The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces general availability of Open ID Connect (OIDC) support in SAM CLI Pipelines. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. SAM Pipelines make it easier to create continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for serverless applications with Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines, and AWS CodePipeline. SAM Pipelines comes pre-packaged with a set of default pipeline templates for all supported systems that showcase AWS best practices for secure, multi-account, and multi-region deployments.

AWS Glue includes crawler s based on Amazon S3 Event Notifications , a capability that make discovering datasets simpler by scanning only data based on events in Amazon S3. The Glue crawler extracts the data schema and automatically populates the AWS Glue Data Catalog, which keeps the metadata current. By crawling datasets based on S3 events, this reduces the time to insight by making newly ingested data quickly available for analysis with your favorite analytics and machine learning tools.

Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between an existing Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora database and an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instance. From the Amazon RDS console, you can choose an action to set up connection between your RDS or Aurora database and an EC2 instance. Amazon RDS automatically sets up your related network settings to enable a secure connection between the EC2 instance and the RDS database.

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions.

We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Hindi and Dutch. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With these new languages, you can build and expand your conversational experiences to better understand and engage your customer base.

39 years ago a Ferrari pulled out of the car park of a Los Gatos personal computer company, spun out of control, ploughed through 20 foot of guard rail and plunged into a ravine. The car’s owner, the company president, was instantly killed. A few hours beforehand, his company had IPO’d making his stock worth …

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In its latest  World Economic Outlook, the IMF now projects global GDP to grow 3.2% this year and 2.7% in 2023 – the latter marking a 0.2 percentage point downgrade from the July forecast. With more than a third of the global economy expected to contract this year or next, “2023 will feel like a recession” …

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Würth Elektronik has extended its portfolio of coaxial connectors, rounding off its already comprehensive Coax Connector Portfolio. The SMA connectors are specifically designed for a frequency range up to 18 GHz at an impedance of 50 Ω. Thanks to their threaded coupling technology, they are suitable as data lines in environments subject to strong vibration. …

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NASA has confirmed the success of its DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, to see if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course. We previously reported that a collision had taken place, but now Nasa has confirmed that the moonlet selected for impact has been affected in …

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Antenova has come up with an antenna for the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee frequencies at 2.4 – 2.5 GHz. This new antenna is named Invicta, part number SRFW082. The Invicta antenna averages efficiency of 70% across the 2.4 GHz band. Consequently designs using this antenna will operate better, over longer distances and through walls and obstacles, …

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