You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor all of your Amazon GameLift resources and react to emergent issues in real-time. With CloudWatch, you can create at-a-glance dashboards to better understand player behavior and game performance. You can also create custom alarms to help identify issues before they impact your players. Amazon GameLift metrics are automatically available in CloudWatch as long as your fleet is active. 

You can now choose how AWS CodeDeploy handles files on an instance that were not part of the previous deployment. Previously, CodeDeploy would fail the deployment when it detected a discrepancy between the files present at a target location and those in the last successful deployment. Now, you can choose how CodeDeploy responds (e.g., fail the deployment, retain the content, or overwrite the content) when encountering such files for each deployment.

Projects are planned across all eight of Aqua’s states.

 

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

 

ARM had revenues of $1.27 billion in the year to the end of March 2017 – up 22% on the previous 12 months’ revenues. They are the first financial figures for ARM to be published since its takeover by Softbank last July. Adjusted earnings were up 7% at £604 million. The number of employees in …

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Toshiba has introduced a 40V/3.0A stepper-motor control IC that requires no external current-sense resistors. The TB67S508FTG stepper-motor controller has on-chip current sensing. As a result it can eliminate the effects of resistor-tolerance errors, ensuring greater accuracy (+/-5%) and uniformity, says the supplier. The transistors of the output bridge have very low on-resistance of 0.45Ω (typical, …

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A second cyber attack using the tools developed by the CIA and dumped on the WikiLeaks site in the Vault7 incident is expected today.

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Western Digital has initiated an arbitration procedure over its bid for Toshiba’s chip business. The arbitration will be heard by the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration This procedure, which could take months, could delay the auction which was planned for this month. However, this morning, in Tokyo, Toshiba CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa said the …

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Digital networks can improve employee productivity by avoiding the confusion of needing separate networks for A/V and IP, writes Andy Hill In a working environment where power availability, audio/visual technology and video functionality work seamlessly together, the result is increased employee productivity. While a connected infrastructure is not the only component that makes a high …

Read full article: How to network A/V more effectively

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