Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere single-node clusters on bare metal. With single-node Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters, the cluster management components run alongside your applications on a single bare metal server.

Today, Amazon Nimble Studio announces persistent storage has moved from public preview to general availability. This means faster workstation startup times, and simplified workstation storage volume management for administrators. Additionally, Nimble Studio now supports configurable gp3 AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, providing up to a 20% lower price point per GB than existing gp2 volumes. Customers can scale volume size, IOPS (input/output operations per second) and throughput, and only pay for the resources they need.

Today, Amazon Neptune announces support for JupyterLab 3 on Neptune notebooks to boost the productivity of developers and data scientists using the Neptune Workbench. With this update, you can now launch Neptune notebooks in the AWS Management console using JupyterLab to access a modern interactive development environment (IDE) complete with developer tools such as code authoring, debugging, and support for the latest open source JupyterLab extensions. 

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports a new feature to import your on-premises virtual machine (VM) images to AWS with a console-based experience for generating Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from your VM image that you have built to meet your IT security, configuration management, and compliance requirements. With this new feature in AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator, you can automate the manual tasks like the validation of pre-requisites to save time and effort, specify correct license type for bring-your-own-licenses (BYOL) use, and easily track the status of VM import process in the console. 

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today we are introducing a new account-level vCPU-based quota. The account-level per Region vCPU-based quota allows you to control the maximum number of aggregated vCPUs your applications are able to scale up to within a Region. Configuring such quotas can help you avoid runaway workloads or inefficient queries. 

If you’re in Barcelona for Christmas you’re in luck – it has three of the top ten bars in the world, according to The World’s Top 50 Bars, by William Reed. The ranking is based on the votes of more than 600 industry experts from around the world, from bartenders and cocktail connoisseurs to consultants …

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Lionel Messi took to the pitch on Sunday for his 26th time in a World Cup tournament, which means he has now overtaken the ranks of Lothar Matthäus and Miroslav Klose. He is now also the player with the most goal assists in World Cup tournaments since data collection began in 1966. He has 13 goals …

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SWOT, a UK-backed mission to observe huge swathes of ocean and surface water in unprecedented detail has launched into space. Dubbed SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography), the international mission‘s satellite took off from Vandenberg in California on 16 December. It is the first to measure all the water on earth both on land and …

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UK tech companies raised £24 billion in 2022, according to Dealroom, more than France (£11.8 billion) and Germany (£9.1 billion). This takes the total raised over the past five years to nearly $100 billion (£97 billion). The UK has created 144 unicorns and 237 futurecorns and over 85,000 startups and scale-ups. The UK tech sector now …

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Farnell has introduced a six-week winter sales initiative that challenges participants to save “Thermopolis”, a virtual city that is no longer able to manage its resources, running the risk of compromising its sustainability. Farnell customers who accept the challenge can join in online and be given access to special offers and discounts in exchange for ideas …

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