Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now offers multi-VPC private connectivity that simplifies connectivity and access to your Amazon MSK clusters from your Apache Kafka clients hosted in any VPC or AWS account.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation C5d, M5d and R5d instances, C6id, M6id and R6id instances deliver up to 15% better price performance. C6id offers up to 138% higher TB storage per vCPU and 56% lower cost per TB; M6id and R6id offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU, and 34% lower cost per TB.

AWS Graviton3-based M7g and R7g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Graviton3-based instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement and up to a 27% price/performance improvement over Graviton2-based instances on RDS for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload. You can launch these database instances when using Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB .

Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions.

There was once a woman who was described by Charles Babbage as an “enchantress who has thrown her magical spell around the most abstract of sciences and has grasped it with a force which few masculine intellects could have exerted over it.” The enchantress used her prodigious abilities to develop a mathematical model to bet …

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For example, our technology editor says it is good to hear that the House of Lords is looking into the use of artificial intelligence in warfare – he hopes a deep and thorough public report is likely to emerge.

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Before the end of the decade, the world will see the first construction megaproject with a cost exceeding $1 trillion, reckons construction software company 1Build Right now, there are several $100 billion+ projects underway. Out of all nine ongoing megaprojects identified by 1Build, International Construction Magazine and Construction Review to cost $100 billion or more, …

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The Space Symposium 2023, which has completed in Colorado Springs, featured a celebration of the Webb Space Telescope, the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission and the progress of the Orion spacecraft and Artemis program, along with calls for for the U.S. government to declare space as a critical infrastructure. Rich Cooper, VP of Strategic …

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Samsung’s Q1 revenue was down 18% y-o-y at  $47.6 billion for an operating profit down 95% y-o-y at $478.5 million. Semiconductor revenue dropped 49% y-o-y to  $10.2 billion for a loss of $3.4 billion. A Samsung statement blamed:  “Weak demand in the memory business, a decline in utilisation rates in the foundry business, and continued …

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 Integrated Graphene, which is pioneering the use of 3D graphene known as Gii to transform the human diagnostics and sustainable IoT sectors, is doubling its footprint to meet increased global demand for its Gii-based products and to scale up both R&D and production. The company’s investment in growth supports 19 high-skilled roles created in the last …

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