Copies of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots encrypted under a custom Customer Managed Key (CMK) are now incremental. This means that when you make a new copy of an EBS Snapshot, only the modified chunks compared to the previous copy of the same EBS Snapshot are saved in the new copy. This minimizes the time required to copy the EBS Snapshot and saves on storage costs by not duplicating data for such EBS Snapshots encrypted with custom CMK. This is similar to what we already support for copies of unencrypted EBS Snapshots and copies of EBS Snapshots encrypted under your default CMK.  

You can now use an Amazon EC2 Systems Manager (SSM) parameter in AWS CloudFormation to launch EC2 instances with the latest ECS-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

Amazon Cloud Directory is now available in the Canada (Central) Region.

Starting today, you can create AWS Auto Scaling scaling plans using AWS CloudFormation, a service that allows you to easily provision and update a set of related AWS resources in an orderly and predictable fashion.

Amazon GuardDuty now allows you to setup automatic archiving when creating a findings filter. This is useful when you have a unique use case in your environment that generates many similar findings, or in situations where you have reviewed a certain class of findings and don’t want to be alerted again.

Over 11,000 Aibos – Sony’s robot  dog – have been sold since its January launch which is quite a lot for something costing $1,800. Sony may be trying to promote a Tamagotchi-type craze for Aibo because it is on restricted supply and only sold by a lottery process at Sony stores in Japan. Though Sony now …

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The IGBT market will grow 150% by 2021 as EV production ramps up, says Digitimes Research. 40-50% of the cost of an EV is the battery cost, say the researchers, and the second highest cost – representing 15-20% of the cost of an EV –  is the driving  system. As IGBTs account for half of …

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Panasonic believes the growth of IoT will depend on two wireless technologies, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, writes Pascal Meier.

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Kyocera has licensed its haptic feedback technology to Bosch for use in automotive applications. Kyocera has pursuing  haptic feedback R&D for a decade. Its  HAPTIVITY technology enables a real touch sensation on any human-machine interface.  Kyocera has introduced its HAPTIVITY devices in Japanese, U.S. and European tradeshows, and holds patents on this technology in multiple …

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The latest Raspberry Pi can best be summed up by the old adage of more of the same, writes consultant Tam Hanna.

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