AWS Amplify is announcing the release of version 5 of the JavaScript library, which includes highly requested features for Web and React Native developers. This release also introduces a new Notifications channel, In-App Messaging, that developers can use to display contextual messages to their users based on their behavior. The Amplify JavaScript library has also received improvements to reduce the overall bundle size and installation size. 

You can now enable more granular access controls for security profiles by configuring resource tags within the Amazon Connect admin website. Tagging a security profile allows you to configure granular permissions and define who is able to access a specific security profile. For example, you can now tag all security profiles assigned to users within a business process outsourcer (BPO) with BPO:A, and then only enable administrators of that BPO to access to these security profiles. To learn more about tagging security profiles and tag-based access controls, see the Connect Administrator Guide .

Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region . With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 27 regions.

Starting in April 2023, Amazon S3 will introduce two new default bucket security settings by automatically enabling S3 Block Public Access and disabling S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets. Once complete, these defaults will apply to all new buckets regardless of how they are created, including AWS CLI, APIs, SDKs, and AWS CloudFormation. These defaults have been in place for buckets created in the S3 management console since the two features became available in 2018 and 2021, respectively, and are recommended security best practices. There is no change for existing buckets.

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

Amazon EBS direct APIs now support the IPv6 protocol, so that applications to connect through EBS direct APIs over IPv6. EBS direct APIs enable customers to simplify their backup and recovery workflows by directly creating and reading EBS snapshots via APIs. With this change, customers can meet their IPv6 compliance needs, integrate with existing IPv6-based on-premises applications, and remove the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL-compatibile edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL running major version 14. PostgreSQL 14   consists of performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities. For example, you can cancel long-running queries if a client disconnects and you can close idle sessions if they time out. With this launch, you can enforce SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism ) password-based authentication for proxy, making connections from your applications more secure.

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.

Songs such as Shakira’s Waka Waka and England’s classic Three Lions have become synonymous with the FIFA World Cup and the Euro Championships. This inspired SeatPick to study the science behind songs like these to learn what makes them so catchy. Highlights from the research: Shakira’s Waka Waka (It’s time for Africa) is crowned the catchiest …

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Arduino has released Arduino PLC IDE a new version of its IDE (integrated development environment) software for use with PLCs (programmable logic controllers). The software supports the use of Ladder Diagrams, Functional Block Diagrams, Structured Text, Sequential Function Charts and Instruction Lists – the five languages officially defined by the IEC 61131-3 standard. It would …

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