AWS ParallelCluster 3.8 is now generally available. Key features in this release are support for Rocky Linux 8 and Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, allowing you to reserve highly sought-after GPU instances on a future date to support your short duration machine learning (ML) workloads. Other important features in this release include:

• Scaling strategies to help you meet your scaling and cost requirements, ranging from strict all-or-nothing, that avoid launching idle instances, to best-effort, which prioritizes throughput scaling over avoiding idle instances.
• Support for mounting user-defined file systems in AWS to the /home directory of the head node, helping you simplify cluster storage management. 
• Custom Munge key to help you simplify integration of additional cluster resources that require the Scheduler Munge key.

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that allows customers to connect applications to data and events with GraphQL APIs. AppSync allows customers to create APIs that connect to multiple data sources like microservice APIs, relational databases, and NoSQL databases. With AppSync APIs, applications can efficiently fetch data from different sources in one request.

Egress Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection for AWS Network Firewall is now available in all AWS Regions where AWS Network Firewall is available today, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This launch allows you to use AWS Network Firewall to decrypt TLS sessions and inspect inbound and outbound VPC traffic without the need to deploy or manage any additional network security infrastructure. Encryption and decryption happen on the same firewall instance natively, so traffic doesn’t cross any network boundaries.

Starting today, AWS Verified Access that allows allows you to provide secure access to your corporate applications without using VPNs is available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US East) Regions. Built  using AWS Zero Trust guiding principles, Verified Access helps you implement a work-from-anywhere model in a secure and scalable manner.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now provides an enhanced experience for RDS Recommendations that consolidates configuration best practices, threshold-based proactive performance recommendations, and machine learning (ML) powered performance anomalies.

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now generates recommendations that inform you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical. RDS Performance Insights continuously monitors database instances for potential issues that can lead to degraded database health in the future. When it detects such conditions, it generates new recommendations that describe the nature of the impending problem, and includes specific actions you can take to mitigate that problem. These recommendations are available to Performance Insights paid tier customers.

Today, AWS announces on-demand data replication for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS across AWS Regions and/or AWS accounts, enabling you to easily and efficiently transfer incremental point-in-time snapshots of your volumes to a different AWS Region or account. On-demand data replication now provides a simple and resilient way to implement disaster recovery, replicate production data to a different region or account, and enable lower latency data access for your global customer base or workforce.

Today, AWS Audit Manager announces support for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard v4.0 (PCI DSS v4.0) for automated evidence collection. This new standard framework can be leveraged by customers that store, process, or transmit cardholder data or sensitive authentication data to help them prepare for audits using a prebuilt collection of controls and automated evidence sources.

It is 70 years since Everest was first climbed and more and more climbers have been reaching the summit in recent years thanks to advances in mountaineering equipment. It’s become …

The post Everest appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

At the present time, the two elemental, semiconductor materials, germanium and silicon are predominant. So 62 years ago, started a feature by Dr AJ Goss in Electronics Weekly’s edition of …

The post Progress In Semiconductor Materials appeared first on Electronics Weekly .