Flex Power Modules has upgraded the sugar-cube-size 80A BMR510 point-of-load converter power stage that it announced in February. “BMR510 now utilises advanced materials of magnetic core, yielding high inductance in a small package size, allowing lower switching frequency operation than would be necessary with the gapped ferrite cores previously used,” it explained. “This in turn …

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Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is extending the NVMe read cache support that is already included with Multi-AZ file systems to Single-AZ file systems. With the read cache, you can drive up to 650,000 IOPS and 6 GB/s of read throughput when reading your frequently-accessed data.

Sensitive data detection and processing in AWS Glue is now generally available in 18 additional AWS Regions: US West (Northern California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (Sao Paulo).

AWS CloudShell is now a System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant service. You can now use AWS CloudShell for workloads that are subject to SOC compliance. AWS SOC reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives. The purpose of these reports is to help you and your auditors understand the AWS controls established to support operations and compliance.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, today announced four new features that make it even easier to configure and manage your file systems.

AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) has achieved FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can now use AWS IAM Identity Center to centrally manage workforce access to workloads that require FedRAMP High categorization level.

Amazon Location Service is now Health Information Trust Alliance Common Security Framework (HITRUST CSF) certified, aligning with customer requirements for security and privacy. Customers can use Amazon Location Service as part of their AWS environment to help them meet the requirements of the HITRUST CSF. In addition to HITRUST CSF, Amazon Location Service is compliant with SOC, PCI, ISO, HIPAA, and OSPAR. 

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now authorized for Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Levels 4 and 5 (DoD SRG IL4 and IL5) in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Today’s launch builds on Amazon FSx’s existing DoD SRG IL2 authorization in AWS US Regions, FedRAMP Moderate authorization in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon), and FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Arabic, Cantonese, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, and Finnish. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With these new languages, you can build and expand your conversational experiences to better understand and engage your customer base.

Amazon Neptune Workbench is now available in  Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Starting today, you can use the Neptune Workbench to create Neptune notebook instances in these regions for visualizing graph data in Neptune, accessing tutorials, and running code samples using an interactive coding environment.