AWS Glue Studio is a new visual interface for AWS Glue that makes it easy for extract-transform-and-load (ETL) developers to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs. You can now use a simple visual interface as well as SQL to compose jobs that move and transform data, and then run them using AWS Glue’s serverless engine. You can use AWS Glue Studio’s job run dashboard to monitor ETL job execution and confirm that your jobs are operating as intended.

AWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Region, extending the footprint to 9 AWS Regions.

AWS Security Hub has released 18 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard  to enhance customers’ cloud security posture monitoring. These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon SQS. If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, these controls are enabled by default. Security Hub now supports 159 security controls to automatically check your security posture in AWS.

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is now HIPAA  (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) eligible. Customer Profiles is designed to automatically bring together customer information from multiple applications and surface it to a contact agent at the moment they begin interacting with a customer. HIPAA eligibility means you can use Customer Profiles to provide agents with the Protected Health Information (PHI) data they need to resolve your customers’ questions or inquiries. You can ingest data from electronic health records (EHR) systems such as Epic, Cerner, and Siemens using Amazon S3 data connectors between EHR systems and Customer Profiles. Amazon Connect has been HIPAA eligible since 2017. Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is also ISO, IRAP certified.

e-books trail paper books by a long way, according to Statista’s Advertising & Media Outlook. In the US, while 23% of people bought an e-book last year, 45% bought a printed book. People may grab an e-reader when they head to the beach or commute to work, but as far as actual books go, there’s nothing …

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Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top ten foundries in Q1:

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Nichia has created an led with the feel of HPS (high-pressure sodium) lighting, it claims. Nichia: HPS lighting can create a nostalgic or elegant atmosphere “Global efforts to phase-out the use of HPS continue to be met with a resistance to using white LED replacements. Due to this lack of a viable and sustainable alternative, …

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Altium, the PCB software company, the IPC Education Foundation (IPCEF) and Arduino are getting together to launch the first student electronics design challenge to engage, educate, and enhance PCB  design capabilities while engaging with environmental challenges. The Innovation for Environmental Change 2021 International Student Design Competition(#PCBeTheChange) engages student teams to help address common environmental concerns …

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Viavi Solutions  today announced collaboration with technology supplier Picocom to provide complete test solutions for validation of Open RAN base station components, including chips, physical layers and protocol stack software, for small cell 5G networks compliant with O-RAN standards. 5G network deployments are now well underway worldwide. Yet, communications service providers (CSPs) are challenged to effectively …

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While the comprehensive technical program for the 2021 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) will be finalized in the fall, the popular IEDM Tutorials and Short Courses are already set. For those who wish to get a jump on learning about the 67th annual IEDM, scheduled for December 11–15, 2021 at the Hilton San Francisco …

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