Amazon Aurora Global Database is a feature of Amazon Aurora. It is designed for applications with a global footprint. It allows a single Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions, with fast replication to enable low-latency global reads and disaster recovery from Region-wide outages. With today’s launch, Amazon Aurora Global Database is available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. Amazon Aurora Global Database customers will now be able to replicate across AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions.

AWS Backup Vault Lock is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. AWS Backup enables customers to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services through a fully managed and cost-effective solution.

Today we are excited to announce the launch of RStudio on Amazon SageMaker, the industry’s first fully managed RStudio integrated development environment (IDE). You can easily bring your current RStudio license and migrate self-managed RStudio environment to
Amazon SageMaker in a few simple steps.

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug  big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Studio Workspaces now support connecting to EMR clusters in different subnets that are associated with EMR Studio.

AWS Security Hub now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so that you can securely initiate API calls to Security Hub from within your VPC without requiring those calls to traverse across the Internet. AWS PrivateLink support for Security Hub is now available in all AWS Regions where Security Hub is available. To try the new feature, you can go to the VPC console, API, or SDK to create a VPC endpoint for Security Hub in your VPC. This creates an elastic network interface in your specified subnets. The interface has a private IP address that serves as an entry point for traffic that is destined for Security Hub. You can read more about Security Hub’s integration with PrivateLink here .

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers the ability to specify an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed key (CMK) from a different account when exporting an Amazon RDS Snapshot to Amazon S3. This option helps customers organize and consolidate their KMS keys by eliminating the need to create keys in each account that has snapshots.

With the Frogs getting arsey over fishing again because they can’t prove they  legally fished in UK waters pre-Brext and don’t want to admit to illegal fishing, we have harsh words, but zero logic, from Macron and his childishly intemperate ministers. The post-Brexit fisheries agreement provided for a transition period until the summer of 2026, …

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Thanks to IDC for this one – the top five smartphone vendors in Q2: Top 5 Smartphone Companies, Worldwide Shipments, Market Share, and Year-Over-Year Growth, Q2 2021 (shipments in millions of units) Company 2Q21 Shipment Volumes 2Q21 Market Share 2Q20 Shipment Volumes 2Q20 Market Share Year-Over-Year Change 1. Samsung 59.0 18.8% 54.0 19.5% 9.3% 2. …

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We are delighted to say – after a pandemic pause for a year – that we are launching EW BrightSparks 2022, our annual programme to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronics engineers in the UK today. We have teamed up again with RS Grassroots to showcase young talent within the industry. EW BrightSparks …

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Melexis, the Belgian automotive IC specialist, has introduced a single-coil pump/fan IC with integrated driver stage. It is intended for applications with high ambient temperature such as automotive water pumps. The MLX90412GLW drives pumps up to 15W in Internal Combustion Engines (ICE). This typically implies a maximum ambient operating temperature up to 135℃. While water …

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