Consumer electronics prices are on the way up and potential purchasers should buy now to avoid being stung later. Consumer manufacturers  are hard-hit by the DRAM Shock of a 55-60% …

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Veeco Instruments  and imec have  developed a 300mm high volume manufacturing compatible process that enables the integration of barium titanate (BaTiO3 or BTO) on a silicon photonics platform. At present, …

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Max Simmonds talks about starting a business and the perils around cloud use in monitoring equipment which prompted him to start Purple Parrot

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Rohm Semiconductor launches high capacity LDO regulator ICs based on Nano Cap technology

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Amazon Bedrock now supports a 1-hour time-to-live (TTL) option for prompt caching for select Anthropic Claude models. With this update, you can extend the persistence of cached prompt prefixes from the default 5 minutes to 1 hour, improving cost efficiency and performance for long-running agentic workflows and multi-turn conversations.

Previously, cached content remained active for a fixed 5-minute window and refreshed when reused. With the new 1-hour TTL option, you can maintain context for users who interact less frequently, or for complex agents that require more time between steps—such as tool use, retrieval, and orchestration. The 1-hour TTL is also useful for longer sessions and batch processing where you want cached content to persist across extended periods.

1-hour TTL prompt caching is generally available for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5, and Claude Opus 4.5 in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where these models are available. The 1-hour cache is billed at a different rate than the standard 5-minute cache. To learn more, refer to the Amazon Bedrock documentation and Amazon Bedrock Pricing page.

Amazon Lightsail now offers new Node.js, LAMP, and Ruby on Rails blueprints. These new blueprints have Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) enforced by default. With just a few clicks, you can create a Lightsail virtual private server (VPS) of your preferred size with Node.js, LAMP, or Ruby on Rails preinstalled.

With Lightsail, you can easily get started on the cloud by choosing a blueprint and an instance bundle to build your web application. Lightsail instance bundles include instances preinstalled with your preferred operating system, storage, and monthly data transfer allowance, giving you everything you need to get up and running quickly.

These new blueprints are now available in all AWS Regions where Lightsail is available . For more information on blueprints supported on Lightsail, see Lightsail documentation . For more information on pricing, or to get started with your free trial, click here.

Amazon Managed Grafana is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions, enabling government customers and regulated industries to securely visualize and analyze their operational data while meeting stringent compliance requirements. Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service based on open-source Grafana that makes it easier for you to visualize and analyze your operational data at scale.

All Amazon Managed Grafana features are supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions except for Enterprise plugins. To get started with Amazon Managed Grafana, visit the AWS Console and Amazon Managed Grafana user guide . To learn more about Amazon Managed Grafana, visit the product page and pricing page .

AWS Network Firewall now provides visibility into generative AI (GenAI) application traffic and supports traffic filtering based on web categories. This new capability simplifies governance by enabling you to identify and control access to GenAI services, social media platforms, streaming sites, and other web categories directly within your firewall rules using pre-defined URL categories.

This approach of inspecting traffic based on URL categories helps security and compliance teams enforce consistent policies across their AWS environments while providing visibility into usage of emerging technologies like GenAI. You can now easily block access to inappropriate or high-risk domains, restrict GenAI tool usage to approved services, and meet regulatory requirements—all while reducing operational overhead. When combined with AWS Network Firewall’s TLS inspection feature, you can inspect the full URL path using category-based rules for even more granular control.

This feature is available in all AWS commercial regions where AWS Network Firewall is supported.

To learn more about URL category filtering in AWS Network Firewall, visit AWS Network Firewall product page and service documentation . You can get started by updating your stateful rule groups in the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. 

AWS Marketplace now offers a self-service listing experience for sellers listing Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products with FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) images. This new capability eliminates the previous dependency on manual Product Load Forms and accelerates time-to-market for AWS partners that offer specialized hardware accelerators using FPGA technology on supported Amazon F2 instance types.

With this launch, sellers can now create and manage AMIs with Amazon FPGA images using a new UI experience or programmatically through the AWS Marketplace Catalog API. During listing creation, sellers are guided through a step-by-step workflow to fill in required information about their listings including up to 15 Amazon FPGA images. The self-service experience includes comprehensive inline validation and error messages to help sellers identify and resolve configuration issues before submission, streamlining the publishing process and improving speed to market.

To learn more, see the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide and the AWS Marketplace Catalog API guide . To get started, visit the server product page in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal.

AWS announces advanced printer redirection for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal, enabling Windows users to access the full feature set of their printers from their virtual desktop environments. With this feature, customers can now use printer-specific capabilities such as double-sided printing, paper tray selection, finishing options (stapling, hole-punching), and color management directly from their Windows WorkSpaces.

Advanced printer redirection addresses the need for specialized printing features that require printer-specific drivers rather than generic drivers. This capability is ideal for organizations with users who need advanced printing features for professional documents, labels, or specialized output. The feature includes configurable driver validation modes (exact match, partial match, or name-only matching) to balance compatibility with feature support, allowing administrators to optimize for their specific environment. When matching drivers are not found, WorkSpaces automatically falls back to basic printing mode, ensuring users can always print.

This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces Personal is offered. Advanced printer redirection is supported on Windows WorkSpaces with Windows clients only, and requires WorkSpaces Agent version 2.2.0.2116 or later and Windows client version 5.31 or later. Matching printer drivers must be installed on both the WorkSpace and the client device.

For more information about advanced printer redirection in Amazon WorkSpaces, see Configure Printer Support for DCV in the Amazon WorkSpaces Administration Guide, or visit the Amazon WorkSpaces page to learn more about virtual desktop solutions from AWS.