Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached has added support for Memcached version 1.6.12. This version is a cumulative update and contains all changes and improvements between version 1.6.6 to 1.6.12.

AWS Launch Wizard announces support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Now you can use a simple console wizard to deploy SQL Server FCI on Amazon EC2 with FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the shared storage. This feature will save you time and effort replacing a complex manual deployment process with a simple to use, guided wizard that accelerates the migration of your on-premises SQL Server workloads that rely on shared storage.

Amazon Lightsail now supports creating deployments for Lightsail container services using the container images on Amazon ECR private repositories. This launch will enable you to run containers with the simplified experience of Lightsail while utilizing the images you may already have in your private ECR repositories, thus enabling greater portability.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of new general purpose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances. M6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state disk (SSD) block-level storage, and deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to M5d instances. Compared to previous generation instances, M6id instances offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU and 34% lower cost per TB. M6id instances also come with always-on memory encryption by using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). Like all modern EC2 instances, M6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers most of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. M6id instances are ideal for workloads that require a balance of compute and memory resources along with high-speed, low-latency local block storage, including data logging and media processing. M6id instances will also benefit applications that need temporary storage of data, such as batch and log processing, and applications that need caches and scratch files.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the new compute optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances. C6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state drive (SSD) block level storage, and deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to C5d instances. Compared to previous generation instances, C6id instances offer up to 138% higher TB storage per vCPU and 56% lower cost per TB. C6id instances also come with always-on memory encryption by using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). Like all modern EC2 instances, C6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers most of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. C6id instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads, including those that need access to high-speed, low-latency local storage, such as video encoding, image manipulation, and other forms of media processing. C6id instances will also benefit applications that need temporary storage of data, such as batch and log processing, and applications that need caches and scratch files.

There’s something of Ozymandias about this one from a Martian desert, taken by NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter. Look on my works, ye mighty…

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For Steve Bush it was the Cortex-M85, which has Arm’s Helium extensions for scalar, DSP and machine learning acceleration, plus TrustZone and ‘pointer authentication/branch target identification’…

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There was once a famous scientist who was put in charge of developing a nuclear bomb by Adolf Hitler. Famous for Uncertainty, the scientist has left people uncertain to this day whether he made his best efforts to make the bomb or whether he worked to make sure it would never get made by Germany. …

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CUI Devices has announced a collection of IP67 rated waterproof tactile switches. They are: TS03 (left of picture) 6x6mm, 5-9.5mm actuator, 160 – 260g force, through-hole TS05 6×6 mm, 4.3-8mm actuator, 100-260g force, surface-mount TS08 (right of picture) 6x6mm, 4.3mm actuator, 160g force, surface-mount TS19 3x2mm, 0.6mm actuator, 70-240g force, surface-mount All are SPST (single-pole …

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NMITE, the UK’s new Higher Education Institution aimed specifically at engineering, has expanded its courses with a BEng (Hons.) Integrated Engineering degree. Based in Hereford, it had already welcomed its first students onto an MEng Integrated Engineering course in September 2021. The delivery of the BEng course will be similar to the MEng, says NMITE, …

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