Amazon QuickSight now supports comparative (e.g., year-over-year) and cumulative (e.g., year-to-date) time period functions. These new functions allow QuickSight authors to quickly implement advanced date/time calculations without having to use complicated row offsets or pre-computed columns, allowing these calculations to be added in regular business reporting, trend analysis and time series analysis. For further details, visit here .

AWS Resilience Hub, which provides a central place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications on AWS, has just launched in 13 additional AWS Regions: US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo).

Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports collection and tracking of query execution plans for Amazon RDS for Oracle, so you can more easily identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of a worse performing or a stuck query.

You can now access five new metrics when using AWS PrivateLink for VPC Endpoints and VPC Endpoint Services. AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed private connectivity service that enables customers to access AWS services, third-party services or internal enterprise services hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable manner while keeping network traffic private. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now support PostgreSQL major version 14. PostgreSQL 14 includes performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities. For example, you can cancel long-running queries if a client disconnects and you can close idle sessions if they time out. In addition, stored procedures now return data.

Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS).

Amazon EC2 G4dn instances which provide a cost-effective GPU platform for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS region.

I am putting this information on the web as someone else might need it, and it has been an interesting few evenings in a garage. A friend of mine has been making a camper van heating system, covered earlier here using a Webasto Thermo Top C diesel heater at its heart. Sadly, something happened, and both the …

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“I’m gonna be stuck in meetings all day”. Most professionals have uttered this sentence at some point in their careers. An analysis from Dialpad Meetings from January 2019 to June 2021 and a survey of 2,800 U.S. professionals, finds that, in an average week, 5% were in video conferences for more than 20 hours. equating to …

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The IMF has cut its growth forecast for the world economy by 0.5%. According to its latest World Economic Outlook, published on Tuesday, the organization now expects global gross domestic product to grow 4.4% this year, down from its October 2021 forecast of 4.9%. “The global economy enters 2022 in a weaker position than previously …

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