Amazon EMR on EKS supports Custom Images  – a functionality that helps customers customize the Docker container image used for running Apache Spark applications on EMR on EKS. Today, EMR on EKS open-sourced a Custom Image Validation Tool  that allows customers to run an automated suite of tests to validate their customized docker container image.

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) now enables customers to launch Hyperledger Fabric 2.2 fully managed networks with advanced chaincode management and data sharing features. AMB is a fully managed service that allows customers to set up and manage scalable private blockchain networks with just a few clicks. AMB eliminates the overhead required to create the blockchain network and automatically scales to meet the demands of thousands of applications running millions of transactions.

You can now run OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 1.1 on Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service). The new version includes several improvements such as cross-cluster replication support for clusters running OpenSearch, anomaly detection for historical data, and improved alerting.

AWS Storage Gateway now supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A on Tape Gateway, enabling you to backup and archive data from Dell EMC NetWorker and Veeam Backup & Replication to AWS without changing your backup workflows. With this announcement, Tape Gateway supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A running on Microsoft Windows Server 2019.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) announces the release of Version 1.0 (v1.0) of the Private CA Kubernetes cert-manager plugin, an open source plugin for cert-manager that offers a secure certificate authority solution for Kubernetes containers. ACM Private CA is AWS’s managed and highly available private CA service, and cert-manager is a widely-adopted solution for TLS certificate management in Kubernetes. Customers who use cert-manager for certificate lifecycle management can use this plugin with ACM Private CA to improve security over the default cert-manager CA, which stores keys in plaintext in server memory. v1.0 of the plugin replaces v0.3.1 released in July 2021 and is production ready with new features, maintenance improvements, and bug fixes. With this release, we’ve added automated end-to-end integration testing that runs with each software change. This means any plugin changes from now on are automatically tested before being released. This improves quality and production-readiness. The plugin’s repository automatically makes releases available in an AWS-owned ECR repository, so customers always get the latest version of the plugin.

Previews are now available for AWS Glue Interactive Sessions and Job Notebooks, two new serverless features of AWS Glue that help simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. Interactive Sessions enable data engineers to interactively explore and prepare data. Glue Studio Job Notebooks provide serverless notebooks with minimal setup so developers can get started quickly.

Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection and remediation in AWS Glue is now available in preview. This feature uses pattern matching and machine learning to automatically detect PII at both the column and cell levels during an AWS Glue job run. AWS Glue includes options to log the type of PII and its location and immediately take remedial action as necessary.

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Those two unlikely tech visionaries, Melania Trump and Paris Hilton, are each setting up NFT peddling businesses. Modestly, Melania has chosen as her first NFT, a picture of herself called Melania’s Vision described as “a breathtaking watercolour art by Marc-Antoine Coulon and embodies Mrs Trump’s cobalt blue eyes, providing the collector with an amulet to …

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Amphenol RF has expanded its SMP product series with a newright‐angle cable plug designed for easier assembly andimproved performance. SMP connectors are for telecommunications and military applications which require compact, secure RF interconnect. This new commercial product utilizes the standard SMP interface and provides a high‐frequency solution that offers reliable performance up to 26.5 GHz. Designed …

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