Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5 instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. C5 instances, the next generation of the Amazon EC2 Compute Optimized instances powered by 3.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Skylake), were introduced in November 2017. C5 instances are built using a new light-weight hypervisor, Nitro Hypervisor, which provides practically all of the compute and memory resources to customers’ workloads.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5 instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and South America (São Paulo) Regions. M5 instances, the next generation of the Amazon EC2 General Purpose compute instances, were introduced in November 2017 to offer a balance of compute, memory, storage and networking resources for a broad range of customers’ workloads.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to dynamically get the latest ECS-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID when creating a cluster made up of EC2 instances.

AWS Glue updated its Apache Spark infrastructure to support Apache Spark 2.2.1. This allows you to take advantage of stability fixes and new features available in this version of Apache Spark.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now supports AWS PrivateLink. This feature helps to protect your messages from internet traffic by enabling you to use Amazon SNS inside your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

AWS CloudFormation StackSets now allows you to create multiple roles in which your users can perform stack set operations in target accounts. This allows you to restrict specific sets of users from using stack set operations such as creating or updating stack sets in specific target accounts. Please see the documentation to learn more about creating multiple roles.

One year-old lithium-ion diagnostic startup Akkurate of Turku Finland, which specialises in the testing, optimising, and analysing of lithium batteries, has raised €500,000. Investors include Finnish Lifeline Ventures, Suffice International from Hong Kong and the Lappeenranta University of Technology investment company Green Campus Innovations.  The start-up was born out of Microsoft’s takeover of Nokia. “The …

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Toshiba’s new boss has an interesting dilemma. Should Toshiba stick to its word and flog its memory unit to Bain/Hynix for $18 billion? Or should it kick Bain/Hynix into the long grass on the legalistic pretext that the China competition guys  didn’t OK the deal by March 31st which was a contractual condition for the …

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The FPBB rail filter from Schurter is a 25 mm wide double-stage, single phase filter.  Space can be a scarce commodity on a panel, particularly panel designs in control cabinets for industrial machinery.  Densely populated interference generating components, such as switching power supplies or inverters, can further complicate design when high performance filters are required …

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Patent filings suggest there could be foldable smartphones from half a dozen or more vendors this year, reports Digitimes Research. According to Strategy Analytics, unit  shipments of foldable smartphones are expected to be 700,000 units in 2019, 30.4 million in 2021 and 50.1 million in 2023. Samsung, LG, Apple, Lenovo, ZTE and Oppo are all reported …

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