AWS DataSync now provides additional security options when moving data to and from Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). AWS DataSync is an online data movement service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates moving data between on-premises, edge, or cloud storage and AWS Storage services. Amazon EFS is a serverless, fully elastic file system that makes it easy to set up, scale, and cost-optimize file storage in the AWS Cloud. With this launch, DataSync can now access your file systems using EFS Access Points , enabling you to copy data to and from specific datasets. You can also configure DataSync to connect to your EFS file systems using TLS encryption, giving you greater protection of your data in-flight when copying to and from EFS. Additionally, you can configure DataSync with an IAM role for use with your EFS file system policies , giving you greater control over how DataSync accesses your file systems.

AWS Well-Architected Tool now features direct access to AWS re:Post, a community-driven, questions-and-answers service designed to help AWS customers remove technical roadblocks, accelerate innovation, and enhance operation. AWS re:Post has 40+ topics including a community specific to AWS Well-Architected.

AWS Lookout for Metrics announces the launch of the Athena connector , a new connector in Lookout for Metrics that allows you to query data from various data sources such as Data Lake on AWS, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift to ingest into Amazon Lookout for Metrics for anomaly detection. The Athena connector reduces the need to setup complex ETL jobs and data preparation time for anomaly detection. You can query large datasets using standard SQL and analyze it before ingesting in an anomaly detector . The Athena connector supports data formatted in CSV, JSON, ORC (Optimized Row Columnar), Parquet, XML, plain text and AVRO.

Amazon Cognito now enables application developers to propagate IP address as part of the caller context data in unauthenticated calls to Amazon Cognito. When Amazon Cognito’s Advanced Security Features (ASF) are enabled, this feature improves risk calculation and resulting authentication decisions performed in flows such as sign-up, account confirmation, and password change. Prior to this change, the end user IP address was not available in unauthenticated calls if these calls were initiated behind a proxy. With this new feature, developers who build identity micro-services, authentication modules or identity proxies can now leverage APIs to gain visibility into the client’s IP address and utilize them in other security applications to better understand the risk of a particular user activity.

Amazon Timestream is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon). You can now use Amazon Timestream to collect, store, query, and visualize time series data in various applications within your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPC) to help you meet FedRAMP Moderate controls.

You can now use Elastic Volumes to dynamically increase the capacity and tune the performance of your io2 Block Express volumes with no downtime or performance impact, in the same manner as other EBS volumes. Additionally, you can now create a fully initialized io2 Block Express volume from a Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) enabled snapshot. Volumes that are created from FSR-enabled snapshots instantly deliver their provisioned performance. These features add to the capabilities of the highest-performance EBS volume type – io2 Block Express.

22% of the leadership positions of America’s top research universities are filled by women, according the Eos Foundation. For women of colour it’s 5%. These numbers are striking when set against the academic success of women, who achieved more Bachelor’s degrees for the last 40 years, more Master’s degrees for the last 35, and more …

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The European Space Agency has awarded a €5.2m contract to the UK space company Open Cosmos to work on its NanoMagSat mission. NanoMagSat is a planned small satellite constellation aiming to use a novel suite of instruments to monitor the Earth magnetic field and the ionospheric environment. It will succeed the current ESA Swarm satellites …

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Imec’s Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems (SSTS) research program is bringing together stakeholders of the semiconductor value chain, from large system companies such as Apple and Microsoft, to suppliers, including ASM, ASML, KURITA, SCREEN and Tokyo Electron. The program was set up last year as part of imec’s sustainability efforts to support the semiconductor industry reducing …

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Socionext is sampling the “SC1330A” IC for IoT tags to start in July with volume production planned for Q4. The device  was jointly developed by Socionext, ZiFiSense, founder of the ZETA standard for Low Power/Wide Area (LPWA), and Techsor, a board member of the ZETA Alliance in Japan. Mass production is scheduled for this December. The SC1330A is a low …

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