Dr Drew Nelson OBE (pictured) co-founder and CEO of IQE, has left the board  after 35 years. Nelson founded the compound semiconductor company with Michael Scott in 1968 He was …

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Kyocera AVX has introduced a series of solderless wire-to-board removable edge connectors. Called 9169-000, they combine insulation displacement contacts for the wire with beryllium copper compression contacts for board edge …

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Puls has announced three 240 or 480W DIN rail ac-dc dc-dc power supplies with an integrated EtherCAT interface for configuration, operation monitoring and remote control. Data over the bus includes …

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Cinch Connectivity Solutions has announced a 100Gbit/s optical transceiver, intended for tough environments including aerospace, industrial and military. H28-100G-SR4 has four transmit and four receive channels, each rated at 25.78Gbit/s. …

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We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless  now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for the endpoint of your OpenSearch Serverless collection. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by enabling their OpenSearch Serverless endpoints with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The continued growth of the internet is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude, so customers will no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces in their VPCs. Customers can also standardize their applications on the new version of Internet Protocol by moving their OpenSearch Serverless Endpoints to IPv6 only.

OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). 

Today we’re excited to announce the release of Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2024.06. This latest release brings support for Ubuntu 22.04, the ability to designate users of your RES environment as project owners, and a new demo experience.

RES on AWS 2024.06 now offers users the ability to launch virtual desktops with Ubuntu (22.04.3 – LTS). Users can use either the base image available through RES or create their own Ubuntu RES Ready AMI to preload their custom dependencies and applications. This latest release also allows RES administrators to designate certain individuals in their environment as project owners. Project owners can assist in the administration and management of RES projects by adding or removing users and groups.

The new demo experience automates deployment of a RES environment. The demo automates the process of setting up Single Sign-On (SSO) by using Keycloak as an alternative to AWS IAM Identity Center. Visit our demo page to learn more .

RES 2024.06 is available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv) and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions.

Check out additional release notes on GitHub to get started and deploy RES 2024.06 today.

Amazon DynamoDB now supports an AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) action to pause replication for global tables in the GovCloud (US) Regions. FIS is a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. Global tables replicate your Amazon DynamoDB tables automatically across your choice of AWS Regions to achieve fast, local read and write performance. Customers can use the new FIS action to observe how their application responds to a pause in regional replication, and tune their monitoring and recovery process to improve resiliency and application availability.

Global tables are designed to meet the needs of high availability applications, providing you 99.999% availability , increased application resiliency, and improved business continuity. This new FIS action reproduces the real-world behavior when replication to a global table replica is interrupted and resumed. This lets customers test and build confidence that their application responds as intended when resources in a Region are not accessible. Customers can create an experiment template in FIS to integrate the experiment with continuous integration and release testing and to combine with other FIS actions. For example, DynamoDB Pause Replication is combined with other actions in the Cross-Region: Connectivity scenario to isolate a Region.

We are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization Application Testing, an AWS Mainframe Modernization service feature that automates functional equivalence testing for mainframe application modernization and migration to AWS, and regression testing.

When modernizing mainframe applications, customers typically spend a majority of their time on software testing requiring specialized skillsets. The diversity of languages, data formats, protocols, and system dependencies add to the testing complexity. To accelerate modernization and continuous testing even long after mainframe application modernization is complete, Application Testing provides cloud-native testing capabilities, including mainframe test recording, on-demand automated test replays, comparisons, and non-regression testing at scale. The feature validates functional equivalence between source and target applications by comparing underlying data changes at scale. This approach facilitates black box testing that is agnostic to application architecture and programming languages used. Data sources supported for such comparison include data sets, databases, and online screens.

Customers benefits from test case management, testing repeatability, and testing scalability, that translate to higher quality of mass modernization, faster completion of projects, and lower costs. Built-in automation, easy access in AWS Mainframe Modernization Console, and support for a wide variety of testing use cases can free up more time and resources for innovation.

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to create VPC interface endpoints to securely connect your VPC to Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline via AWS PrivateLink. This allows greater control in meeting your network and security posture by explicitly restricting VPC resource access to only entities that need it. Furthermore, you can now connect multiple VPCs to a single Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline in an AWS account allowing network architectures for centralized logging.

With customer-managed VPC endpoints, your VPC resources can communicate with Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion within the AWS network, which helps you meet your compliance and regulatory requirements to limit public internet connectivity. You can now use Amazon VPC APIs to connect your VPCs to Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines, giving you access to advanced VPC features like identity-based policies and alerts for endpoint events.

AWS User Notifications is now available in Canada West (Calgary) Region. User Notifications enables you to view notifications across accounts, regions, and services in a Console Notifications Center, and configure delivery channels where you want to receive these notifications, like email, AWS Chatbot , and AWS Console Mobile App . You can centrally setup and view notifications from AWS services, such as AWS Health events, Amazon CloudWatch alarms, or Amazon EC2 instance state changes, in a consistent, human-readable format. Notifications include URLs to direct you to resources on the AWS Console, where you can take take additional actions.

With User Notifications, you specify which events you want to be notified about, and in which channels. Any user with User Notifications permissions can enable notifications for use cases like CloudWatch alarm state changes and Health events. For example, email jane@example.com whenever an EC2 instance in region us-east-1 or ca-west-1 with tag ‘production’ changes state to “stopped”. In addition, you can aggregate multiple events into a single notification for an easy top-level view.

Configuring and viewing notifications in the Console Notifications Center is offered at no additional cost.