Amazon EC2 Spot can now hibernate EBS-backed Amazon EC2 C5 and M5 instances in the event of an interruption. Spot instances can fulfill your request by resuming instances from a hibernated state when capacity is available. Hibernate is just like closing and opening your laptop lid, with your application starting up right where it left off.

AWS Config now supports seven new managed rules, which are predefined rules that AWS Config uses to evaluate whether your AWS resource configurations comply with common best practices.

Amazon Connect is now available in the US West (Oregon) AWS Region, increasing the number of AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available to four. The expansion into a new AWS Region provides you more options to provision your Amazon Connect cloud contact center with the other AWS services you use. 

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are a quick and easy way to get started with machine learning. The AMIs with Source Code now come with TensorFlow 1.5.0-rc1 which supports NVidia CUDA 9 and cuDNN 7 drivers that take advantage of the V100 Volta GPUs powering the EC2 P3 instances. The Conda-based Deep Learning AMIs now come with the latest framework versions of Caffe, Keras 2.1.3, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.3.1, and Theano 1.0. The Conda-based AMIs also include TensorBoard for monitoring and debugging a TensorFlow model, and TensorFlow Serving to export TensorFlow models and create a server running a gRPC service for serving the model. Apache MXNet users can now benefit from the MXNet Model Server to quickly deploy an HTTP-based inference API for their models.

You can now use Amazon SageMaker to build, train, and deploy models for applications in the AWS Cloud that are subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. PCI DSS is a proprietary information security standard administered by the PCI Security Standards Council and applies to all entities that store, process or transmit cardholder data and/or sensitive authentication data including merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service providers.

Oman’s Nama Holdings has appointed advisors to assist in privatising a number of its subsidiaries in the electricity sector.

Imagination Technologies has released a GPU core that supports multiple, high resolution displays for automotive displays. As driverless cars evolve, there is expected to be a requirement for advanced infotainment in the vehicle, such as 5G-based 4K video streaming, to keep passengers occupied. The PowerVR Series8XT GT8540 four-cluster IP is designed for display in clusters, …

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Equipment and materials distributor, Inseto, has bought IDB Technologies, a specialist supplier of semiconductor wafers and substrates. Inseto supplies the microelectronic and manufacturing sector, and this acquisition adds to its offering to the semiconductor sector. The two companies worked closely together and share many customers. Matt Brown, director, Inseto, explained the synergy between the two …

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At Davos, the UN Broadband Commission set global broadband targets to bring the 3.8 billion people online.

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Lime Microsystems and  Seed Studio have produced a Starter Kit for  the LimeSDR platform based on the Grove Platform and for use with the Raspberry Pi. The kit is priced at $249 (c. £180 / €200). It includes a LimeSDR Mini with antennas optimised for 433/868/915 MHz unlicensed bands, plus a GrovePi+ and a array …

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