AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway.

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and featuring NVIDIA T4G Tensor Core GPUs are now available in Europe (Frankfurt). G5g instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for Android game streaming use-cases. With G5g instances, developers can run Android games natively, encode the rendered graphics, and stream the game over network to end user devices. This helps simplify development effort and can lower the hourly cost per stream by up to 30% compared to G4dn instances. G5g instances are also ideal for machine learning developers who are looking for cost-effective inference, have ML models that are sensitive to CPU performance, and leverage NVIDIA’s AI libraries. Embedded developers using Arm-based compute with GPU acceleration can also leverage G5g instances to scale their CI/CD and simulation workloads in the cloud.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now delivers up to 3x faster machine learning (ML) model training time, enabling rapid prototyping and faster time-to-value for business outcomes. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. 

AWS announces the retirement of IAM actions for AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles under aws-portal service prefix, purchase-orders:ViewPurchaseOrders, and purchase-orders:ModifyPurchaseOrders and is replacing them with fine-grained service specific actions. This launch gives AWS customers more control over access to Billing, Cost Management, and Account services. These new permissions will also provide a single set of IAM actions that govern console and programmatic access to these services.

Starting today, AWS WAF is available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. This is the second region where AWS WAF is available in the Middle East, joining the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region and giving customers more choice and flexibility.

Today Amazon Pinpoint is launching a new web form experience in the Amazon Pinpoint console to help make it easier for Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon SNS customers to register SMS Sender IDs in Singapore. Customers are no longer required to create a support ticket to register Sender IDs for Singapore. A Sender ID is an alphanumeric originator that identifies the sender of an SMS message, e.g. “AMAZON”. 

Today, AWS CloudFormation updates the language extension transform to support default values and additional intrinsic functions in Fn::FindInMap. Customers can use these features to minimize the size of their CloudFormation templates, and improve their readability. The language transform extends CloudFormation template language with functions such as Fn::Length, Fn::JsonToString, and more. Customers can modularize their templates into groups with different attributes in Parameters and Mappings, and use Fn::FindInMap to refer to attributes of these groups. For example, you can use Fn::FindInMap for EC2 resource type with a Mappings section containing a single map, RegionMap, that associates AMIs with AWS Regions to your EC2 instances. With these language enhancements, you can use intrinsic functions such as Fn::Split, Fn::Select, and others within Fn::FindInMap. Previously, Fn::FindInMap only supported Ref intrinsic functions. Additionally, you can define string or list type default values in Fn::FindInMap. To see the list of supported intrinsic functions and learn about Fn:FindInMap, refer to the user guide .

An eye-catching Lego construction – using an Arduino Uno and OLED display, representing a food dispenser, in miniature…

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Intel put up a foil at IEDM showing its progress on delivering five process nodes in four years. “I was skeptical Intel could meet the original Intel accelerated timeline, then they pulled it in (18A moved from 2025 to the second half of 2024), and so far, they are meeting it,” comments Scotten Jones in …

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I got given a 5kW heater for the workshop, powered by diesel fuel and colloquially known as a ‘Chinese diesel heater’ (right) – they seem to be based on designs from German companies Webasto and Eberspacher. I finally got around to installing over the cold snap before Christmas, putting the heater unit inside the workshop …

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