In AWS Marketplace, customers can now filter for products with Vendor Insights security profiles that are FedRAMP authorized or in process. With AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights, you can complete third-party software risk assessments in days instead of months. Vendor Insights serves buyers who need help to efficiently validate that third-party software meets their business compliance needs. Vendor Insights also serves sellers who want to showcase their strong security posture, while reducing the operational burden from responding to buyer requests for risk assessment information.

Today, AWS Control Tower announced additional landing zone flexibility. Customers can now select whether AWS Control Tower sets up AWS account access with AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On), or they can self-manage AWS account access with AWS IAM Identity Center or use another method. AWS Control Tower continues to deliver an opinionated configuration following AWS best practices, while recognizing that some customers have existing configurations or bespoke business needs that require deviation from AWS Control Tower’s standard configuration. Customers can opt into Control Tower governed IAM Identity Center directory groups and permissions sets at any time. 

AWS announces the availability of AWS Snowblade for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract customers. AWS Snowblade is designed to provide AWS compute, storage, and other hybrid services in remote locations, including Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments for the DoD. AWS Snowblade is the first AWS Snow Family device designed to meet U.S. Military Ruggedization Standards (MIL-STD-810H), enabling JWCC defense customers to run their operations in edge locations that can be subject to extreme temperatures, vibrations, and shocks. With support for 208 vCPU in a portable, compact 5U, half-rack width form-factor, AWS Snowblade is the densest compute device of the AWS Snow Family allowing JWCC customers to run demanding workloads in space, weight, and power (SWaP) constrained edge locations.

As soon as it was announced, I was dying to see what type of display Apple has used in the Vision Pro augmented reality headset. And its website says: a pair of micro-oled displays, with resolution above 4K I was hoping for a micro-led display – ie, inorganic semiconductor – as this is a very …

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Out of all the coastal waters monitored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the ones which have increased temperature the most are the ones subject to hurricanes – like the MDR and Caribbean. These are the waters which have diverged most from their 20th century average temperature recently. In 2022 as a whole, they were …

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Satellite Vu has raised a further £12.7m in Series A-2 funding, bringing its investment total to £30.5m. The UK thermal infrared satellite firm says the A2 round was led by Molten Ventures, with participation from Seraphim Space Investment Trust PLC, A/O Proptech, Lockheed Martin, Ridgeline Ventures, Earth Sciences Foundation, and Stellar Ventures. All are existing …

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Q1 shipments of AR and VR headsets fell 54.4% y-o-y with  VR representing 96.2% of  the VR/AR headsets shipped, according to  (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker. Among the top 5 AR/VR headset makers, Meta continued to lead with 47.8% share although it did lose ground to Sony’s PSVR 2, which captured …

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Q1 SSD revenues fell 47.3% to $1.998 billion says TrendForce, despite production cut-backs. Q2 is expected to show a small demand increase. Kioxia rose to third place in Q1 despite its enterprise SSD revenue dropping 39.7% to approximately $296 million. Samsung’s Q1 enterprise SSD revenue fell to US$801 million, marking a QoQ decline of 55%. …

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Rockley Photonics has completed a comprehensive financial restructuring and emerged from Chapter 11 after filing for bankruptcy protection in Q1. All of Rockley’s material customer relationships remain in place. The company remains on schedule with all programs including its development of remote patient monitoring technology. Rockley continues to see promising results relating to a number …

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NXP has announced a family of top-side-cooled RF amplifiers, intended to shrink and lighten radios for 5G infrastructure – the company is claiming a reduction basestation thickness and weight of over 20% compared with those made with its bottom-side cooled amplifiers. It is aiming at active MIMO (multiple input multiple output) antenna arrays, where using …

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