Today, AWS announced the opening of new AWS Direct Connect locations in Melbourne, Australia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Zurich, Switzerland. By connecting your network to AWS at one of these locations, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle and Amazon Aurora now support Database Activity Streams in AWS regions Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) . Database Activity Streams provides a near real-time stream of database activities to help meet your relational database for compliance and regulatory requirements. When integrated with third party database activity monitoring tools, Database Activity Streams can monitor and audit database activity to provide safeguards for your database.

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports Pause I/O for Amazon EBS volumes as a new FIS action type. With the new fault action, customers with highly available applications can test their architecture and monitoring, such as operating system timeout configurations and CloudWatch alarms, to improve resiliency to storage faults. Customers can observe how their application stack responds, and tune their monitoring and recovery process to improve resiliency and application availability.

You can now convert previously saved Simple Monthly Calculator (SMC) estimates in AWS Pricing Calculator. 

At the 1970 IEDM, a start-up company presented the world’s first 1kb NMOS RAM. It had a channel length of 5µm  a threshold voltage of 1.25V. Access time was 100nsec with cycle time 400nsec. The chip established the superiority of NMOS over PMOS for memories. A customer was lined up, yields were  good and the company’s …

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The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…

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The letter written to the PM asking him to set a strategy for the UK semiconductor industry is naive. Saying that the vision is to make the UK the next Silicon Valley is just daft – we’ll never have the weight of VC money or the tech infrastructure to  achieve that. To use the threat …

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Panasonic has introduced an insulated electric screwdriver for use on live circuits. Called EYED11SA “the typical red and yellow design has been established to easily identify tools that are particularly insulated and the right choice for working on machinery or devices that cannot be easily or entirely separated from electric circuits”, according to the company. …

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IAR Systems has added PX5 RTOS support to its Embedded Workbench for Arm development tool suite – a development tool-chain with a C/C++ compiler and debugging. “The PX5 Industrial RTOS is an advanced 5th-generation RTOS designed for the most sophisticated and developed embedded applications, and is deterministic regardless of system load,” said IAR. It “helps embedded …

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