Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne).

Today we are announcing the support for UEFI Secure Boot on Amazon Linux instances. Starting with AL2023.1, customers can now use Secure Boot on Amazon Linux instances to verify the digital signature of all boot components.

Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports a new, enhanced binary log (binlog). The enhanced binlog reduces the compute performance overhead caused by enabling binlog, which, in certain cases, can reach up to 50%, down to 13%. The enhanced binlog also improves database recovery time by up to 99% after restarts and failovers, as compared to when native MySQL binlog is enabled.

Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available in public preview. This feature enables near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on petabytes of transactional data stored in Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. Data written into Aurora is available in Amazon Redshift within seconds, so you can quickly act on it without having to build and maintain complex data pipelines. Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available for Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 and Provisioned as well as Amazon Redshift Serverless and RA3 instance types.

Customers can now use Apache Flink 1.15 with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio to perform ad hoc queries to quickly inspect data streams and build and run stream processing applications in minutes.

Thanks to TinyWow for this one – the five best places in England for WFH: Kingston upon Hull was the best with the the best internet speeds in Britain averaging 228.4 Mbps download speeds. 97.7% of residential premises in Hull were found to have access to ultrafast broadband. The city has also the fifth lowest house prices in England, at an …

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Never has  Churchill’s riddle, mystery enigma quote about the Russkies looked so pertinent – providing endless possibilities for the armchair political analysts e.g: Prigozhin is a busted flush. Putin is a busted flush Prigozhin is plotting with Lukashenko to do the Et Tu Brute bit on Putin. Putin and Lukashenko are plotting to finish off …

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Arduino is launching new versions of the Uno board powered by a Renesas 32-bit microcontroller. The Uno R4 comes in two versions: the basic Uno R4 Minima and the Espressif -based Uno R4 WiFi. Described as a significant revision of its 8-bit technology, the R4 will preserve the standard form factor, shield compatibility and 5V …

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Swissbit, the Swiss industrial storage and security specialist, is introducing e.MMCs and SD memory cards with capacities ranging from 4 to 8GB. They are based on 3D-TLC-NAND and optimised for power failure protection, industrial reliability, and high endurance, says the company, which suggests IIoT and smart city applications. e.MMC EM-30 Taking the two products in …

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Toshiba has started mass production of new MCUs (TMPM3HxF10xx) in the M3H group of the TXZ  Family Advanced Class, manufactured in a 40nm process. In recent years, the need for larger programme capacity and support for FOTA (Firmware Over the Air) updates has grown significantly. The new MCUs expand the maximum code flash memory capacity …

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