Amazon Location Service adds two new map styles for the base map service from our data provider HERE Technologies. HERE Imagery provides high quality satellite imagery with global coverage and HERE Hybrid displays the road network, street names and city labels over the satellite imagery. Amazon Location Service now has a total of 11 map styles to support a wide range of use cases for interactive maps in applications.

Amazon SageMaker Multi-Model Endpoint (MME) is fully managed capability of SageMaker Inference that allows customers to deploy thousands of models on a single endpoint and save costs by sharing instances on which the endpoints run across all the models. Until today, MME was only supported for machine learning (ML) models which run on CPU instances. Now, customers can use MME to deploy thousands of ML models on GPU based instances as well, and potentially save costs by 90%.

Amazon SageMaker expands access to eight new Graviton2 and Graviton3-based machine learning (ML) instance families so that customers have more options for optimizing their cost and performance when deploying their ML models on SageMaker. Now, customers can use ml.c7g, ml.m6g, ml.m6gd, ml.c6g, ml.c6gd, ml.c6gn, ml.r6g, and ml.r6gd for Real-time and Asynchronous Inference model deployment options.

AWS DataSync now supports the use of self-signed certificates when connecting to object storage locations via HTTPS. When configuring an object storage location, you can specify a self-signed X.509 (.pem) certificate that the DataSync agent will use to secure the TLS connection to your self-managed object storage server. With this launch, you can now configure DataSync to use secure HTTPS connections with self-managed object storage systems that do not provide certificates from a trusted Certificate Authority (CA).

Aurora MySQL 2.11, compatible with MySQL 5.7, is now generally available. Aurora MySQL 2.11 includes security updates and also supports R6i instances powered by 3rd generation Xeon Scalable processors.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TiB (u-24tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region and high Memory instances with 18TiB (u-18tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. These instances give customers greater flexibility for instance usage and procurement – customers can start using them with On Demand, Reserved Instance, and Savings Plan purchase options. With u-24tb1 and u-18tb1, customers have a choice of 24TiB and 18TiB of memory, respectively – both offering 448 vCPUs, 100Gbps network and 38Gbps EBS bandwidth. 

Like autonomous cars, the VR/AR revolution was the NBT that didn’t happen. According to Statista’s Advertising & Media Outlook, users of AR and VR devices are still few and far between, with growth projections until 2027 nowhere near the scale that would make mixed reality “the next computing platform”, at least for now. Statista estimates …

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TWO new techniques for handling stored digital information have been announced by IBM. One is a magnetic core memory for computers, which contains built-in “short cuts” to stored data, and the other is an experimental punched-card memory unit that electronically reads out punched data at high speed from special IBM cards. So, 61 years ago, …

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Ofcom is looking for public responses to a report which suggests eroding net neutrality by allowing ISPs to provide more premium services. Responses can be made up to January 13th. Scrapping EU regulations post-Brexit could give the internet companies the chance to sell superior service like lower latency and discounted tariffs in off-peak hours. “The …

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Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence forecasts a 6%  decline in the semiconductor industry next year driven by falling PC and smartphone sales. Third quarter 2022 data on PC and smartphone shipments shows a continuing year-to-year decline: IDC estimates PC units in 3Q 2022 were down 15% from a year earlier, matching the 2Q 2022 decline. IDC’s …

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