University of California San Diego and French lab CEA-Leti have got together to create a novel high-voltage drive for electrostatic and piezoelectric actuators in mini-drones, describing the technique at ISSCC …

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports CPU limits of up to 192 vCPU for ECS tasks deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, an increase from the previous 10 vCPU limit. This enhancement allows customers to more effectively manage resource allocation on larger Amazon EC2 instances.

Amazon ECS customers can define soft and hard limits for CPU and memory resources at the container level, and hard limits at the task level. Soft limits reserve resources on an Amazon EC2 instance for a container, while hard limits enforce maximum usage. For CPU specifically, the container-level hard limit acts as a ceiling and helps prevent resource contention when multiple containers are competing for resources using Linux CpuShares. The task-level CPU limit acts both as the reservation for the task and prevents any single task from consuming excessive resources during contentions. Customers can now specify up to 192 vCPU as the CPU limit for an ECS task, increased from the previous 10 vCPU, enabling more effective resource sharing across multiple tasks on larger sized EC2 instances. For example, on a c7i.48xl instance with 192 vCPUs, defining a 32 vCPU limit per ECS task allows running up to 6 tasks without resource contention from noisy neighbors.

You can use AWS management console, SDK, CLI, CloudFormation, or CDK to define the CPU limit for your Amazon ECS task definition. The new limit is now effective in all regions. To learn more, see documentation.
 

AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMS Serverless) now supports premigration assessments for replications . A premigration assessment evaluates the source and target databases of a database migration task to help identify problems that might prevent a migration from running as expected. By identifying and fixing these issues before a migration starts, you can avoid delays in completing the database migration.

The premigration assessments will obtain detailed information about the source schema and tables to provide recommendations on the AWS DMS settings that should be used. For example, the assessment can suggest which method of reading redo logs for change data capture (CDC) should be used or it could check if the recommended settings have been enabled, providing best practice recommendations from AWS DMS experts.

To learn more, see AWS DMS Serverless premigration .

AWS DMS Serverless premigration assessments are available in all AWS Regions where DMS Serverless is available. For AWS DMS Serverless regional availability, please refer to the AWS Region Table .
 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.41 and 8.4.4. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the enhancements in RDS for MySQL 8.0.41 and 8.4.4 in the Amazon RDS user guide .

You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MySQL instances. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments, in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Amazon RDS for MySQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. Learn more about pricing details and regional availability at Amazon RDS for MySQL . Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS for MySQL database in the Amazon RDS Management Console .
 

AWS Network Firewall now offers automated domain lists and insights, a feature that enhances visibility into network traffic and simplifies firewall rule configuration. This new capability analyzes HTTP and HTTPS traffic logs from the last 30 days and provides insights into frequently accessed domains, enabling quick rule creation based on observed network traffic patterns.

Many organizations now use allow-list policies to limit access to approved destinations only. Automated domain lists reduce the time and effort required to identify necessary domains, configure initial rules, and update allow lists as business needs change. This feature helps quickly identify legitimate traffic while maintaining a restrictive default stance, balancing security with operational efficiency.

This feature is supported in all AWS Regions where AWS Network Firewall is available today. There is no additional cost to generate automated domain lists and insights on AWS Network Firewall.

To get started, visit the AWS Network Firewall console and enable analysis mode for your firewall. For more information, please refer to the AWS Network Firewall service documentation .

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that Outbound customers can now specify a Mail Manager archive resource as an additional destination for outbound mail workloads. This enables retention of messages post-DKIM-signature, ensuring that the archive is usable for validating every individual sent message. The Mail Manager archive search interface allows easy discovery of indexed messages and presents search results directly in the AWS console, or makes them available to export to the customer’s chosen S3 bucket.

SES Outbound customers using APIv2 now have access to a new parameter in their configuration set which specifies a Mail Manager archive ARN in the same . Once the necessary role permissions in IAM are configured, the user initiating the Outbound workload will see a copy of each uniquely-signed outgoing message ingested into the destination archive, where it will be indexed and made available for both search and export.

This new feature is billed at the existing Mail Manager Archive price points. This capability is available for Outbound customers in all 17 AWS Regions where Mail Manager is launched. Customers can learn more about SES Outbound and Mail Manager here .

Thanks to UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) for this one – the ten most technologically  advanced countries in the world: Japan South Korea United States Germany China Singapore Sweden Switzerland …

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Air traffic is responsible for around 2.5 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions, and IATA, which represents around 340 airlines  and over 80% of  air traffic, has committed to achieving …

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Supercapacitors are essential in energy harvesting, processing, and storage systems across various applications. As technology advances, supercapacitors are increasingly used in renewable energy, IoT devices, and more. Eaton Electronics, a …

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Micron is sampling its first Gen5 client SSD based on its G9 TLC NAND which claims to double the performance of its predecessor. The Micron PCIe 4600 SSD has sequential …

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