Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports Amazon RDS on MySQL Version 8.0. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action.  

AWS Certification is excited to announce the new AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification. It is the first certification to validate expertise in recommending, designing, and maintaining the optimal AWS database solution to improve performance, reduce costs, and enable innovation. You can now schedule the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam at testing centers worldwide for 300 USD. A practice exam is also available for 40 USD.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers tone mapping technology to perform HDR to SDR color space conversion. With this processing, you can create both HDR and SDR outputs from a single HDR master video, without having parallel mezzanine workflows.  

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the public preview of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based Operating System (OS) that is purpose-built to run containers. Bottlerocket comes with a single-step update mechanism and includes only the essential software to run containers. These properties enable customers to use container orchestrators to manage OS updates with minimal disruptions, enabling better uptime for containerized applications and lower operational cost. Currently, Bottlerocket is supported for use with Amazon EKS. Amazon ECS will also be supported soon .

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.15 for all clusters.

Amazon Aurora Global Database is now available for the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora. Aurora Global Database is designed for applications with a global footprint, allowing a single Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions with as many as five secondary Regions, with fast replication to enable low-latency global reads and fast disaster recovery from region-wide outages.

The DRE480 series from Chinfa operates at 94% efficiency, and is designed for utilisation in space-constrained industrial applications. The power supplies are now available from specialist distributor, Relec Electronics. The DIN-Rail mountable supplies are available two in variants, the 24V DRE480-24A and 48V DRE480-48A, with adjustment ranges up to 28V and 56V respectively. In addition …

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ST  is extending the uses of its motion-detection machine-learning core (MLC) technologies into industrial and high-end consumer applications with the  LSM6DSRX 6-axis iNEMO inertial measurement units (IMU). The MLC performs basic AI pre-processing of motion data using about 0.001 times the power a typical MCU would consume to complete the same task. As a result, …

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TI has brought out  its 40-A SWIFT DC/DC buck converter, offering  stackability of up to four ICs. The TPS546D24A PMBus buck converter can deliver up to 160 A of output current at an 85°C ambient temperature. The device’s efficiency allows engineers to reduce power loss by 1.5 W in high-performance data center and enterprise computing, medical, …

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Infineon has received US clearance for its takeover of Cypress Semiconductor. A statement from Infineon reads: ‘On 9 March 2020, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) concluded its review under Section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, of the planned acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation as announced by Infineon Technologies …

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