AWS Firewall Manager is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region, bringing AWS Firewall Manager to a total of 29 AWS commercial regions, AWS GovCloud (US) regions, and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations.

Amazon Connect now provides contact records and real-time contact events for calls and transfers made to external third-party phone numbers. The new contact records can be used for reporting, billing reconciliation, and analytics. Contact events can be used to create analytics dashboards to monitor and track real-time contact lifecycle activity (e.g., call connected to the third-party). To learn more about these new contact records and events, and how you can stream these to your analytics applications, see our documentation for contact records and contact events .

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the PLDT Vitro Makati 2 data center in Manila, Philippines. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

Customers can now use AWS Transfer Family in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad).

79 years ago, a Russian immigrant into the USA, started a company, which he named after the three initials of his name followed by ‘ex’ (for excellence). When it was four years old, the company introduced the first practical, audio tape recorder and eight years later, the first practical video recorder. Bing Crosby insisted on …

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Nvidia’s market cap has hit $950 billion after a forecast of an $11 billion Q2. “We’re seeing incredible orders to retool the world’s data centres,” Jensen Huang told analysts. “A trillion dollars of data centre infrastructure will be upgraded to handle so-called accelerated computing, he estimates. The analysts duly came out with euphoric statements about …

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Custom battery pack manufacturer Alexander Battery Technologies has opened an e-mobility battery engineering and production unit on its Peterlee campus in County Durham. “The Battery Technology Centre will add engineering and service capabilities as the company begins its first projects, developing and prototyping for e-mobility customers,” according to the company. “The 1,850m2 [20,000ft2] centre complements …

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Analog Devices has created a pair of 6A buck-boost converters for automotive use. “MAX25239 and MAX25240 small-footprint 2V to 36V converters are the industry’s only 6A automotive buck-boost with integrated H-bridge switches,” according to distributor Farnell, which is stocking the parts. “They provide a fixed-output regulation voltage and an externally adjustable output voltage from 3V …

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Nanusens has designed an all-digital capacitance measurement circuit to integrate alongside its MEMS sensors. “This means that both the sensor structure and its detection circuitry can be made at the same time within a chip using standard CMOS processes on whatever process node is required,” said the Devon, UK company. “As a result, ASICs can …

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IQE has launched 200mm Red, Green and Blue (RGB) epitaxial wafers for microLED display qualification.   MicroLEDs based upon GaN and GaAs semiconductors are a display technology that is being designed into multiple new platforms such as wearables, AR/VR headsets and large format displays.  IQE reckons its GaN and GaAs epitaxy enable faster adoption of …

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