Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Spain). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. 

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate now integrate with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), allowing you to easily provision and attach EBS volumes to Amazon ECS tasks running on both AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) using Amazon ECS APIs. This capability makes it easier for you to deploy storage and data intensive applications such as ETL jobs, media transcoding, and ML inference workloads using serverless containers.

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports Memcached version 1.6.22 when using the node-based deployment option. With this release, you can now design your own ElastiCache for Memcached cluster using Memcached version 1.6.22. ElastiCache Serverless for Memcached already supports Memcached version 1.6.22.

Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now supports AWS AppSync as a target of an Event Bus, which enables you to stream real-time updates such as sport scores and stock updates from your own applications to frontend applications including mobile and desktop. With AppSync as a target, clients can now subscribe to mutations or changes in data and AppSync will notify those subscribers of that data change on successful completion of the mutation.

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Innovation Release 8.2 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 8.2 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases.

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics …

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131 years ago, in 1882:  a Frenchman demonstrated this solar powered printing press in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. Despite having a cloudy day for the demo,  the machine …

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E-peas has created an energy harvesting IC specifically for hand-held remote controls and wireless keyboards equipped with small solar cells. A cold start is possible from an input voltage as …

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Microsoft and the US Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have teamed up in a multi-year project to explore material science using AI and super-computing, and discovered a promising solid electrolyte …

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The UK’s Satellite Applications Catapult (SAC) has announced the winners of its Environmental Space Living Lab Competition. The byline for the competition was Revolutionising water quality and resource efficiency in …

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