AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. StackSets allows you to provision and manage deployment of cloud resources to multiple AWS accounts and Regions in a single operation. StackSets is integrated with AWS Organizations, so you can take advantage of automatic deployments whenever an AWS account enters an organization.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M1 Mac instances are now generally available (GA). Built on Apple Silicon Mac mini computers and powered by the AWS Nitro System, Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances deliver up to 60% better price performance over x86-based EC2 Mac instances for building and testing iOS and macOS applications. You still enjoy the same elasticity, scalability, and reliability that the secure, on-demand AWS infrastructure has offered to millions of customers for more than a decade. EC2 M1 Mac instances also enable native Arm64 macOS environments for the first time on AWS to develop, build, test, deploy, and run applications for Apple devices. As a developer who is rearchitecting your macOS applications to natively support Apple Silicon Macs, you can now provision Arm64 macOS environments within minutes, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from pay-as-you-go pricing to enjoy faster builds and convenient distributed testing. To learn more or get started, see Amazon EC2 Mac Instances.

AWS CloudFormation StackSets launched a new feature that allows you to deploy stack sets to selected AWS accounts in an Organizational Unit (OU) in a single operation. You can use this feature to target or skip stack sets deployment to AWS accounts within an OU. For example, you can use this feature to skip deployment of an AWS Config policy in AWS accounts that already have the policy within an OU. In a few clicks, you can re-deploy stack sets to those AWS accounts in which the earlier stack sets deployment had failed. Similarly, you can skip stack set deployment to suspended AWS accounts in an OU.

EC2 Auto Scaling now publishes predictive scaling policy’s forecasts as a CloudWatch metric, enabling you to analyze, monitor, and set alarms on the accuracy of predictive scaling. Predictive Scaling is a scaling policy that proactively increases the capacity of your Auto Scaling group ahead of predicted demand, improving the availability of your application while reducing the need to stay overprovisioned that otherwise would have increased your EC2 bill. As predictive scaling only increases the capacity for your Auto Scaling groups, applying it to your current scaling configurations strictly enhances your application availability. However, an inaccurate prediction can potentially increase your cost. Now, you can use the extensive list of CloudWatch features to measure accuracy of predictions, view forecasts using the familiar CloudWatch graphs, and also set automatic alarms and notifications when predictions are above your desired levels.

I am typing this on a Raspberry Pi 4 – running from an SSD to speed it up, otherwise random annoying paused make to too frustrating for work-level word processing. With the SSD, there are still random pauses, but they are negligible in duration. The Pi is in a rather nice case from Pi Hut, …

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Over the last three years, almost $30 billion had been invested in space startups, with 2021 smashing all previous records at $15.4 million, says BryceTech. Between 2015 to 2018 the amount was $11.1 billion and between 2000 and 2014 the amount was $6 billion.   This growth is even more impressive when compared to the combined …

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Dishi could have quoted another Chancellor – ER1’s Francis Bacon – in his resignation letter: “The higher a man climbs the more he shows his arse.” We all knew Boris had a particularly unsavoury arse but his Premiership has revealed just how outrageously he is prepared to behave. No one – wife, mistress, friend, colleague, …

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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Mihai Ciortuz, an IC Engineer at Crypto Quantique. Achievement His nominator, from Crypto …

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Astrocast, the Swiss nanosatellite IoT network operator, has announced a partnership with ArrowSpot, a supply chain logistics specialist. The agreement will see Astrocast integrating its Satellite IoT (SatIoT) technology into ArrowSpot’s tracking devices and its ArroWatch application. Specifically, Astrocast’s technology will be in ArrowSpot’s new ArrowTrack SAT device (pictured), which combines cellular and satellite communication …

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VIAVI has published the details of a recent O-RAN PlugFest VIAVI and Rohde & Schwarz partnered on O-RAN Fronthaul (OFH) conformance and 3GPP pre-conformance testing of O-RUs from Foxconn and other vendors. They also jointly validated an O-RU reference design with components from Analog Devices and Intel. The combined testbed includes the VIAVI TM500 O-RU Tester and …

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