Starting today, you can use AWS Shield Advanced in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Australia (Melbourne), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions. AWS Shield Advanced is a managed application security service that safeguards applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Shield Advanced provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency. Also, it provides protections against more sophisticated and larger attacks for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. To learn more visit, the AWS Shield Advanced product page.

AWS Security Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region. You can now use Security Hub to centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in this Region and take advantage of more than 110 security controls to automatically check your environment against security industry standards and best practices.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters. 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Singapore). C7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. C7g instances are built for workloads including batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, data analytics, and CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now maintains read availability through writer node restarts. With today’s launch, reader nodes will continue to serve read requests during a writer node restart, improving read availability in the cluster. 

The annual Misery Index is compiled by Professor Steve Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University      

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Ever thought of being a Finn or a Luxembourger or an Austrian? Well citizenship experts Astons have come up with a cost analysis of which are the best passports on the market. An Austrian passport  is best for accessing other countries allowing holders to access to 174 global nations. However, with a minimum investment required …

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The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye… David Manners, components editor What caught my eye this week was quantum computing looking a bit more of a serious proposition …

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iWave Systems has collaborated with Texas Instruments to create a solderable system-on-module powered by automotive-grade AM62Ax Sitara processors – which are nominally vision processors. Meeting the 45 x 45mm 622pad LGA OSM v1.1 solderable standard, the module is called iW-RainboW-G55M. Courtesy of the TI IC, it has quad 1.4GHz Arm Cortex-A53 CPU cores, an 800MHz …

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At the recent Embedded World 2023, which took place in Nuremberg, Electronics Weekly‘s Group Editor, Clive Couldwell caught up with NXP and Microchip. With Brian Carlson – Director of Global Product and Solutions Marketing at NXP – he discussed software-defined vehicles, vehicle architectures and the role of MCUs. And with Ronny Tittoto – Embedded Solution …

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