Many of Signify’s new Hue LED luminaires will connect to the Internet, so there’s still a data play. But it’s a reminder that the lighting industry is still tending to illumination, even as reaches for the IoT brass ring.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is introducing the next generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) burstable general-purpose instances, T3. T3 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources and are designed to provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline when needed. T3 instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System which includes a lightweight hardware-accelerated hypervisor, delivering practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to the instances. T3 instances also feature the latest 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processors which combined with the AWS Nitro System result in up to a 30% better price to performance improvement over T2 instances. These new Xeon Scalable processors feature new AVX-512 instructions that can further accelerate performance. T3 instances also support Enhanced Networking with up to 5 Gbps in network bandwidth using the Amazon Elastic Network Adaptor.

This Quick Start deploys a visual effects (VFX) workstation environment with AWS services and Teradici software on the AWS Cloud in about 30 minutes.

Now, it’s easier to use Amazon DynamoDB local, the downloadable version of DynamoDB, to help you develop and test your DynamoDB applications by using the new DynamoDB local Docker image.

With the new DynamoDB local Docker image, you can build and prototype applications quickly by using a version of DynamoDB running in your development environment with all the dependencies and necessary configuration built in. The new Docker image also enables you to include DynamoDB local in your containerized builds and as part of your continuous integration testing. Using DynamoDB local does not require an internet connection and DynamoDB local works with your existing DynamoDB API calls. There are no provisioned throughput, data storage, or data transfer costs with DynamoDB local.

DynamoDB local is now available to download as a self-contained Docker image or a .jar file that can run on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, and other platforms that support Java.

To learn more about the new DynamoDB local Docker image, see the DynamoDB local public repository on Docker Hub .

Amazon Chime call me is a new audio feature that makes it more convenient for you to join Chime meetings by phone. Whether you’re working from home or on the go from any device, you can simply enter your telephone number into the Chime web application, and Chime will call you and add you to the meeting. With the call me feature, you can join your meetings on time, even if you need to join from a telephone and not using the Chime application. Chime also remembers the last number you entered, so you won’t need to re-enter it for future meetings.

AWS CloudFormation now supports AWS PrivateLink , enabling you to use CloudFormation APIs inside of your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and route data between your VPC and CloudFormation entirely within the AWS network.

With AWS PrivateLink, you can provision and use VPC endpoints to access supported services hosted in the AWS Cloud. AWS PrivateLink is a purpose-built technology designed to access AWS services in a highly available and scalable manner, while keeping all the network traffic within the AWS network. By using CloudFormation with Amazon VPC endpoints, your VPC resources can communicate with CloudFormation within the AWS network, which helps you meet your requirements to limit public internet connectivity.

CloudFormation support for AWS PrivateLink is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions.

For more information about PrivateLink, see Accessing Services Through AWS PrivateLink in the Amazon VPC User Guide. For more information on how to create a VPC endpoint, see Interface VPC Endpoints (AWS PrivateLink) in the AWS CloudFormation user guide.

To learn more about AWS CloudFormation, please visit our documentation page .
 

A news S-Series addition to the Cree XP-G3 packaged LED portfolio better suits harsh outdoor environments and repeated switching cycles associated with the IoT, while LG Innotek has launched a violet LED targeting visible-light continuous disinfection.

Amazon ElastiCache adds support for in-place version upgrades for Redis Cluster, the sharded and highly-available Redis. Now you can upgrade your Redis Cluster environments to the latest version without manual steps or application changes. Amazon ElastiCache already supports in-place version upgrades for non-Redis Cluster mode Redis.

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) has increased the request rate limit for a core set of KMS API operations, including Decrypt, Encrypt, GenerateDataKey, GenerateDataKeyWithoutPlaintext, GenerateRandom, and ReEncrypt. The request rate limits have been increased from 1,200 requests per second to 10,000 requests per second in US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) regions. In all other regions where KMS is available, the limits are increased to 5,500 requests per second. These limit increases make it easier for you to scale your KMS operations.

The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 is a U.S. government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. FIPS validated cryptographic modules are used to provide FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints. FIPS is also important for supporting FedRAMP High workloads, as cryptography must be employed in a FIPS-compliant manner throughout a FedRAMP solution in the cloud.

The following AWS services now offer FIPS 140-2 compliant end points in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region:
• Amazon Polly
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon Server Migration Service (SMS)
• Amazon API Gateway

See the FIPS 140-2 webpage for a full list of AWS services with FIPS 140-2 compliant end points.

Learn more with the Cryptographic Module Validation Program and AWS GovCloud (US) FIPS Documentation .