In December, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) released service last accessed data , which shows the time when an IAM entity (a user, group, or role) last accessed an AWS service. This provided a powerful tool to help you grant least-privilege permissions. Starting today, it’s easier to identify where permissions can be reduced based on additional service last accessed data. With this release, you have access to the following for IAM entities and policies:
AWS Config offers a new rule for assessing license compliance and a console in Simplified Chinese
AWS Config Rules is a set of governance capabilities that allow IT Administrators to define guidelines for provisioning and configuring AWS resources and then continuously monitor compliance with those guidelines. You can choose from a collection of AWS managed rules, which are predefined, customizable rules that are based on common best practices. AWS Config now offers a new managed rule that checks Amazon EC2 instances for a specified tenancy (host, dedicated or default). You can provide an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID to check EC2 instances launched only from that AMI and also specify an EC2 Dedicated Host ID to check whether your EC2 instances are launched on that EC2 dedicated host. This rule enables you to assess compliance with your server-bound software licenses by checking whether your EC2 instances are launched on a physical server dedicated to your use.
Amazon SES Now Supports Email Headers in Notifications
Amazon SES can now include the original email headers in the bounce, complaint, and delivery notifications it provides through Amazon SNS. This feature enables you to more easily match a notification to the specific email that triggered it, because the notification can contain the email headers that you used when you passed the email to Amazon SES. Previously, when you wanted to match a notification to a specific sent email, you needed to store a mapping between the email and the message ID that Amazon SES returned when you sent the message. Now, you can add a custom header to the email and then retrieve that custom header from the notification, without storing the message ID on your side. You can include any other custom headers that might be useful to you. For example, resellers can now add client identifiers for improved tracking.
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Premier Farnell sold to Datwyler
Datwyler of Switzerland is to buy Premier Farnell for £792 million. “Both companies share very similar strategic values and are highly complementary in terms of product range, distribution channels and geographic footprint,” says Premier Farnell. The combined group is expected to have £1.3 billion revenues. The two companies employ 4,900 people. Datwyler, with a market …
Four channel remote temperature sensor works to -40°C
Microchip has introduced a four channel temperature sensing IC for use with remote sensing diodes. Called MCP9904, it has advanced features such as resistance error correction as well as beta compensation, the latter to support CPU diodes requiring the BJT/transistor model – those on 45nm processes, for example. “Beta compensation eliminates temperature errors caused by …
Microwave power amplifier comes on line at Aspen
Aspen Electronics is selling RF and microwave solid state power amplifiers designed for both commercial and military applications from US firm Exodus Advanced Communications. Exodus products feature LDMOS, GaN, GaAsFET discrete and chip and wire hybrid modules with amplifier designs covering octave through decade frequency ranges from 0.01MHz to 40.0GHz – with power levels exceeding …
Surge-rated, 24V transient protection on seven lines
Semtech has introduced a 7-line surge-rated, 24V transient protection array for protecting industrial interfaces against transient voltage threats. The µClamp2417P offers a 10A (8×20µs waveform) surge immunity level in a small 2.6 x 2.6mm QFN package. It can be used for protecting industrial data interfaces from electrical transient threats including electrostatic discharge (ESD), electrical fast …
Result: Reader survey on European Union Referendum
Should the UK stay in the EU or leave? Electronics Weekly asked for your views. Ahead of next week’s European Union Referendum, we analyse the results of our reader survey.