Today, we are announcing new functionality in AWS Control Tower that provides you the flexibility to use your existing security and logging accounts, or to have AWS Control Tower create new accounts on your behalf when setting up Control Tower or extending Control Tower governance to your existing AWS environment. The Security account is used as a restricted account that’s designed to give your security and compliance teams read and write access to all accounts in your landing zone. The Logging account works as a repository, storing logs of API activities and resource configurations from all accounts in your landing zone. 

AWS Glue can now connect to Apache Kafka using additional client authentication mechanisms. AWS Glue now supports SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) using either SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) or GSSAPI (Kerberos).

Amazon Neptune is now in scope for FedRAMP  High in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions, and FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can now use Amazon Neptune to build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High or Moderate authorization. This also accredits Amazon Neptune as a Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Level 2 (DoD SRG IL-2) service in these regions.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I4i metal instances are available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Regions – US East (Ohio and N. Virginia), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland). Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 30% better compute price performance over I3 instances, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). I4i metal instances deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 and are designed for databases such as MySQL, Oracle DB, and Microsoft SQL Server, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Couchbase, Aerospike, and Redis where low latency local NVMe storage is needed in order to meet application service level agreements (SLAs).

Green hydrogen is the fuel of the future, Ed confides to his diary, and I want a stake in it. My cunning plan is to use my local village as an early adopter. That gives me the opportunity to get early access to supplier contracts, R&D grants and government subsidies. These are munificent. There’s already …

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Learn how Olympus PRECiV software speeds-up detection and improves repeatability

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Toshiba has had offers from ten potential buyers, reports the Nikkei, after agreeing to shareholder demands that it should consider outside bids for the company. “The management will carefully consider various options and make a decision that will be best for the company,” said CFO Masayoshi Hirata. Toshiba says it has set aside $77 million …

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Google has announced the second Beta of its Android 13 mobile operating system. It says the release concentrates on “core themes of privacy and security” as well as developer productivity. For example, it’s added a new permission for sending notifications, a privacy-protecting photo picker (letting you select the exact photos or videos you want to share), …

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ST has revealed its ambition to be a $20 billion revenue company by 2025-27. Last year the company had revenues of €12.8 billion and this year, says CEO Jean-Marc Chery (pictured), the company is on track for revenues of €15 billion with a gross margin of 46% and an operating margin of 24-26%. In 2025-7, …

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Samsung is reported to be talking to foundry customers about a rise in prices of between 15% and 20% to take effect in H2. Last week it was revealed that TSMC had proposed single digit price rises to customers. The brunt of the prices increases is sis to be falling on Samsung is said to …

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