You can now monitor the system time accuracy for your Amazon ECS tasks running on AWS Fargate . For time-sensitive workloads running on Fargate, this gives customers the ability to monitor the clock error bound, which is used as a proxy for clock error, to know if the difference between reference time and system time exceeds a threshold. This capability leverages Amazon Time Sync Service to measure clock accuracy and provide the clock error bound for containers.
Amazon ECS Service Discovery Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) launches integrated service discovery in the AWS GovCloud (US ) Regions.
Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify
Today, we are announcing that Amplify Geo for JavaScript is generally available, following our initial Developer Preview release in August. Amplify Geo enables frontend developers to quickly add location-aware features to their web applications. Extending existing Amplify use case categories like Auth, DataStore and Storage, Amplify Geo includes a set of abstracted client libraries built on top of Amazon Location Service, and includes ready-to-use map UI components based on the popular MapLibre open-source library. Amplify Geo also updates the Amplify Command Line Interface (CLI) tool to make it simple for people who aren’t familiar with AWS to achieve common mapping use cases by provisioning all required cloud services
Now programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts
Today, we are making it easier for customers to view and update the alternate contacts on their AWS accounts using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS SDK. Customers can now programmatically keep their billing, operations, and security contacts for their accounts up to date to ensure that they receive important notifications about their AWS accounts. Support for additional account settings will be available in future releases.
Amazon Monitron launches iOS app
Today, we are announcing the launch of Amazon Monitron iOS app . The iOS app joins the existing Android app, giving customers more options for using Amazon Monitron. iPhone users can now use the Amazon Monitron iOS app to set up their sensors and gateway devices, and receive reports on operating behavior and alerts to potential failures in their equipment.
Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.8.1
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.8.1 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 2.8.1 includes several bug fixes. To learn more about these fixes you can review the Apache Kafka release notes for 2.8.1 .
Weird Stuff In China
China is doing some weird stuff these days. It’s clobbered its companies by introducing new regulations, rubbishing its billionaires, scuppering IPOs and international capital raises, letting its chip companies go bankrupt and now it’s into power cuts which are affecting factory output including suppliers to Tesla and Apple. Shortages of coal are apparently the problem. …
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What I didn’t know about lock nuts
Would you believe it, the thin nut is supposed to go under the thick nut when the two are used as an anti-loosening measure. Why didn’t I know that? – I am sure plenty of you did. Here is an article explaining why from a company called Bolt Science.
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Fable: The Semi Company Which Got Bought By A Car Company
78 years ago a company invented a high frequency transistor which it used to build a computer for the US Navy, the first all-transistor car radio, the first all-transistor phonograph and the first battery-powered portable transistorised TV. The company built the first active repeater satellite and, in 1963, designed, built and installed all the consoles …
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Silicon Catalyst UK and NMI hook up
SiliconCatalyst UK and the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) are to collaborate to help IC startups. Silicon Catalyst has created a network that lowers the capital expenses associated with the design and fabrication of silicon-based IC’s, sensors, and MEMS devices by providing advanced design tools and services from a comprehensive network of In-Kind Partners (IKPs). Its …
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