Amazon Redshift offers comprehensive encryption capabilities to protect your data at rest. Now, Amazon Redshift further enhances the experience of encrypting the warehouse with RA3 node types by reducing the overall encryption time and improving the availability of the warehouse during the encryption process.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6gd instances are available in Europe (Paris) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

AWS Lambda now supports starting from a specific timestamp when using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) or Self-Managed Kafka as an event source. Previously, Kafka event source mappings could only have starting positions of trim horizon or latest. Now with starting from a timestamp, you can start processing messages at a precise point in time. This is useful for situations like Disaster Recovery, where you need a new consumer to quickly start processing where you previously left off.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of bandwidth reduction filtering for the AVC and HEVC encoders in AWS Elemental MediaConvert. The bandwidth reduction filter is a perceptual input preprocessing filter which removes temporal noise from video sources while minimizing impact on visual quality. The filter uses human vision system models to reduce imperceptible signals and temporal noise, which often originate from camera sensors.

Today, AWS Purchase Order Management announces the general availability of ‘Attribute-based & Resource-based access control’ for purchase orders (POs) created in the AWS Console. This launch allows you to tag purchase orders (POs) that are created on AWS Console and control access at a resource level with IAM policies. The AWS console also offers the ability to manage resource tags.

Roughly 750 migrants are thought to have been on board the Greek fishing boat which went down in the Mediterranean last week. Before that, The International Organization for Migration’s Missing Migrants website counted 1,166 migrants who had died or gone missing in the Mediterranean in 2023 (up to June 9). Annual figures have been rising …

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The Petoi family of programmable robot dogs has a new member: an ESP32 board powered “Bittle X”, which has the new feature of also being voice controlled.

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As preparation for a commercial launch, Skyrora has 3D printed a new model of its orbital rocket engine ready for landmark tests. The Edinburgh-based rocket company – which has developed its own eco-friendly fuel, Ecosene, made of waste plastics – has begun a series of full-duration tests to qualify the updated design of its 70kN …

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Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD). the GaN-based power IC soecialist, has signed a distribution deal with DigiKey. “This agreement is a significant step for CGD as we are scaling-up the business and building a GaN ecosystem that will help engineers explore and utilise the benefits of ICeGaN for high voltage power conversion,” says CGD chief comnercial …

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ST and  Airbus are to cooperate on the R&D of more efficient and lighter power electronics for hybrid-powered aircraft and full-electric urban air vehicles. The collaboration builds on evaluations already conducted by both companies to explore the benefits of wide bandgap semiconductor materials for aircraft SiC and GaN enable the development of smaller, lighter and …

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