in London. So, 63 years ago, …

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Working for consumer brand Melitta, Trojan Electronics in Swansea has rebuilt and repaired warrany returns to create almost 500 like-new bean-to-cup coffee machines. Parts such as coffee grinders, water tanks and sensors units were harvested from beyond-repair items and used to repair other units, according to Trojan. As part of the process, which has created …

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