Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. Both M6i and R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances.  

Amazon Connect now has an updated UI for users, routing profiles and queues that records all changes made as events in AWS CloudTrail. This enables you to look in AWS CloudTrail to identify who took which action, what resources were acted upon, when the event occurred, and other details to help you analyze and respond.

You can now enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation for Application Load Balancer (ALB) resources, in addition to CloudFront distributions, protected by AWS Shield Advanced. When you protect your resources with AWS Shield Advanced and enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation, patterns associated with layer 7 DDoS events will be identified and isolated by automatically created AWS WAF rules in your web access control lists (ACLs). These rules can be implemented in count mode to observe how they will impact resource traffic and deployed in block mode at any time. You can also view detection, mitigation, and top contributor metrics associated with application layer DDoS events for further investigation or to assess the effect of any mitigations Shield Advanced creates. These capabilities enable you to quickly respond to and mitigate DDoS events that threaten the availability of your applications.

AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) and as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East).

AWS Security Hub has released 5 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practices standard (FSBP) to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, these controls are enabled by default. Security Hub now supports 192 security controls to automatically check your security posture in AWS.  

62 years ago a company was founded by a legendary inventor. Among many other things he invented a non-volatile random access memory technology. Many major companies licensed the technology. One of the largest claimed it had used the technology to make a memory that was 1000x faster than flash with 1000x better endurance and being …

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I’ll fit these under our Gadget Watch category – AI-Smart Glasses for the visually impaired or blind, by Envision, a company based in Den Haag in The Netherlands.

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Deutsche Bank is the first major bank to forecast a U.S. recession for next year. The report co-authored by the bank’s chief economist David Folkerts-Landau and former Fed official Peter Hooper finds that “the U.S. economy is expected to take a major hit from the extra Fed tightening by late next year and early 2024.” …

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Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) is due to launch tomorrow from Florida and represents the first fully private astronaut mission, for Axiom Space. The privately funded mission, to the International Space Station (ISS), is a fully commercial flight involving commercial spacecraft. And its ultimate aim is the construction of a private space station, Axiom Station, in …

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Samsung’s Q1 operating profit was up 50% at $11.6 billion on sales that were up 18% at $62 billion. Chips for servers and 5G  drove the profit. The DRAM ASP fell 4% and the NAND ASP fell 3% but the NAND ASP is expected to rise 5-10% in Q2 after the contamination issues at Kioxia. …

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