AWS Glue Crawlers extract the data schema and partitions from Amazon S3 and populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog, keeping metadata current. Today, AWS Glue Crawler support is expanded to automatically add partition indexes for newly discovered tables that will help analytics services such as Amazon Athena and AWS Glue to optimize partition processing to help with query performance on highly partitioned tables. 

AWS License Manager announces a new feature to upgrade EC2 instances with Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) operating system to Ubuntu Pro. With Ubuntu Pro subscription, customers get five years of Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) on the Ubuntu LTS releases from Canonical. Using this License Manager feature, customers can upgrade their Ubuntu LTS instances in-place to Ubuntu Pro without needing to migrate to a new Ubuntu Pro Amazon Machine Image (AMI). For the use of upgraded EC2 instances with Ubuntu Pro, you will be charged on a per-second basis at the applicable On-Demand or Savings Plan rates for Ubuntu Pro.

Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager that helps DevOps engineers investigate and remediate issues in the context of their applications, now supports AWS CDK applications. Customers who use CDK to model their cloud infrastructure can view their CDK constructs grouped as applications in the Application Manager console. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TiB (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

Starting today, customers with multiple organizational units (OU’s), and accounts can now create up to 10 AWS Firewall Manager administrator accounts from AWS Organizations service to manage their firewall policies. Customers can delegate responsibility for firewall administration at a granular scope by restricting access based on OU, account, policy type, and region, thereby enabling policy management tasks to be implemented faster and more effectively.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Support in Korean in all commercial regions. Customers can now select Korean, in addition to Chinese, English, and Japanese as their preferred language to interact with our team of support engineers and customer service representatives. Customers will receive personalized support in the language of their choice with predictable response times as per their Support plan at no additional cost.

Is the Civil Service out to get me? Ed asks his diary. I suppose quite a few ministers are worrying about the same thing. I’ve had sharp words with some of the rustier tools in the Departmental toolbox and would like to know how I am regarded in case I get a sudden ambush like …

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There’s a report on decline in electronics production, TI introducing a new SimpleLink family of Wi-Fi 6 companion ICs, the US Chips Act garnering 200+ statements of interest, and the danger of Arm becoming liable for $8.5 billion of Softbank debt… 

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In his book Chip Management, Tsuyoshi Kawanishi, a notable former CEO of Toshiba Semiconductors who served on the boards of both Toshiba and Applied Materials, considers the differences between US and Japanese management styles and summarises them in this graphic:

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Time to make a date in your diary – for the Summer Science Exhibition 2023, showcasing cutting-edge research from across the UK.

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