You can now record configuration changes to AWS Lambda using AWS Config. AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Config, you can track changes to the Lambda function, runtime environments, tags, handler name, code size, memory allocation, timeout settings, and concurrency settings. You can also record changes to Lambda IAM execution role, subnet, and security group associations. In addition, you can now use a managed Config rule to check whether your Lambda functions prohibit public access.

AWS CodeCommit, a fully-managed source control service, is now available in the Europe (Paris) Region. CodeCommit makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) now allow you to convert and migrate IBM Db2 databases on Linux, UNIX and Windows (Db2 LUW) to any DMS supported target . This can accelerate your move to the cloud by allowing you to migrate more of your legacy databases.

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) for easing workload migration to AWS is now available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. 

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the US East (Ohio) Region. DAX delivers fast read performance for your Amazon DynamoDB tables at scale by enabling you to use a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache.

This updated Quick Start builds a highly available, secure global transit network on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 5 minutes. It deploys Aviatrix Controller and Aviatrix Gateways in a central virtual private cloud (VPC) on AWS to manage routing between remote networks (spoke VPCs) in a hub-and-spoke model. A central transit hub VPC that connects spoke VPCs facilitates communication between the spoke VPCs and an on-premises network.

As soon as I heard that fine particulate (PM2.5) pollution particles get into the human bloodstream, I have wondered if they are a cause of brain deterioration. Now a Mexican researcher is proposing a link. I do not have the skills to evaluate the validity of the research but, just in case you have, the …

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One of the nicest logic families ever – HC (and HCT) CMOS – has the marvellous characteristic that someone thought about interfacing its inputs with voltages higher than Vdd early – and created a really nice input protection structure. What is good, is that, by design rather than luck, up to +20mA can be pushed …

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Mission: try Fritzing, the popular maker pcb layout tool, and write about it. Begin…. …. more than an hour later, having downloaded the whole thing twice, and fully updated Ubuntu, nothing to show for it. At one point ‘successfully installed’ even appeared. Consulting the web suggests doing ‘chmod’ to something, whatever that is, and many …

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In a government-industry collaboration on AI, almost £1 billion will be invested in funding 1,000 PhDs by 2025, training 8,000 specialist computer science teachers and developing a Turing Fellowship programme. £300 million will come from private investment, £300 million from government and £400 million out of an existing Development budget.. New investments include: The Japanese …

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