All data, all the time: The company’s new Interact system continuously collects and analyzes information gathered from lighting and other sources.

You can now customize the configuration of your Amazon SageMaker notebook instance, and choose to disconnect your notebook instance from the internet.

Amazon Redshift increases the number of tables you can create to 20,000 for 8xlarge cluster node types. Doubling the number of tables gives you more control and granularity for organizing data in your cluster.

Amazon Redshift Spectrum is now available in two additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and South America (Sao Paulo).

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaTailor supports the Video Player-Ad Interface Definition (VPAID) standard. VPAID allows video publishers to serve highly interactive video ads and collect viewing metrics from their monetized streams. You can now use AWS Elemental MediaTailor to serve a combination of server-side stitched linear ads, using the VAST standard, and client-side inserted interactive ads, using the VPAID standard, in the same stream.

Amazon SageMaker now includes support for ml.p3.2xlarge instances for data exploration and pre-processing in your Jupyter notebooks. Amazon SageMaker ml.p3.2xlarge instances are powered by an NVIDIA Volta GPU, which delivers up to 125 trillion single-precision floating-point operations per second, to enable you to execute faster in-notebook training.  

Today we’re announcing that the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) provides customers with more assurance around the secure use and management of their keys. Customers now get assurance that keys are created and used by hardware security modules (HSMs) in KMS that meet Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 requirements. Customers can also choose to make requests of KMS using API endpoints that terminate TLS sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module.

You can now use Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. NAT Gateway is a highly available AWS managed service that makes it easy to connect to the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Previously, you needed to launch a NAT instance to enable NAT for instances in a private subnet. 

The PM is becoming positively Churchillian, Ed tells his diary, the way she’s standing up to Putin makes the Continentals look timid. We lead Europe in containing  the Russkies, not the Brussels bureaucrats, not the Germans and not the French. And, strange as it may seem, some of the Continentals are admiring us for it. …

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Paul Jacobs (pictured), son of Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs, who stepped down as execurive chairman last week, will not be re-nominated to the Qualcomm board when it meets for the company’s AGM on March 23rd. Jacobs told the board that he was looking at taking Qualcomm private and had talked to various possible sources of …

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