Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes (CDK8s ) is now Generally Available and ready for production usage with any conformant Kubernetes cluster. To ensure continued community involvement, cdk8s is also now an official CNCF Sandbox project and has moved from the AWS Labs GitHub organization to a dedicated home on GitHub, cdk8s-team .
New AWS Solutions Implementation: Automated Account Configuration
Automated Account Configuration helps you automate operational processes in an efficient, error-free, standardized and consistent way, to ensure that your AWS accounts are set up properly and with the necessary resources to meet your business and production needs. You can use the solutions implementation to configure and deploy the following business critical services:
- AWS Backup to centrally managed the backups of AWS services including Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS, and Amazon EFS.
- AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to automate the patching of managed instances such as EC2 instances.
AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service
AWS Console Mobile Application users can now use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on both the iOS and Android applications. The Console Mobile Application provides a secure and easy-to-use on-the-go solution for monitoring ECS clusters, services, configurations, tasks and container workloads. Customers can also stop ECS tasks and launch desired number of tasks for an ECS service.
AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances
Today we are announcing support for jumbo frames via the virtual ethernet framework in the AWS FPGA Developer kit. With this support, developers using Amazon EC2 F1 instances can use jumbo frames to get the maximum allowed networking bandwidth for the instance delivering up to double the networking performance.
AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager
AWS CloudFormation customers can now view operational data and quickly take action to resolve issues involving CloudFormation stack resources through Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager. Using this feature, customers can obtain an application view of resources provisioned via a CloudFormation stack. With the operational metrics, logs, alerts, and cost information obtained from the Application Manager Dashboard, developers can manage their stack resources efficiently throughout their lifecycle.
Crowdfunding Watch: The UDOO KEY for Edge IoT, based on Raspberry Pi RP2040
Here’s one from KickStarter, which is described by its maker SECO as a “flexible AI platform”. The UDOO KEY is a single-board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 and ESP32, and at Edge AI projects.
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Facebook’s Reach
Facebook is regularly used by more than a third of the world population. In 2020, Facebook reached the mark of 2.8 billion monthly active users, a dramatic increase from when it first started out. Since being founded in 2004, the share of the world population using it rose from roughly five percent in 2009 to …
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Enough of the DC-51 milling machine speed controller
At last, motor controller set up, milling machine re-assembled and working. Phew. All was not quite perfect, but pretty good. The installation (right) Plenty of insulation on the back of the controls and indicators, and the touch guard goes over everything after this 🙂 The test load (below) came out well – two borrowed 100W incandescent …
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IET selects first female Chair in its 150-year history
Dr Carol Marsh OBE – the Deputy Head of Electronics Engineering at the aerospace company Leonardo – has been selected by members of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Council to chair the organisation. The decision makes her the first female Chair of the IET in its 150-year history. Her tenure will run until …
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AI processors on a 24.7% CAGR 2020-26
The processor market is showing a 7.6% CAGR between 2020 and 2026, driven by consumer applications, says Yole Developpement, with AI processor revenue having a 24.7% CAGR during the same period. Mobile and consumer SoC shipments will have a 6.8% CAGR2020-2026. Processors for consumer markets are today mostly SoCs, which are integrating all required functions. AI …
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