AWS launches Amazon EKS managed node groups for Windows containers to automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of Windows nodes (running on Amazon EC2 instances) for EKS Kubernetes clusters. With this launch, Windows-based applications will automatically provision and register the Amazon EC2 instances that provide compute capacity. Now customers can create, automatically update, or terminate the Windows nodes for their cluster with a single operation. 

With Amazon Athena, you can run SQL queries on data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without the need to pre-process or move data to another storage solution. Starting today, you can use Athena to query real-time streaming data held in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka.

AWS Backup now supports schedule-based network bandwidth throttling for VMware. This allows you to optimize network bandwidth used for backups and restores between your VMware environment and AWS. You can throttle the network bandwidth used by the Backup gateway for VMware backups, based on a schedule you set on the Backup gateway. This enables you to regulate network bandwidth use during peak hours to minimize network congestion and prevent you from using all your available bandwidth during peak hours.

AWS Backup adds support for VMware vSphere tags, enabling you to protect your VMware virtual machines (VMs) using tag-based policies, simplifying data protection across your on-premises vSphere and AWS environments. This allows you to import your VMware vSphere tags to AWS, where they can be automatically associated with a backup plan via tag-based policies.

Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region.

The Amazon Chime SDK now offers a new resource for builders to get started with CodeSandbox. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers embed intelligent real-time communication capabilities into their applications. CodeSandbox is an online code editor and prototyping tool that makes creating and sharing web apps faster. In one-click, builders using the Amazon Chime SDK for virtual meetings can review ready-made code required to set up a meeting, at the same time, seeing a prototype of the meeting experience in real-time.

It’s always surprising how people underestimate the difficulties, challenges and complexities of the chip business. Back in the late ‘80s a group of Japanese steel companies were looking enviously at the semiconductor industry. The chip industry then had average annual growth rates of 20% a year – something undreamt of by the steel industry for …

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78 years ago one American general wrote to another American general: “Occupation of German scientific and industrial establishments has revealed the fact that we have been alarmingly backward in many fields of research, if we do not take this opportunity to seize apparatus and the brains that developed it and put this combination back to …

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NXP has added to its portfolio of end-to-end Matter solutions with the sampling of the RW612 and the K32W148 devices. The devices combine advanced edge processing capabilities with integrated security to streamline development, simplify designs and reduce costs for Matter-enabled smart home devices. The recently launched Matter standard, developed within the Connectivity Standards Alliance by …

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Continuing its Industrial IoT (IIoT) theme – following the release of the Arduino PLC IDE – Arduino has announced the Arduino Opta, which it describes as an “easy-to-use micro PLC with Industrial IoT capabilities”. Designed in partnership with Finder – an industrial and building automation device manufacturer – it’s aimed at professional developers wanting to …

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