Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6gd instances are available in South America (Sao Paolo) and Canada (Central) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and offer up to 3.8 TB of NVMe-based SSD storage.

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in Europe (Frankfurt, Germany) AWS Region to easily build and scale generative AI applications.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers Amazon EC2 Im4gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. The new Im4gn instance type is best suited for storage-intensive workloads and offers a lower cost per TB than the existing storage optimized instances available on OpenSearch Service. Im4gn supports up to 30 TB of NVMe SSD instance storage with AWS Nitro SSDs.

Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2022. With these bundles, customers can launch Windows Server 2022 WorkSpaces and take advantage of the latest Windows server operating systems features. It also enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions.

AWS Resilience Hub is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. AWS customers and AWS Partners who operate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now use AWS Resilience Hub, a service to help customers compliantly improve the resilience of applications running on AWS.

Starting today, Route 53 geoproximity routing can be used with AWS Local Zones in Route 53 traffic flow to reduce latency for end users connecting to applications running in their nearest Local Zone. With this release, you can improve application performance for latency-sensitive workloads by routing traffic within the same geographic area as that of Local Zone infrastructure.

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query now supports the Sepolia Testnet, delivering foundational balance and transactional data with full history and sub-second latency without the need for specialized infrastructure. With this release, AMB Query now supports the Sepolia Testnet and completes its Testnet and Mainnet coverage for Bitcoin and Ethereum, helping developers from test to production.

In the academic year ending in 2021, more than 60%  of all bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in United States postsecondary education institutions were awarded to men according  to  the …

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For example, what caught David Manners’ eye this week was Canon coming up with an alternative to EUV lithography for writing 5nm circuitry.

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Würth Elektronik has released a detailed and thoughtful app note on using opto-couplers, particularly ‘817’ types. AN0007a* ‘Understanding phototransistor optocouplers’ goes deep into analogue and digital uses, covering performance variations …

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