Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) applications. They help you accelerate your time to solution by up to 6x and lower cost to train ML models by up to 40% compared to previous-generation GPU-based instances.

Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere released credential helper version 1.0.5 to include support for X.509 certificates and private keys that are stored in macOS and Windows certificate stores. IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper is a tool that manages the process of signing the CreateSession API with the private key associated with an X.509 end-entity certificate and calls the endpoint to obtain temporary AWS credentials. With this release, you can now use IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper to delegate signing operations to keys stored within those OS-specific certificate stores, without those keys ever leaving those stores; which can improve your security posture. In Windows, both CryptoAPI and Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG) are supported; in macOS, Keychain is supported. 

Enterprises undergoing digital transformation often turn to AWS partners with the expertise of running computing workloads in containers. They are looking for partners who can assess their IT environment, consult on potential application migration from on-premise, refactor from running on single compute instances, integrate with other AWS services or software vendors, help with workload deployment, and operate/optimize the service on their behalf. Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate provide scalable, reliable, and secure container orchestration for both Managed and Serverless approaches.

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) will support MySQL 5.7.40. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, this release is fully compatible with MySQL 5.7.40. Previous Aurora MySQL 2.x versions were compatible with MySQL 5.7.12. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 2 and MySQL 5.7.40 release notes.

AWS CloudFormation announces looping capability with Fn::ForEach intrinsic function . With Fn::ForEach, you can replicate parts of your templates with minimal lines of code. You can use Fn::ForEach to simplify your template layout and make it easier and faster for you and your peers to review your code. Fn::ForEach helps reduce human errors such as updating wrong properties or missing out on updating multiple target properties in your template.

The contact center industry is expanding to meet the needs of their customers. With the rapid growth seen in the industry, more diverse and scalable solutions and products are needed. Essential to supporting the customer and consumer experience is supporting that growth with AWS integrations. The contact center industry can be complex, often addressing multiple needs by customers. Whether it is investments in CRM, advanced workforce engagement or compliance solutions, it’s important that customers know that their investment in Amazon Connect is secure. Validated AWS Partners in the Amazon Connect Ready specialization provide software solutions through Amazon Connect.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports a progress indicator for improved visibility into the storage optimization process. With the progress indicator, you get better visibility into the progress of storage optimization process such as scaling up of storage sizes and changing the storage volumes.

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

Those US chip CEOs lobbying the US government for less restrictions on their China trade, should be wary of fulfilling Lenin’s prophecy that: “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we hang them”. For the chip industry, which has long been based on international interdependence, the current US restrictions are a particular challenge …

The post Better Safe Than Sorry appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

The Motorola Defy Satellite Link – a simple pendant – is a Bluetooth accessory for your smartphone to help bridge any losses in cellular signal, turning instead to a satellite link.

The post Gadget Watch: Motorola Defy Satellite Link appeared first on Electronics Weekly .