Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces the general availability of an increased default quota for a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 6,000 transactions per second, per API action in: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) regions. For Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, the default throughput quota has been increased to 3,000 transactions per second, per API action. This is a twofold increase compared to the current SQS FIFO queue throughput quota. For a detailed breakdown of default throughput quotas per region, see SQS documentation .

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and IVR systems. Today, Amazon Lex launches the FreeFormInput built-in slot type.

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights will now auto-generate Application Level Health Dashboards. Application Insights helps you automatically set up monitoring and enhanced observability for AWS resources. With the new health dashboards, you get a centralized view of all aspects of your application, making it easier and faster to view, sort and search your problems. The visual clues will help you take a faster path towards diagnosing and resolving potential issues.

Today Amazon WorkDocs, a fully managed product for creating, sharing, and enriching digital content, announced the General Availability of an Apple Silicon (M1, M2) compatible WorkDocs Drive. Apple Silicon support for WorkDocs makes it easy for customers with Apple Silicon MacBooks to install and sync WorkDocs files on their devices.

AWS Panorama customers can now pause and resume existing camera stream connections within applications deployed on the AWS Panorama Appliance using the AWS Panorama APIs. As customers deploy Panorama Appliances across multiple sites, they want a scalable way to manage individual camera streams without the overhead of a full application deployment. Using this capability, customers can achieve failover between redundant camera streams, thereby meeting their high availability requirements. They can also dynamically swap between multiple camera streams to meet their business needs. To learn more, visit the AWS Panorama documentation .

AWS Panorama customers can now remotely reboot their connected AWS Panorama Appliance from the AWS console or by using the AWS Panorama SDK. Before this launch, customers were only able to reboot Panorama Appliance by physically pressing the reboot button on the appliance. As customers deploy Panorama Appliances across multiple sites, they want a scalable way to reboot the appliances from one central place. Remote reboot makes it easier for customers to recover from application or device issues and ensures high application uptime without needing to be physically present onsite. To learn more about Remote Reboot for AWS Panorama, click here .

Until a. couple of weeks ago I’d never had a car with GPS in the US. Rand McNally’s excellent maps and road signs had always done the job for me. Two weeks ago, rather against my better judgment, I said Yes when the Avis lady at Houston airpott asked if I wanted GPS. The cost …

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Thank to Dave TV for this one – the ten best jokes from the Edinburgh Festival: 1. I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn’t get pasta – Masai Graham (52%) 2. Did you know, if you get pregnant in the Amazon, it’s next day delivery? …

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Oh my word. Or should that be, Oh my eye! What a striking interface, courtesy of adafruit and one ingenious Gadget Master.

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Viasat’s bid to buy Inmarsat has suffered a further setback and delay. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to deepen its investigation of the deal. The companies were given a short time to allay the “Phase 1” concerns of the regulator but it has now decided to advance to “Phase 2” and …

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