We are happy to announce the general availability of Amazon EMR Serverless, a new serverless deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy and cost effective for data engineers and analysts to run petabyte-scale data analytics in the cloud. Amazon EMR is a big data solution that you can use to run large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning (ML) applications built on open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. With EMR Serverless, you can run your Spark and Hive applications without having to configure, optimize, tune, or manage clusters.

Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing direct access to manage your S3 on Outposts storage capacity via a private endpoint within your virtual private network. This allows you to simplify your internal network architecture and perform management operations on your S3 storage by using private IP addresses in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), eliminating the need to use public IPs or proxy servers.

You can now learn to use AWS Step Functions with a new workshop called The AWS Step Functions Workshop . This self-paced tutorial teaches you how to use the primary features of Step Functions through a series of interactive modules. Each module contains lesson materials you can deploy to your AWS account, covering topics such as coordinating and orchestrating application workflows, managing workflow states, creating SDK integrations with other AWS services, and more.

Amazon Pinpoint journeys now include the ability to pass data into a custom channel, and be able to perform a yes/no or multivariate split based on the response. Journeys in Amazon Pinpoint were designed for customers who want to send targeted communications that drive high-value user actions. Journeys can include custom channel activities, which can be used to send messages through channels that Amazon Pinpoint doesn’t support natively, such as WhatsApp or Signal.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) 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 RDS groups events into categories that you can subscribe to so that you can be notified when an event in that category occurs, enabling routing and automation.

Today, AWS announced the launch of IP-based routing for Amazon Route 53, AWS’s Domain Name System (DNS) cloud service. Route 53 provides customers with multiple routing options, such as geolocation routing, geoproximity routing, latency-based routing, and weighted routing to route their end users to optimal endpoints. With the addition of IP-based routing, customers are now additionally empowered to fine-tune their DNS routing approach based on the Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block that the query-originating IP address belongs to, allowing them to leverage knowledge of their end user base to optimize performance or network transit costs.

Amazon CloudWatch now supports AWS Elemental MediaTailor logs as part of Vended Logs. Vended logs are specific AWS service logs natively published by AWS services on behalf of the customer and available at volume discount pricing.

AWS Proton introduces service components, a new feature that allows developers complement the standard infrastructure of Proton templates with additional resources for their services. Platform engineers use Proton to define the core infrastructure of their services and keep it consistent and updated across services, and now with components developers can complement that core infrastructure with the additional resources they need to meet the needs of their particular application. Proton components enable platform engineers to expand the use cases they support without having to drastically increase the number of templates that they manage.

When the EU decided to follow the US in having a Chips Act, it seemed pretty simple what they were going to do with the money – persuade TSMC, Samsung or Intel to  build leading edge fab in Europe. After all, if  the Big Three European chip companies were not interested in pursuing leading edge …

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A test version of the payload module of ESA’s exoplanet-detecting Plato spacecraft has undergone a prolonged vacuum soak. This is within the agency’s Large Space Simulator (LSS) to evaluate its endurance of space conditions.

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