Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2iedn instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and delivers improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1e instances. X2iedn instances have a memory to vCPU ratio of 32:1 and are great fit for memory-intensive workloads such as databases and analytics, and big data processing engines. X2iedn instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. You can view the certification data for X2iedn on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory .

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports inbound network access control that helps you to restrict user access to your Grafana workspaces. Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. With this launch, you have granular security controls over the rollout of Grafana workspaces by defining customer-managed prefix lists and VPC endpoints to help you restrict the inbound network traffic that can reach your Grafana workspaces. 

AWS Control Tower now provides you with the ability to trace a customization request through the entire AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) workflow. With AFT, Terraform customers can automate the creation of fully functional accounts that grant them access to all the resources they need to be productive. This feature enhancement allows customers to track where their customizations are in the pipeline and enables them to identify and troubleshoot issues more easily.

Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region.

Amazon MQ now supports the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to create and manage keys for at-rest encryption of customer data for RabbitMQ brokers. Amazon MQ handles the encryption and decryption seamlessly, so you don’t have to change your applications to access your data. When you create a broker, you can now select the KMS key used to encrypt your data from the following three options: a KMS key in the Amazon MQ service account, a KMS key in your account that Amazon MQ creates and manages, or a KMS key in your account that you create and manage. In addition to encryption at rest, all data transferred between Amazon MQ and client applications is securely transmitted using TLS/SSL.

For example, what caught David Manners’ eye this week was Arm clearing the decks for its IPO with a 14% cut in the staff of Arm China…

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ChatGPT is the fox in the search industry’s coop. The technology is seen as key to the future of search and Microsoft has teamed up with OpenAI – the progenitors of  ChatGPT. “AI will fundamentally change every software category, starting with the largest category of all – search,” says Satya Nadella. So it looks bad …

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My friend Steve Williams sends me this account of how Elon threw a wobbly when his tweet about the Superbowl received less attention than Joe Biden’s tweet about the Superbowl. https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system Power corrupts, they say, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. With absolute power over Twitter, Elon can now ensure that his own ranking system will …

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Kyocera has announced NP0 dielectric MLCCs (multi-layer ceramic capacitors) approved to the Defense Logistics Agency Qualified Products Database (DLA QPD) for high-reliability military applications. “The new MIL-PRF-32535 BME NP0 MLCCs have higher CV capabilities than standard surface-mount PME MLCCs qualified to military and aerospace specifications and are currently available in M and T reliability levels …

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MediaTek has announced some details of its Dimensity 7200 phone SoC. To be built on a 4nm process from TSMC, it will have eight Arm cores: two 2.8GHz Cortex-A715 cores and six Cortex-A510, then MediaTek’s own AI processing pnit (APU) and an Arm Mali G610 GPU. Memory runs at 6.4Gbit/s and there is UFS 3.1 …

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