Today we are announcing general availability of NICE EnginFrame 2021.0. NICE EnginFrame is an easy-to-use, web front-end that makes HPC job submission and management easier for customers. With this latest release, customers are able to use NICE EnginFrame across both on-premises and AWS environments using its new AWS HPC Connector feature. Where customers may have previously used NICE EnginFrame for these tasks on-premises and separately managed AWS resources for HPC using the AWS CLI or AWS Management Console, NICE EnginFrame customers can now manage all of these HPC workflows across both their on-premises and AWS environments using a single, unified interface.

Amazon Pinpoint now includes a one-time password (OTP) management feature. An OTP is an automatically generated string of characters that authenticates a user for a single login attempt or transaction. The OTP feature makes it easier to add OTP workflows to your application, site, or service. You can use this feature to generate new OTP codes and send them to your recipients as SMS text messages. Your applications can then call the Amazon Pinpoint API to validate that the OTP code the recipient entered is valid. 

You can now send AWS WAF logs directly to a CloudWatch Logs log group or to an Amazon S3 bucket. With this launch, we’re adding two new optional destinations for WAF logs in addition to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, which was already supported. When you use CloudWatch Logs as your WAF log destination, you can search and analyze WAF logs directly in the WAF console using CloudWatch Logs Insights. Using CloudWatch Logs Insights, you can view individual logs, compile aggregated reports, create visualizations, and construct dashboards.

Fleet Manager, a feature in AWS Systems Manager (SSM) that helps IT Admins streamline and scale their remote server management tasks, now offers an easy console-based experience for customers to view and manage processes on their instances. This new feature provides customers a consolidated view of the processes running on an instance coupled with the ability to assess their resource consumption in real-time and optimize operations through start/stop actions.

Today, we are releasing a new feature in AWS AppSync that allows customers to use custom domain names with their AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs.

AWS Graviton2-based R6g database instances are now available in Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Stockholm) regions for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition .

Amazon S3 File Gateway now enables you to force-close locked files on SMB file shares on Amazon S3 File Gateway by providing access to local security groups. Amazon S3 File Gateway provides on-premises applications with file-based, cached access to virtually unlimited cloud storage using SMB and NFS protocols. End users and applications using files on SMB shares, may stop working on those files without closing them. This leaves the files in an open, or locked, state. Until now, gateway administrators did not have permissions to close these files.

Confusion never did an opportunist any harm, Ed confides to his diary, and I have formulated an earner for the festive season. Anxiety about China, Russia, new bugs, weather and Christmas needs a palliative and, as Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce, I have put in hand arrangements to have substantial stocks of fizzy white …

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If you are trying to make sense of high-speed Timer 4 on Microchip’s (Atmel’s) ATmega 32U4, someone called dmm47 has put a useful little resource onto the Arduino forum. At the very minimum, it saves you typing in all the register names, and saves you missing out a register. This is not a universal resource, but …

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