AWS Local Zones are now available in three new metro areas—Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro. You can now use these AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon provided IPv6 contiguous Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). Within IPAM, customers can create IPv6 publicly scoped pools and provision with BYOIP CIDR blocks. Now, customers can provision Amazon provided IPv6 CIDR blocks from /52 up to /40 in size into separate pools for association to Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Contiguous CIDR blocks can be used for sequential VPC creation. CIDRs can then be aggregated in a single entry across networking and security constructs like access control lists, route tables, security groups, and firewalls.  

Amazon QuickSight pivot tables now support more data than ever before with new the field limits, unlocking advance use cases. The value field well limits have been increased from 20 to 40, and Rows and Columns have been increased from 20 each to a combined limit of 40. For example, if the user has 34 fields in rows then they can add 40-34 = max 6 fields to the column field well. Refer here for more information.

Amazon QuickSight now supports data bars for tables. Data bars are essentially bar charts displayed for a given column, where the bar length specifies the magnitude of the cell value relative to the range of values in the same column. Data bars make it easier to read and compare values and quickly spot outliers. You can set data bars for only numeric fields and set color for both positive and negatives values separately. More details can be found here .

Amazon VPC IP address manager (IPAM) now lets you manage IP addresses in accounts outside of your AWS Organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). This simplifies your IP management workflows (e.g., plan, track, and monitor) by enabling you to use a single IPAM across all your AWS accounts.

AWS announces the general availability of Porting Advisor for Graviton. The Porting Advisor for Graviton is an open-source command line tool that analyzes source code and generates a report highlighting missing and outdated libraries and code constructs that may require modification along with recommendations for alternatives. It accelerates your transition to AWS Graviton-based instances by reducing the iterative process of identifying and resolving source code and library dependencies.

One of the few remaining reasons to use Windows on computers here has just gone, as my ageing PicoScope 3205 (not to be confused with the current 3205D) is happily ticking away on a Linux Mint PC as I type. PicoScopes are display-less PC scopes from UK-based Pico Technology. They have real scope performance (and …

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The rather revolting fight to dismember Toshiba has become curiously complex. One one hand there’s a plan by the domestic  buyout fund Japan Industrial Partners (JIP)to take the publicly quoted Toshiba private. JIP is putting together a consortium consisting of  some 20 Japanese industrial companies with Japanese banks asked to provide some $11 billion in …

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Just to flag this one, though you may have noticed it already: Arduino support for MicroPython – an optimised version of the language that runs on MCUs – is now available as a downloadable editor. It’s officially becoming part of the Arduino ecosystem.

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Thanks to the MIT Review for this one – the top ten tech trends for 2023: The end of passwords Faster covid variant trackers Long-lasting grid batteries (iron-based) AI for protein folding (AlphaFold2 makes drug design faster) Malaria vaccine (the first-ever vaccination fir a parasitic infection). Proof of Stake (cuts electricity used in transaction verification …

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