Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now lets you add automated safeguards for rolling updates of Amazon ECS services in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now monitor and automatically react to changes during an Amazon ECS rolling update by using Amazon CloudWatch alarms. This allows you to more easily automate discovery and remediation for failed deployments and minimize the impact of a bad change.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory in additional regions. This feature provides the benefits of single sign-on and centralized authentication of Oracle Database users. Keeping all of your user credentials in the same Active Directory will save you time and effort as you will now have a centralized place for storing and managing them for multiple DB instances.

Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which enables customers to monitor their web applications by collecting client side performance and error data in real time, is generally available in the following 5 AWS Regions starting today: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE).

Today, myApplications in the AWS Management Console has expanded the ability to create and manage your applications to 9 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich).

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now collects the query execution plans of the resource-intensive SQL queries in Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and stores them over time. It helps you identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of performance degradation or stalled query.

How much, if at all, do you think being [An only child / the oldest sibling / a middle child / the youngest sibling] has shaped your personality? The question …

The post The Effects Of Birth Order appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

If all continues to go well, in about a year from now, the first satellite ever to contain scientific instruments designed, built and inspired in Britain will be placed in …

The post UK’s first satellite a year away from launch appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

Silicon Labs is aiming at battery-free harvested energy applications with xG22E, a family of wireless microcontrollers covering Bluetooth Low Energy, 802.15.4 or proprietary 2.4 GHz links. “As Silicon Labs’ most …

The post Silicon Labs crafts wireless MCUs for harvested power appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

Mouser and ADI have published an eBook focusing on how production facilities can achieve greater throughput, product quality, and cost-efficiency than ever before through a flexible manufacturing approach. In 10 …

The post Mouser and ADI publish eBook on flexible manufacturing appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

ST’s LDH40and LDQ40 voltage regulators for automotive and industrial applications start-up from an input as low as 3.3V, operate with up to 40V applied, and have low quiescent current. The …

The post LDOs for energy conscious applications appeared first on Electronics Weekly .