Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the KIO Networks data center in Querétaro, Mexico. 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.

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 in South America (São Paulo) Region. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity. 

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the with a few simple clicks.

Today, Amazon Personalize announces the launch of popularity tuning for its Similar-Items recipe (aws-similar-items). Similar-Items generates recommendations that are similar to the item that a user selects, helping users discover new items in a customer’s catalog based on the behavior of all users and item metadata. 

The annual celebration of the global electronics industry industry is back – the Elektra Awards 2023 will be taking place at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Wednesday 29 November.

The post Elektra Awards 2023 – Make a date in your diary appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

Ash Madni takes a personal look at some of the British companies that have shown an impressive ability to survive in tough economic conditions and still carve out a niche in the IC Design market. In the modern world of post British companies such as GEC, Plessey, Ferranti, STL, few can boast a history of …

The post Viewpoint: British Integrated Design Companies – My personal experience appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

For example, what caught David Manners’ eye this week was a story that Arm could be saddled with $8.5bn of Softbank debt if the filing for its public offer is delayed beyond the end of September.

The post What caught your eye this week? (Arm debt, Edible battery, Arduino coffee machine) appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

Back in the 50s this place was turning out silicon devices and it later made the world’s first semi-custom chips. Execs took the view that CMOS would never become significant in the chip industry and  that automated circuit design would never be needed. Moral: Never say Never

The post Fable: The Execs Who Were Wrong appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

Why do government officials talk such tripe about technology? UK government announcements go on about  the UK’s ‘world-leading’ or ‘world-beating’ technologies – either in existence or in development – when they’re nothing of the sort. This week an EC Commissioner declared that the EU Chips Act would secure European mastery of advanced chip manufacturing when, …

The post Bullshit appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-sea has announced the latest version in its 41/43-752A range of battery simulator modules. Suitable for EV battery stack emulation in BMS test applications, the 41/43-752A-111’s increased voltage isolation (now 1000V) will be essential as the EV industry shifts from 400V to 800V architectures. Targeting EV (electric vehicle), electric aircraft and other …

The post Pickering adds to battery simulator modules appeared first on Electronics Weekly .