Today, we are announcing that Amplify Geo for Android is now generally available, following the release of Amplify Geo for JavaScript and iOS. Amplify Geo for Android allows developers to add cloud-connected UI components for maps and location search to Android apps. In addition to AWS Amplify’s features like Auth, DataStore, and Storage, Amplify Geo provides a set of client libraries built on top of Amazon Location Service APIs, and includes cloud-connected map UI components that are based on the popular MapLibre open-source library.

Amazon MQ now provides support for ActiveMQ 5.16.4. This update to ActiveMQ contains several fixes and enhancements compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.16.3

Amazon DevOps Guru now provides Proactive Insights that helps you to increase availability, improve performance and optimize utilization of your application resources. Proactive monitoring is key to flagging potential issues with your applications and infrastructure early, enabling you to respond quickly and reduce costly downtime. Amazon DevOps Guru uses machine learning (ML) to analyze application resources, configurations and application metrics to identify potential future operational issues to prevent them from impacting your users and increase application uptime.

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. The Amazon Chime SDK has achieved FedRAMP High authorization for AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. U.S. government agencies and contractors can now use Amazon Chime SDK to build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High authorization. 

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Box connector to index and search documents from Box.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using the Amazon EKS console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and EKS API to install and manage the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Operator. This launch enables a simplified experience for instrumenting your applications running on Amazon EKS to send metrics and traces to multiple monitoring services including AWS X-Ray, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and Amazon CloudWatch. 

Three new managed data identifiers have been added to Amazon Macie to expand its capabilities for discovering and identifying the locations of HTTP Basic Authentication Headers, HTTP Cookies, and JSON Web Tokens present in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Knowing if and where these types of data are present in your S3 storage helps you to better plan the data security, governance, and privacy needs of your organization.

You can now try Amazon Neptune for free with a 1-month free trial. First-time Neptune customers can get started with Neptune for free for 30 days, using up to 750 hours of the T3.medium instance, 10 million I/O requests, 1 GB of storage, and 1 GB of backup storage.

You can now schedule live content into a linear channel created using Channel Assembly with AWS Elemental MediaTailor. You could already re-use transcoded and packaged HLS and DASH streams from your existing video on demand (VOD) catalogs and now you can use live streams from an origin such as AWS Elemental MediaPackage as scheduled sources for a linear channel.

How cool is this? An excellent RetroPie-based enclosure, in a Switch Lite form factor, built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. The Raspberry Pi team take up the story of the Gadget Master “StonedEdge”.

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