Amazon GameLift can now publish events to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics that have server-side encryption (SSE) enabled, for additional protection of events that carry sensitive data. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this release, customers can now enable server-side encryption to receive player matchmaking and game session queue notifications from the GameLift service.  

Today, Workspot announces Workspot Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core. You can now provision, deploy, and manage Workspot Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core directly from Workspot Control: your single global administration console. You can also use your existing security, PC management tools, and Security Event and Incident Management (SIEM) solutions seamlessly extending your current desktop management processes to your new Cloud PCs. 

Today, we are making it easier for customers to view and manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on their AWS accounts using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS Software Development Kit (SDK). We previously released the Accounts SDK that enables customers to programmatically manage both primary and alternate contact information for their accounts. Starting today, customers can use the same SDK to additionally enable and disable opt-in AWS Regions, saving them the time and effort of doing it through the AWS Management Console.

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data.

Amazon EventBridge event buses now supports enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas. Previously, you could use the AWS Service Quotas page to view the default quotas, applied quotas, and also request quota increases for Amazon EventBridge. Now, with enhanced integration, your quota increase requests for limits such as PutEvents transactions-per-second, number of rules, and invocations per second among others will be processed within one business day or faster, enabling you to respond quickly to changes in usage. 

Data from Statista’s Consumer Insights shows how the share of UK adults using health insurance has nearly doubled in the past year. Where the percentage of adults paying for private health insurance has been at around 12% mark since 2019, in the latest survey wave, ending in December 2022, the figure had climbed to 22%.

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THE reasons for comparatively fewer students choosing to read for technological qualifications in this country than in the US and Russia are to be investigated by the University of Oxford Department of Education. So, 61 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 8th 1961. The story continues: A grant to the …

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Google has begun its journey towards Android 14, its next major release of the mobile OS. It has released Developer Preview 1. As always, such a release is not for general users but for developers, providing an early look at the next version of Android, for testing, development, and feedback. Note that you will need …

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A German consortium is looking into short-distance optical quantum key distribution for secure data communication. “Previous research has focused on long-distance secure data communication for applications in the global data infrastructure, for networking government or military facilities, or for information exchange with satellites,” according to research lab Fraunhofer IPMS. “However, the connections to the end …

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Pulsiv, the UK AC to DC power conversion specialist, has signed a distribution agreement with CATS S.A.S of France adding local support for the important French market.  “CATS have a diverse history and wealth of experience in supporting French customers with power electronics projects,” says Pulsiv’s Nick Theodoris, “along standing relationship with the management team …

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