AWS Snowball Edge devices are now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region.

Starting today, AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces supports creating refactor environments without an AWS Transit Gateway based network bridge. This feature lets you safely and incrementally refactor your application while using your existing network infrastructure. You can now create refactor environments with your network infrastructure in minutes while benefiting from Refactor Spaces’ orchestration and management of policies, routing, API Gateway, and Network Load Balancer.

Amazon Aurora now extends the disaster recovery capabilities of Global Database and Cross-Region database cluster snapshot copying in nine additional AWS Regions, including Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta ), Europe (Milan, Spain, Zurich) and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE).

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easy 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 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. 

I managed to fix a defective bench power supply this weekend. With some judgement, but mostly luck. Manually rotating the front panel current limit pot was kicking one of the loops into oscillation – with just over 100kHz all over the place. I could see it, for example, on the reference voltage for the current …

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Russia has overtaken Iran as the most-sanctioned country in the world, with 14,081 sanctions on Russian individuals and entities currently in place, according to  Castellum.AI Before the invasion of Ukraine, Iran was by far the most-sanctioned state in history, with 3,616 active sanctions by the United States, the United Nations, the EU and countries like …

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Infineon has launched an intelligent power module (IPM) series calked iMOTION IMI110 which integrate the iMOTION Motion Control Engine (MCE) with a three-phase gate driver and 600 V/2 A or 600 V/4 A IGBTs in a  DSO-22 package. The integrated motor controller series is suitable for motors in small and large household appliances as well …

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The Swiss Polar Institute has selected Astrocast, a satellite IoT (SatIoT) service provider, to develop a satellite-based communication system for remote snow, glacier, and permafrost monitoring stations in Central Asia. The goal is to acquire a continuous time series of environmental parameters over a long time period, particularly at remote high-latitude and high-altitude field sites. …

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BEC Distribution is to distribute  the CamdenBoss range of terminal blocks.   “This will support our channel strategy of providing customers with a variety of supply partners that can support design and manufacturing projects from concept and sampling to full production,” says CamdenBoss distribution manager Alex Woods, “BEC will help us achieve this with their …

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There is little sign that semiconductor sourcing will become easier in the short term, says TechPoint, with the current situation forecasted to extend well into 2023 and in some cases 2024. Texas Instruments has projected its biggest sales slowdown in three years, with a decline in demand across several end markets. However, demand from the …

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