You can now use Amazon Timestream in applications that are subject to System and Organization Control (SOC) compliance. Amazon Timestream  is a fast, scalable, secure, and purpose-built time series database for application monitoring, IoT, and real-time analytics workloads that can scale to process trillions of time series events per day.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Build on AWS, a new offering from AWS Activate designed to help startups build their infrastructure on AWS in minutes. Build on AWS is a collection of infrastructure templates and reference architectures covering a wide variety of solutions curated specifically for startups. These solutions are built by experts at AWS and based on AWS best practices. This enables startups to focus on building their core product knowing they’re using AWS best practices for their underlying cloud infrastructure. With the launch of Build on AWS, we’ve simplified the first steps of launching scalable, reliable, secure, and optimized infrastructure tailored to startups’ industry or use case.

You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS region.

AWS IQ now supports AWS Certified experts and consulting firms located in the UK & France. Quickly find, engage, & get help from experts and consulting firms in UK and France for on-demand work.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)  now supports AWS Graviton2-based  X2g database (DB) instances for MySQL , MariaDB , and PostgreSQL  databases. X2g DB instances offer double the memory per vCPU compared to R6g/R5 instances and the lowest cost per GiB of memory in Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. The X2g.16xl DB instance has 33% more memory than previously available in Amazon RDS DB instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases and is a great choice for memory-intensive DB workloads.

Setting up monitoring and managing the health of your business applications is now even easier with the ability to discover the applications and resources in your account even without a Resource Group, automatically set up monitoring for them and see their health at a glance in a summary health dashboard presented when you complete setup or open CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights is a service that helps customers easily setup monitoring and troubleshoot their enterprise applications running on AWS resources. The new feature makes setting up monitoring for all the resources in your account a truly one step process.

RFID adds convenience to inventory and supply of products, says Dr Brian Cobb; there are also sustainability benefits. Radio frequency identification (RFID) has achieved strong growth in the apparel sector. By adding a unique digital identifier that can be read without line of sight and at a distance from the product, inventory control is smoother …

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Wi-SUN is a flexible wireless standard which could transform how smart cities are connected, says Soumya Shyamasundar.   Smart cities are fast becoming a reality, with new digital and networking technologies helping to connect large numbers of devices, improving quality of life and public safety, and developing more efficient, sustainable use of resources. In the …

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Rare-earth prices are rising steeply delivering a margin hit to many electronics manufacturers, reports the Nikkei. China controls  55% of  rare-earth production capacity and 85% of refining output and is making noises about pushing prices higher. The prices of praseodymium and neodymium used to make permanent magnets Required for speakers have doubled. The price of Neodymium oxide …

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NeoPhotonics has announced a tunable high power FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous-wave) laser module and high power semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) chips. Both components are optimized to enable long range automotive lidar and high resolution industrial sensing applications. The FMCW Laser is C-band tunable and can be directly modulated to provide >21dBm (126mW) fiber coupled power and …

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