Today, Amazon Location Service added matrix routing, making it easier for customers to quickly calculate driving time and driving distance between multiple origins and destinations. With matrix routing, developers can use a single API request to reduce the latency associated with multiple routing calculations, allowing them to simplify their code, and improve the experience of their customers. For example, an application that plans delivery routes can now use Amazon Location’s matrix routing capabilities to request the driving time and distance for all deliveries for a given period. They can reduce the number of requests and latency by making one request of up to 350 origins by 350 destination to retrieve 122,500 drive times and distances.

AWS Launch Wizard now supports SAP S/4HANA 2021, SAP BW/4HANA 2021, SAP HANA SPS06, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)15 SP3.

Amazon Location Service now offers request-based pricing for all customer use cases, including those with asset-based applications. For instance, if a developer building a delivery application needs to find the positions (latitude/longitude) associated with delivery addresses, they can pay per address searched. With Amazon Location, there are no upfront fees, no required minimum commitments, and no long-term contracts. Now it’s even easier for developers to add location awareness to their asset-based applications.

Today, AWS Trusted Advisor adds 111 checks automatically ingested from AWS Security Hub‘s Foundational Security Best Practices . You can find the full list of Security Hub checks here .

AWS Panorama is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions. 

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, enabling you to monitor and alarm on performance and storage usage metrics for your file systems and volumes.

Muck is still in the top ten most visited global web-sites – but only just. According to SimilarWeb, porn scrapes in at No.10 with xvideos.com attracting 3.2m visitors last November. No surprise that Google is No.1 but the seventh place ranking of baidu of China, with 5.5m visitors in November, is unexpected.

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Thanks to the CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia for this one – the top ten telecom companies measured by revenue: $bb AT&T 171 Verizon 128 Deutsche 22 China Mobile 116 NTT 107 Comcast 103 China Telecom 57 SoftBank 56  Vodafone 52 America Movil. 52

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SEMI FlexTech has announced more than $5 million in funding for five new R&D projects aimed at flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) innovations for sensors, medical devices, automotive electronics and other consumer and industrial microelectronics products. “The new projects push the limits of technology in ways that are not funded by private sector alone, illustrating the …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) is highlighting that astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) are connecting straight to Europe at light speed, via the European Data Relay System dubbed ColKa. An upgrade to the comms system is now delivering broadband internet at speeds equivalent to those on Earth, says ESA. The satellite in …

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