You can now use AWS PrivateLink in the EU (Paris) Region. AWS PrivateLink allows customers to securely and privately access services hosted on AWS from their Virtual Private Cloud and from on-premises. AWS PrivateLink also allows customers and partners to share services with other accounts and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks in an easy and scalable way.  

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. To more easily enable the voicing of longer text input, Amazon Polly has doubled its character limit for the SynthesizeSpeech API operation. The maximum length of input text can be up to 3000 billed characters, or 6000 total characters including non-billed SSML tags.

Amazon Linux 2 LTS Candidate 2 is the latest release candidate of the next generation Amazon Linux operating system. It incorporates feedback received for the first LTS Candidate (2017.12 build) that was released on December 13, 2017. LTS Candidate 2 provides an updated version of the Linux Kernel (4.14) tuned for optimal performance on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), systemd support, a newer compiler (gcc 7.3), an updated C runtime (glibc 2.26), newer tooling (binutils 2.29.1), and the latest software packages through the extras mechanism.

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , today announced the availability of a new metric – EngineCPUUtilization which provides access to the Redis process CPU utilization to gain better insights into your Redis workloads. As Redis is single threaded and uses just one CPU core at any given point in time, the new metric provides more precise visibility into the load of the Redis process itself.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports creating Application Load Balancers through the AWS Elastic Beanstalk console. Previously, you could only create an Application Load Balancer using AWS SDKs, AWS CLI, and EB CLI. In the Elastic Beanstalk console, you can now choose Application Load Balancer in addition to Classic Load Balancer when you configure your environment. To learn more about configuring an Application Load Balancer on Elastic Beanstalk console, please see the documentation .   

Who’d be Minister for Science? Ed asks his diary, most of the time it’s a doss but it can suddenly erupt into a bed of nails. First the data leak now the nerve agent. The Department’s scientists are supposed to cover the PM’s arse but they’ve  been making a pig’s ear of it on chemical weapons …

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The CEO of the veteran Washington technology lobbying group the Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC) Dean Garfield (pictured), has written to US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to say tariffs don’t work but pressure on China to stop abuse of IP could work. ITIC was founded 98 years ago and members include Apple, Cisco, Dell, eBay, …

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SenseTime of Taiyuan Shi, China, the Qualcomm-backed face recognition specialist, has raised a $600 million Series C financing round to which Alibaba and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek contributed. The company has been growing at 400% a year for the last three years and turned profitable last year.  SenseTime specialises in face recognition technology …

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HiSilicon is reported to be having its latest Kirin processor – the 980 – in volume production on TSMC’s 7nm process later this quarter. TSMC’s 7nm process is scheduled to begin volume production in June with Qualcomm, Xilinx and Apple joining HiSilicon as customers. The Kirin 980 is expected to be first used in the …

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Farnell has signed Nordic Semiconductor to a global distribution agreement. “Farnell’s profile matches Nordic Semiconductor’s requirement to make its Bluetooth 5 and other low power wireless connectivity solutions available to the widest audience” says Nordic’s Geir Langeland, “through the partnership, Nordic’s range of nRF51 and nRF52 Series multiprotocol SoCs, RF protocol stacks and development tools …

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