Starting today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances in additional regions. These instances are optimized to efficiently run compute-intensive, high performance computing workloads, such as computational fluid dynamics, reservoir modeling, weather simulations, and finite element analysis. Hpc6a instances offer up to 65% better price performance over comparable Amazon EC2 x86 based, compute-optimized instances. With Hpc6a instances, you can significantly lower the cost of your HPC workloads, while taking advantage of the elasticity and scalability of AWS.

AWS Backup Audit Manager now allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies for Amazon S3 and AWS Storage Gateway. Using AWS Backup Audit Manager, you can now continuously evaluate the backup activity of your Amazon S3 and AWS Storage Gateway resources and generate audit reports that can help you demonstrate compliance with organizational best practices or regulatory standards.

Amazon Connect now allows you to use Amazon Connect Customer Profiles in the Africa (Cape Town) AWS region. When a customer contacts your customer service department, you can now provide your agents and interactive voice response (IVR) solutions with up to date information about the customer, enabling faster and more personalized customer service. Customer Profiles brings together customer information (e.g, address, purchase history, contact history) from multiple applications such as Salesforce, Amazon S3, and ServiceNow into a unified customer profile. 

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now support natively storing and accessing data in the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. With this launch, application developers can effortlessly store, fetch, and update their JSON data inside Redis without needing to manage custom code for serialization and deserialization. Using ElastiCache and MemoryDB, you can now efficiently retrieve and update specific portions of a JSON document without needing to manipulate the entire object, which can help improve performance and help reduce cost. You can also search your JSON document contents using the JSONPath query syntax.

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, now supports root squash. This administrative feature adds an additional layer of file access control on top of the current network-based access control and POSIX file permissions that FSx for Lustre provides. Using the root squash feature, you can restrict root level file system access from clients that access an FSx for Lustre file system as root.

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The WFH debate goes on. According to a report by Adobe, 51% of enterprise employees would like to have complete flexibility when it comes to their schedule, in contrast to only 16% of respondents who said their ideal work week would have no flexibility at all. This desire for a flexi approach was found in all …

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Edinburgh-based rocket company Skyrora has successfully completed a fully 3D-printed rocket engine test, marking a key milestone in its contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). Specifically, at its Gorebridge site in Midlothian, it completed a 70kN rocket engine test as part of ESA’s Commercial Space Transportation Services and Support Programme (CSTS). The company says …

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The memory market will grow to over $260 billion in 2027, says Yole Developpement, with DRAM reaching $158.5 billion and NAND reaching $96 billion. The production ramp-up of China-made memory is opening up new business opportunities for OSATs.  “The stand-alone memory market has been expanding throughout the last two years,” says Yole’s Simone Bertolazzi, “revenue …

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Researchers at imec are developing high-speed electronic and photonic integrated circuits for 100 to 130Gbaud transceivers, both for intensity-modulated direct-detect (IMDD) and for coherent optical transceivers. For a coherent transceiver, the specifications and functionality for the optics and electronics are much more demanding. The receiver DSP is also significantly more complex (compared to IMDD). Scheme …

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