Amazon CloudWatch is introducing enhancements to the console experience, which improve dashboard data visualizations and console navigation. The enhancements include new dashboard widgets as well as more options to access frequently used dashboards, log groups and alarms.

Amazon Redshift has launched support for Snapshot Isolation for concurrent transactions. Amazon Redshift prevents dirty reads, non-repeatable reads, and phantom reads according to the SQL standards. The two options that Amazon Redshift offers to serialize transactions are SERIALIZABLE and SNAPSHOT ISOLATION. The SERIALIZABLE option will implement strict serializability, where a transaction could fail if the result could not be mapped to a serial order of the concurrently running transactions. The SNAPSHOT ISOLATION option will allow higher concurrency, where concurrent modifications to different rows in the same table would complete successfully. Under both options, transactions will continue to operate on the latest committed version, or a snapshot, of the database.

Developers can now use the AWS Encryption SDK for .NET to help protect their data. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt their data when building applications using the .NET developer platform.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Predictive scaling can proactively scale out your Auto Scaling group to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. (Previously, Predictive Scaling was only available via AWS Auto Scaling Plans and only in public regions.) Support in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region allows U.S. government agencies and contractors to run sensitive workloads by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements.

It’s been three years since Raspberry Pi opened their very own bricks and mortar store in Cambridge, and to celebrate, pop-up versions of the store will be appearing around the UK in three new places.

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INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp.expect to have the first commercial application of cryogenics in computers in 1964. So, 61 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition on May 23rd 1961. The story continues: An executive of the firm’s Research Laboratory at Yorktown Heights, New York, told a seminar on solid-state devices at California Institute …

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The first companies have earned ‘Zhaga-NFC’ inter-operability certification for NFC readers intended to be used with suitably-enabled smart LED luminaires. NFC (‘near-field communication’) is one of several techniques being used to read data from, and changing of settings of, LED drivers in the field. Zhaga specifications are divided into ‘Books’. Book 24 and 25 define …

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Infineon has released a pair of high power IGBTs, both blocking 4.7kV, in ceramic PPI (press pack IGBT) packaging. The 125mm pole piece diameter housing is hermetically sealed and specifically designed to withstand system-induced failures. “This PPI is specifically designed for transmission and distribution applications, and is ideal for high current MMCs [modular multi-level converters], …

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Northumbria University’s engineering teaching facilities have been upgraded by funding from Office for Students. Opening the upgraded centre last Week was the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, George Freeman pictured with the university’s Vice-Chancellor Prof Andrew Wathey. “This laboratory is a fantastic addition to the University of Northumbria’s world-class facilities,” said Freeman at the …

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The  advanced packaging market’s revenue is expected to reach $57.2 billion in 2027, says Yole Developpement. ASE was No.1, followed by Amkor, with  Intel third, JCET fourth and TSMC fifth. The market’s total 2022  revenue was $32.1 billion. 5G, automotive infotainment/ADAS , AI, data centre, and wearable applications continue to drive the market. “The major OSATs …

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