AWS customers can now compare any two application configuration versions side by side within AWS AppConfig, a feature of AWS Systems Manager. This new functionality highlights the differences between the changed configuration values in the two versions, and helps Developers and Devops professionals to understand how their configuration data has changed over time. This adds additional safety features when deploying the intended configuration values to mitigate the risk of any application outages.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) version 13.5 for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 13c Release 5. OEM 13c offers web-based tools to monitor and manage your Oracle databases. Amazon RDS for Oracle installs OMA, which then communicates with your Oracle Management Service (OMS) to provide monitoring information. Customers running OMS 13.5 can now manage databases by installing OMA 13.5.

Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Dallas and Philadelphia. Customers can now use these new AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or on-premises installations in Dallas and Philadelphia metro areas.

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Starting today, developers can capture the contents of their Amazon Chime SDK meeting and save them to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket of their choice with media capture pipelines. This new feature captures meeting audio, video, and content share streams in 5 second segments and directly delivers them, along with meeting events and data messages, to developer’s designated S3 bucket.

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ  as an event source, allowing customers to quickly and easily build applications that are triggered from messages in their RabbitMQ queue. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Customers can build applications quickly and easily with Lambda functions that are invoked based on messages posted to Amazon MQ message brokers without needing to worry about provisioning or managing servers.

Arm CEO Simon Segars has put up a rather weasel-worded defence on the Arm blog page of his company’s ownership by Softbank and, potentially, Nvidia. “Under our current owner, SoftBank, we have invested heavily in new chip technologies which allowed us to enter new markets such as 5G networks and cloud computing,” writes Segars. Can …

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The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has passed the final mission analysis review for its launch, the European Space Agency has confirmed. It will launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. It’s an international mission, with the joint NASA-ESA–CSA (Canadian Space Agency) space telescope intended to succeed the Hubble Space …

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Today, the government publishes its Plan for Digital Regulation which aims to reduce red tape and cut down on cumbersome and confusing policy so businesses are freed to come up with new ideas, grow their firms and create new jobs and prosperity. The vision is to drive prosperity through pro-innovation regulation of digital technologies while …

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Farnell’s third annual IoT Survey confirms a rise in IoT for medical applications and  reveals the growing role of IoT for industrial automation and control applications for the delivery of Industry 4.0. The IoT Survey is run annually by Farnell. The top three industry segments leading the way in IoT applications are industrial automation and control …

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Aaeon has introduced a 15.6in industrial touch screen all-in-one PC with a choice of Intel Comet Lake 10th generation Core processors. Dubbed OMNI-2155-CML, these are the first in the Omni family to offer a socketed processor – selected from Core i3, i5, i7, i9 or Celeron up to 35W TDP – alongside which up to 64Gbyte …

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