AWS CodeDeploy now supports using Application Load Balancers for both blue/green and in-place deployments. With this update, you can choose between a Classic Load Balancer and an Application Load Balancer for your deployment groups. For blue/green deployments, CodeDeploy re-routes the traffic from instances in the original environment to those in the replacement environment. For in-place deployments, using a load balancer with CodeDeploy increases the fault tolerance of your application as it prevents traffic from being routed to instances that are currently being deployed to. For more information, see Integrating AWS CodeDeploy with Elastic Load Balancing . 

Using new Amazon Redshift ODBC and JDBC drivers, you can view external Redshift Spectrum tables in your existing SQL client and BI tools. Download the new drivers from the Connect client tab on the Amazon Redshift Management Console .

You can now use the new Amazon Redshift database authentication to simplify the credential management of database users. You can configure Amazon Redshift to automatically generate temporary database credentials based on permissions granted through an AWS IAM policy. You can leverage your corporate directory and third-party SAML-2.0 identity provider, such as ADFS, PingFederate and Okta, to enable your users to easily access their Amazon Redshift clusters using their corporate user names, without managing database users and passwords. Furthermore, database users are automatically created at their first login based on their corporate privileges. The new Amazon Redshift ODBC and JDBC drivers support Windows Integrated Authentication for a simplified client experience. This feature is supported starting with Amazon Redshift ODBC driver version 1.3.6.1000 and JDBC driver version 1.2.7.1003. For more information, see Using IAM Authentication to Generate Database User Credentials in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.

You can now provision AWS Batch resources using AWS CloudFormation, a service that gives you an easy way to deploy and update resources in an orderly and predictable fashion. AWS CloudFormation streamlines the process of creating and managing AWS Batch deployments across multiple AWS accounts and regions.

We are pleased to announce the launch of two additional edge locations for Amazon CloudFront, Chicago, Illinois and Frankfurt, Germany. Chicago now has two edge locations while Frankfurt now has six. Each new edge location improves CloudFront’s performance and availability experienced by your application’s end-users.

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Samsung says it has produced a Terabit 3D NAND flash memory which will be in production next year. Samsung’s intention is to stack 16 Tbit die to deliver a 2TB memory in a chip package. The Tbit chip has 96 layers and four-bit-per-cell (QLC) technology.

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Toyota, Intel, Denso, Ericsson and DoCoMo have formed  the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium aimed at the processing of big data in connected car automotive applications. In 2025, the amount of data being sent from cars to the cloud will be 10 Exabytes a month, says Toyota. The poblem is how to implement that without the …

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Cavium is supporting the newly ratified NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe) 1.0 standard.

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Google’s plan to build a tech complex next to its offices in King’s Cross gets approval by the local council.

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