You can now record configuration changes to your Amazon Redshift clusters with AWS Config. The detailed configuration recorded by AWS Config includes changes made to Amazon Redshift clusters, cluster parameter groups, cluster security groups, cluster snapshots, cluster subnet groups, and event subscriptions. In addition, you can run two new managed Config Rules to check whether your Amazon Redshift clusters have the appropriate configuration and maintenance settings. These checks include verifying that your cluster database is encrypted, logging is enabled, snapshot data retention period is set appropriately, and much more. 

All AWS Config Rules customers can now create up to 50 rules in their AWS account by default. Additionally, you can request an increase for the limit on the number of rules in your account by visiting the AWS Service Limits page.

Starting today AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) is available on the Application Load Balancer (ALB). You can now use AWS WAF directly on Application Load Balancers (both internal and external) in a VPC, to protect your websites and web services. With this launch customers can now use AWS WAF on both Amazon CloudFront and Application Load Balancer.

AWS CodePipeline is now available in the South America (São Paulo) AWS region.

RS Components is targeting heating and air conditioning equipment with a range of AC axial fan kits from ebm-papst. Available with a choice of AC axial diameters and housings, the range includes a 24V AC input-voltage model with airflow of 158 cubic metres per hour; two 115V AC models offering a choice of 135 or 330m3/h airflow; …

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Five companies will have 41% market share this year, says IC Insights, up from the 32% share held by the top five companies in 2006. The change follows the M&A activity in 2015 and 2016. The five are: Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Hynix. — will account for 41% marketshare in 2016 (Figure 1). The …

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Thanks to the IMF for this one – the top ten countries for GDP per person: Luxembourg Norway Ireland Holland Austria Germany Denmark Belgium France UK

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The MEAS weather shield with five environmental sensors on an Arduino/Genuino 101- and Uno R3-compatible board from TE Connectivity is available from Mouser Electronics. The five sensors are: the TE HTU21D digital relative humidity sensor, MS5637 digital barometric pressure sensor, TSYS01 temperature system sensor, MS8607 digital relative humidity and digital pressure sensor, and TSD305-1C55 digital thermopile sensor. The HTU21D sensor is a self-contained humidity and temperature …

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New airport security screening technology using millimetre waves have to potential to improve threat detection without using body images which invade personal privacy, writes Dr. Sherif Sayed Ahmed Long airport security queues are not fun for anyone involved. Waiting times can be stressful for travellers, who would rather be relaxing airside. The security staff themselves …

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Imec has developed a 8nm p-MTJ device with 100% tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) and coercive field as high 1500Oe. This enables the establishment of a manufacturing process for high-density spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) arrays that meet the requirements of the 10nm and beyond logic node for embedded non-volatile memory applications. It also paves the …

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