Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Hannah, a new Austrian German Neural voice.

Amazon Redshift now offers new enhancements for Audit Logging, which enables faster delivery of logs for analysis by minimizing latency while also adding Amazon CloudWatch as a new log destination. With this release, customers can choose to stream audit logs directly to Amazon CloudWatch, which enables customers to perform real-time monitoring.

AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. DataSync can copy data to and from Network File System (NFS) shares, Server Message Block (SMB) shares, self-managed object storage, Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS), AWS Snowcone, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems, and Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems. 

On April 19th, 2022 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 18.0.1, 17.0.3, 11.0.15, and 8u332 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.

You can now launch Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now helps you read and write data in Apache Spark more easily by using the open-source Spark Cassandra Connector .

The next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems is now available in three additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Europe (London).

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Quip connector to index and search documents in their Quip repository.

Basketball player Michael Jordan is the highest-paid athlete of all time, according Sportico. Jordan’s inflation-adjusted career earnings amount to $2.62 billion, with more than $100 million coming from licence payments from Nike according to estimates from Forbes.   Another basketball player, LeBron James, ranked 7th with career earnings of $1.17 billion. Three golfers made the top 5 …

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A COMPLETELY new method of car ignition, using transistors, will be shown by Joseph Lucas (Electrical) at the International Motor Show opening at Geneva tomorrow (Thursday). So, 61 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 15th 1961. The story continues: Although it will at first be confined to racing cars, it …

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