Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for instance creation. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy Amazon Connect instances—along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Additionally, you can use AWS CloudFormation to deploy Amazon Connect instances along with other resources within the instance, including users, quick connects, and contact flows. For more information, see Amazon Connect Resource Type Reference  in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region. Fargate allows customers to deploy and manage containerized applications without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. Fargate makes it easier to scale applications and helps improve security through application isolation by design.

AWS Trusted Advisor now supports a new check that recommends options for Microsoft Windows Server end of support (EOS) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The check inspects your Microsoft Windows Server workloads and automatically lists your Microsoft Windows Server instances that are at EOS or nearing EOS. For example, Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 Extended support will end on October 10, 2023 and instances that will reach EOS in less than 18 months will be flagged in the Trusted Advisor console to help customers investigate further. Through the check recommendation, you can find flexible migration, modernization and upgrade options on AWS, based on best practices.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now provides Alert Manager & Ruler logs to help customers troubleshoot their alerting pipeline and configuration in Amazon CloudWatch Logs . Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for container environments. The Alert Manager allows customers to group, route, deduplicate, and silence alarms before routing them to end users via Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). The Ruler allows customers to define recording and alerting rules, which are queries that are evaluated at regular intervals. With Alert Manager and Ruler logs, customers can troubleshoot issues in their alerting pipelines including missing Amazon SNS topic permissions, misconfigured alert manager routes, and rules that fail to execute.

Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for routing profiles in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for routing profiles by name, description, or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for all routing profiles containing “sales” in the description. To learn more about this new API, see the API documentation .

Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for queues in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for queues by name, description, or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for all queues with “priority” in the description. To learn more about this new API, see the API documentation .

In “the Great Resignation” almost 50 million Americans quit their jobs in 2021, hoping for better  options elsewhere. According to job search portal Joblist, one in four workers who quit their previous job say that they regret the decision because, say some,  they quit without having a new job lined up and are now finding …

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Back in 1996, everyone was pretty bullish about the future of implanted tech. BT was predicting: Artificial ears were three years away. Artificial hearts would be with us in 2010 Artificial lungs and kidneys by 2015 Artificial brain cells by 2017 Artificial brain implants by 2025 Artificial legs and eyes by 2030 Artificial brains by …

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Qorvo’s QPA1724 is a packaged high power MMIC amplifier, Ku-K band, fabricated on Qorvo’s production 0.15 um GaN on SiC process (QGaN15).  QPA1724 is targeted for 17.3 – 21.2 GHz Satcom band.  It provides 20 W of saturated output power with 16 dB of large signal gain while achieving 27% power-added efficiency. To simplify system …

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Euroconsult, which specialises in the space sector, has released its latest Ground Segment Market Prospects report, outlining the value of the ground segment ecosystem. The Paris-based consultancy forecasts the cumulated market value – covering all the time period between 2022 to 2031 – as being worth $78bn. This covers the different application chains in both …

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