Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server now supports Cross Region Automated Backups with encryption. The Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups feature enables disaster recovery capability for mission-critical databases by providing you the ability to restore your database to a specific point in time within your backup retention period. This allows you to quickly resume operations in the event that the primary AWS Region becomes unavailable. If you’ve enabled encryption on the source RDS for SQL Server DB instance, you can use this feature to copy encrypted DB snapshots to regions outside of the primary AWS region.

Starting today, Amazon Neptune Serverless has lowered its minimum scaling requirements to 1 Neptune Capacity Unit (NCU) from 2.5 NCUs. This brings down the cost of running Neptune Serverless by reducing the resources used by up to 2.5X when the graph database is not actively responding to user queries. With a 1 NCU minimum, you could save on your graph database by using Neptune Serverless.

Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now supports Proactive Insights , a new set of findings that inform you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical. With Proactive Insights, Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS continuously monitors database instances for potential issues that can lead to degraded database health in the future. When such conditions are detected, Proactive Insights will generate a finding that describes the nature of the impending problem, and specific actions you can take to mitigate it. Proactive Insights are available for Amazon DevOps Guru customers, with no additional setup or configuration needed. Proactive Insights are supported for Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL database engines at the moment.

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) supports MySQL 8.0.26. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.26 includes several changes, such as enhanced tablespace file segment page configuration and new aliases for certain identifier names. For more details, please review Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.26 release notes.

Amazon Detective finding groups now include a dynamic visual representation of the behavior graph of Detective to emphasize the relationships between security findings and the associated entities within a finding group. This addition makes it easier for customers to triage potential security issues with at-a-glance visuals that include finding types, severity levels, associated account(s), and linkages within the Detective behavioral graph that can be used to investigate related activity within a finding group.

Thanks to IDC for this one – the five biggest selling smartphone vendors last year:   Top 5 Companies, Worldwide Smartphone Shipments, Market Share, and Year-Over-Year Growth, CY2022 (Preliminary results, shipments in millions of units) Company 2022 Shipment Volumes* 2022 Market Share* 2021 Shipment Volumes 2021 Market Share Year-Over-Year Change* Samsung 260.9 21.6% 272.1 20.0% …

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The US Chips Act funding may look like free money but Uncle Sam is looking for some concessions in return. One is he wants companies which take the money to invest in childcare, because getting women back to work after having children is becoming seen as important in the US. Another is companies taking the …

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Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS has had a version of its 32bit AIRisc RISC-V microcontroller intellectual property certified by by TÜV SGS to the ISO 26262 ASIL-D automotive safety standard. Called AIRisc-Safety, it can now be licensed from the organisation, which also offers customised versions for asic and FPGA integration. “Certification means that …

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PRFI, a UK design house specialising in microwave and millimetre-wave IC design, has moved to new premises in Ickleton, near Cambridge, with a larger clean room and more office space. Located at Abbey Barns in Ickleton, the new PRFI facility is housed in an attractive converted and restored agricultural building that originally dates from the …

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  The quantum market will be worth $2.1 billion in 2030, says Yole Developpement, with the quantum computing segment reaching more than $4 billion by 2035. Overall the quantum technology market place will grow with a 13% CAGR from a total market of $761 million in 2022 to $1,099 million in 2025. Breaking this down …

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