Starting today, memory optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Zurich). X2idn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake), are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in price performance compared to previous generation X1 instances. The X2idn instance is built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU making this instance a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases, analytics, and big data processing engines. X2idn 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 X2idn on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory . 

AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to automate deployment of SAP S/4HANA Foundation applications, and SAP S/4HANA 2022 . This launch expands on existing Launch Wizard capabilities that allow you to automate deployment of SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA 2020 and 2021.

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. An EMR Serverless application internally uses workers to execute your workloads and you can configure different worker configurations based on the need of your workload. Previously, the largest worker configuration available on EMR Serverless was 4 vCPUs with up to 30 GB memory. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Serverless now offers worker configurations of 8 vCPUs with up to 60 GB memory and 16 vCPUs with up to 120 GB memory, allowing you to run more compute or memory-intensive workloads on EMR Serverless. 

Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of instance refresh to support instances on standby or protected from scale in. For instances on standby, you now have the options to terminate them, ignore them altogether, as well as the current option to wait until they return to in service. For protected instances, you now have the options to refresh them, ignore them altogether, as well as the current option to wait for them until you remove scale-in protection.

Today, we are excited to announce the ability to roll back an EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh. EC2 Auto Scaling’s instance refresh feature allows you to replace instances in an Auto Scaling group on a rolling basis. With today’s launch, you can use rollback to undo changes an instance refresh made when it fails.

The son of a co-founder of a computer company invented an aerial camera and started a company to build and sell it. He then started an aircraft company to make aeroplanes to carry the cameras. He sold thousands of aeroplanes. He had 30 patents to his name including a carrier for fruit picking invented when …

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Reporting by Aljazeera, Reuters and the Associated Press shows that efforts to send rescue teams, medical staff and other emergency personnel by non-EU countries even surpassed this effort, adding up to approximately 1,400 persons as of early Wednesday morning. While more than 40 countries and territories have sent or were preparing to send teams to …

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Chomerics has announced a thermal interface material with thermal cycling and high temperature  performance aimed at automotive components. Called ‘Gell 20’, it is a one-component material that requires no secondary cure and offers 2.4W/mK conductivity. Operation is over -55 to +200°C. “The material’s heavy paste-like consistency enables controlled dispensing, applied in variable thicknesses up to 4mm,” …

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