AWS Application Discovery Service now includes the Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector to support enterprise customers gathering information for their migration projects. Deployment occurs via a virtual appliance installed within the user’s on-premises data centers, allowing one install to monitor hundreds of servers.

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports Jira Cloud as a source.

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization, from a single visual interface. Customers using Data Wrangler can import data from Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks Lakehouse Platform and more coming.

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached is now a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) eligible service. You can now use ElastiCache for Memcached to store, process, and access protected health information (PHI) and power secure healthcare and life sciences applications. ElastiCache for Memcached is a fully managed, Memcached-compatible, in-memory, key-value store service that delivers sub-millisecond latency to power real-time applications.

AWS has published a service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints, which provides availability guarantees for this service. AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon Route 53 Multi-AZ Resolver Endpoints available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.99% (the “Service Commitment”). In the event Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints does not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described in the Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints Service Level Agreement.

Amazon Personalize has extended the capabilities of its filters, increasing limits and providing control over the number of interactions considered by each filter. Amazon Personalize filters improve the relevance of recommendations by removing products that users have already purchased, videos they have already watched, or other digital content they have already consumed in their recent interactions. Receiving repeated recommendations may be frustrating for users, which could lead to lower user engagement and lost revenue opportunities. Amazon Personalize now offers the option to extend the number of interactions considered by the filters to better capture users’ historical activity, particularly for use-cases where customers have a high volume of interactions. Filters now consider up to 100 interactions per user per event type.

Aliko Dangote of  Nigeria is the richest guy in Africa according to Forbes, with $14.9 billion. Dangote made his money primarily in the cement and sugar industries, having founded Dangote Cement. Second comes Nicky Oppenheimer, the De Beers diamond heir, with $8.6 billion having sold the 40% family stake in De Beers to Anglo-American for …

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One of the star companies in our high-tech firmament has been approached by a foreign company about a takeover, Ed confides to his diary, the price is sky high, but the problem is the buyer is Chinese. Normally I wave these things through because it pleases the City boys who have provided me with some …

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Binder has announced the new 823-series M12 panel mount connectors with L-coding and dip solder contacts. According to the industrial circular connector specialist, the 823-series products are suitable for hand soldering, wave soldering, and reflow soldering on printed circuit boards (PCBs) in automation applications that are typically subject to installation restrictions. There, they can serve …

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Semtech is sampling its CopperEdge product portfolio for use in next generation 400G (4x100G) and 800G (8x100G) data center interconnects using copper cable and backplane interconnects. The CopperEdge GN8112 is a quad channel 112Gbps PAM4 linear equalizer and is the first product sampling in the portfolio. As next generation data center interconnects transition to 112Gbps …

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