Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters. 

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Region with AWS Direct Connect. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. 

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Europe (Spain) AWS Region with AWS Direct Connect. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate now lets you configure the size of ephemeral storage up to a maximum of 200GiB for your Windows containers. With this launch, you can now configure ephemeral storage for your Fargate tasks running on both Linux (platform 1.4.0 and above) and Windows (platform 1.0.0 and above). 

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions.

We are excited to highlight AWS Media & Entertainment Competency Partners, who enable enterprises to navigate their media and entertainment workloads to the cloud in an efficient, cost-effective method backed by AWS.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the with a few simple clicks.

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is announcing availability of ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) AMIs and group managed service accounts (gMSA) on ECS Linux containers through credentials-fetcher integration. gMSA is a managed account that provides automatic password management, service principal name (SPN) management, and the ability to delegate management to administrators over multiple servers or instances. This integration allows applications hosted on Amazon ECS Linux containers to easily authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access network shared resources. This integration enables customers to continue using AD as well as get the cost, reliability, and scalability benefits of Amazon Linux on ECS. 

Although the transistor had been invented the year before, the makers of this hat had to use vacuum tubes  when they put it on the market in 1949. The hat could pick up radio stations within a radius of 20 miles. It came in a variety  of colours: Lipstick Red, Tangerine, Flamingo, Canary Yellow, Chartreuse, …

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