New types of optical devices could be made using perovskites, say researchers at the UC Davis. “They are ‘smart materials’ that can be tuned to respond to a stimulus in …

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Fujitsu has applied to Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO) to join a project to design and fab a 1.4nm NPU. The chip would be fabbed by …

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A report compiled by WE United brings together publicly available research, data and statistics to examine what it says are six key areas influencing leadership progression for women in the …

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Intel is to buy back the 49% stake in its Fab 34 at Leixlip (pictured), which was sold to Apollo Global Management in 2024. Apollo paid $11.2bn for its stake …

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Samtec is offering in-house upscreen testing services for mission-critical applications. This new service is primarily designed for military and aerospace customers, and the testing is specifically designed for customers using …

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Distributor Mouser Electronics is shipping the new PIC32CM PL10 low-power Arm Cortex-M0+ based microcontrollers (MCUs) from Microchip Technologies. The PIC32CM PL10 series is claimed to offer a balanced combination of …

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AWS Direct Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling infrastructure-as-code provisioning of Direct Connect resources. This integration allows you to define your entire Direct Connect topology in CloudFormation templates alongside other AWS resources, enabling repeatable, version-controlled deployments with drift detection and change management capabilities. You can now automate creation and management of connections, virtual interfaces, Direct Connect gateways, Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs), and BGP peering configurations.

CloudFormation support for Direct Connect is available in all AWS Regions globally.

To get started, visit the AWS CloudFormation and AWS Direct Connect documentation.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, now supports Multi-Region replication in AWS Opt-In regions. This expands the existing Multi-Region replication capability to additional AWS regions, eliminating the need to create and manually synchronize independent directories in each region and allowing domain-joined workloads in those regions to connect to AWS Managed Microsoft AD.

With automated Multi-Region replication, AWS Managed Microsoft AD handles inter-region networking, deploys domain controllers in separate Availability Zones per region, and replicates all directory data including users, groups, Group Policy Objects, and schema. The service configures an Active Directory site per region to optimize authentication performance and minimize cross-region data transfer costs. 

Multi-Region replication is available in AWS Opt-In regions  where AWS Managed Microsoft AD is available, except the Middle East (UAE) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. You pay by the hour for the domain controllers in each region, plus the cross-region data transfer.  To get started, see the Configure Multi-Region replication guide .

Today, Oracle Database@AWS (ODB@AWS) announced high performance networking that provides customers consistent sub-millisecond roundtrip latency from their AWS applications to the database. Many applications such as payment processing, securities trading, and high volume transaction processing require predictable and consistent low-latency network connectivity to the application database. Customers who run such latency-sensitive applications on Oracle Exadata systems on-premises optimize their infrastructure to obtain the performance that these applications require. With high performance networking for ODB@AWS, customers can now seamlessly migrate these applications to an equivalent optimized environment on AWS.

ODB@AWS automatically provides consistent and predictable low-latency network connectivity from Amazon EC2 instances to ODB@AWS databases through optimized placement of compute instances. When customers create an ODB@AWS network for their databases, they can now launch placement optimized Amazon EC2 instances with consistent, sub-millisecond latency network connectivity to their databases using existing Amazon EC2 APIs and workflows, such as launching new EC2 instances, or reserving compute capacity with EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations. There is no additional charge for EC2 instances using optimized placement for connectivity to ODB@AWS databases.

The feature is available in the US-East-2 (Ohio), CA-Central-1 (Canada Central), EU-Central-1 (Frankfurt), EU-West-1 (Dublin), AP-Northeast-1 (Tokyo), and AP-Southeast-2 (Sydney) AWS Regions, with more Regions coming soon. For more information, see High performance networking for Oracle Database@AWS .

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides access to a wide selection of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies through a single API. Today, Amazon Bedrock expands structured outputs support to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Structured outputs enables foundation models to return consistent, schema-compliant, machine-readable responses—making it well-suited for government and regulated workloads that must meet strict compliance and data handling requirements.

Structured outputs helps with common production tasks, such as extracting key fields and powering workflows that use APIs or tools, where even minor formatting errors can break downstream systems. By ensuring schema compliance, it reduces the need for custom validation logic and lowers operational overhead by minimizing failed requests and retries—so you can confidently deploy AI applications that require predictable, machine-readable outputs. You can use structured outputs either by defining a JSON schema that describes your desired response format or by using strict tool definitions to ensure a model’s tool calls match your specifications.

Structured outputs is now generally available in all commercial AWS and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions  where Amazon Bedrock is supported. To learn more about structured outputs and the supported models, visit the Amazon Bedrock documentation.