Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Connect  is available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces additional capabilities for exploratory data analysis (EDA) with advanced visualizations, enabling you to explore and analyze your data better before building machine learning (ML) models. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. 

Seekable OCI (SOCI) is a technology open sourced by AWS that enables containers to launch faster by lazily loading the container image. SOCI works by creating an index (SOCI Index) of the files within an existing container image. This index is a key enabler to launching containers faster, providing the capability to extract an individual file from a container image before downloading the entire archive.

AWS Fargate (Fargate), the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), recently announced the migration of service quotas from the current Amazon ECS task and Amazon EKS pod count-based quotas to vCPU-based quotas. The migration to vCPU quotas will not have any impact on your running tasks and pods.

You can now deliver Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs directly to Amazon Kinesis Firehose, allowing you to stream your flow logs real-time to destinations supported by Amazon Kinesis Firehose  or downstream logging solutions  via custom HTTP endpoints.

AWS Security Hub has released 2 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP)  to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for AWS Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, these controls are enabled for you automatically. Security Hub now supports 225 security controls to automatically check your security posture in AWS.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is launching a public preview of message data protection, a new set of capabilities for Amazon SNS Standard Topics that leverage pattern matching, machine learning models, and data protection policies to help security and engineering teams facilitate real-time data protection in their applications that use Amazon SNS to exchange high volumes of data.

China has been complaining a lot lately about the USA putting obstacles to China’s progress towards spawning a technically advanced chip industry. The $250 billion Chips Act and science-related spending  will “disrupt international trade and distort global semiconductor supply chains,” complained Wang Wenbin of China’s foreign ministry, adding “China firmly opposes that.” Wang said the …

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One of the greatest inventive geniuses the world has ever seen got some predictions fabulously wrong. He thought, for instance, that all furniture would come to be made from steel. He said: “The baby of the 21st century will be rocked in a steel cradle; his father will sit in a steel chair at a …

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Scintil Photonics, a supplier silicon photonics ICs  with monolithically integrated lasers and optical amplifiers has completed a second investment round taking its total funding to €19m. New investors were Applied Ventures ITIC Innovation Fund, L.P., a fund jointly created by Applied Ventures, LLC and ITIC-Taiwan (Industrial Technology Investment Corporation). Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC) led …

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