Nexperia has created an energy harvesting IC for photovoltaic cells up to around 1mW, that automatically matches the cell to the battery – aiming to extract at least 80% of energy that the cell can produce for any given illumination. Harvesting range is 35µW to 2mW. Inside the IC, called NEH2000BY, power conversion is thorough …

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Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces.

Amazon Detective now supports security investigations for Amazon GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring , GuardDuty RDS Protection , and Lambda Protection . GuardDuty and Detective are part of a broad set of fully managed AWS security services that help customers identify potential security risks, so they can respond quickly, freeing security teams to focus on tasks with the highest value.

You can now use the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) Packet Analyzer to identify sources of IMDSv1 calls on your EC2 instances.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), a messaging service that provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications, now supports AWS X-Ray active tracing with Amazon SNS FIFO topics . You can now view traces that flow through Amazon SNS FIFO topics to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues, in addition to traversing the application topology in Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens. You can use Amazon SNS FIFO topics, in combination with Amazon SQS FIFO queues, to build applications that require messages to be sent and processed in a strict sequence and without duplicates. You can enable AWS X-Ray active tracing using the Amazon SNS SetTopicAttributes API, Amazon SNS Management Console, or via AWS CloudFormation.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the HypoPG extension for creating hypothetical indexes, which lets you test the performance impact of an index on query plans before you build it. 

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now includes registry.k8s.io , the new upstream Kubernetes container image registry, as a supported upstream for pull through cache repositories. With today’s release, customers can configure a rule that is designed to automatically sync images from the upstream Kubernetes registry to their private ECR repositories.

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MSK, self-manged Apache Kafka and Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ as event sources in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Africa (Cape Town), and Middle East (UAE). This gives customers more choices for how they want to send messages to Lambda. Customers can build applications quickly and easily with Lambda functions that are invoked based on messages from these event sources connected to an event source mapping.

Today, AWS announces the expanded support of AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), which adds additional FIS ‘actions’ for EKS and ECS. FIS is a fully managed service which allows you to run experiments to test how your applications will behave during an impairment, and helps you improve application performance, observability, and resilience. Using these new EKS and ECS actions, you can inject a variety of faults into EKS pods and ECS tasks, including CPU stress, memory stress, IO stress, network blackhole, network latency, network packet loss, kill process, and delete EKS pod.