You can now use the Resource Groups Tagging API to centrally manage tags and search resources for 6 additional AWS Services: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Certificate Manager Private CA, AWS IoT Analytics, Amazon Aurora, and AWS Service Catalog.

Starting today, you can create Amazon RDS for Oracle database instances with up to 32TiB of storage. Existing database instances using SSD-backed storage can also be scaled up to 32TiB storage without any downtime

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Today, we are releasing support for creating tables using the results of a Select query or support for Create Table As Select (CTAS) statement . Analysts can use CTAS statements to create new tables from existing tables on a subset of data, or a subset of columns, with options to convert the data into columnar formats, such as Apache Parquet and Apache ORC, and partition it. Athena automatically adds the resultant table and partitions to the Glue Data Catalog, making them immediately available for subsequent queries. By default, CTAS statements in Athena write data in Parquet format. Other supported formats include Apache ORC, AVRO, JSON, and Text, with options to use Gzip or Snappy as compression formats. You can also bucket your data by columns or choose to encrypt it.

AWS Systems Manager now provides more control on the patching workflow by adding the ability to define exactly what patches are approved for deployment and for how long those approved patches should be used for patching operations.

You can now create read replicas for an Amazon Aurora database in up to five AWS regions. This capability is available for Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility.

You can now view, manage, and monitor your serverless applications directly from the AWS Lambda console using the new Applications menu. This allows you to perform application level actions such as viewing all resources that together make up your application, and monitoring performance, errors, and traffic metrics for the application.

ST has introduced an upgraded STLINK-V3 probe for programming and debugging STM8 and STM32 microcontrollers. The probe now has mass-storage support, a virtual COM port with multipath bridge, and three-times faster write performance. In addition to providing typical JTAG/Serial-Wire Debug (SWD) and Single-Wire Interface Module (SWIM) connections, STLINK-V3’s Virtual COM Port (VCP) and multipath bridge allow …

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Amphenol RF has introduced the small form factor AMC4 connector as part of an SMA cable assembly line. This assembly features the SMA bulkhead jack connector and the AMC4 plug connector on 1.13mm cable. The SMA to AMC4 cable assembly is suitable for IoT applications which require space efficient, economical designs. These SMA to AMC4 …

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u-blox and Play Inc collaborate on a connected GPS padlock for industrial applications.

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RoboSense, the Chinese LiDAR specialist, has received $45 million in funding fromg Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, the logistics arm of the Alibaba Group; SAIC Motor Group(Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation), and BAIC Group (Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co.) electric vehicle company. With an over 50% market share of all LiDAR sold in Asia, RoboSense is the …

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