Today, AWS Marketplace announced that Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can now add custom product dimensions and specify End User License Agreement (EULA) when authorizing their preferred consulting partners to resell their software to AWS Marketplace buyers. This launch enables ISVs and consulting partners to work together more efficiently to create a Consulting Partner Private Offer (CPPO) , which allows customers to purchase software solutions in AWS Marketplace directly from consulting partners. ISVs and consulting partners can now further simplify their operations and accelerate delivery to their customers.

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager, a capability in AWS Systems Manager (SSM) that helps you streamline and scale your remote server management processes, now offers the ability to generate at-a glance reporting on your SSM Managed Instances. The new feature enables you to customize the Fleet Manager information panel in which you can view alerts, status, and details of managed instances and download it for local viewing and analysis. 

AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) release 202108.00 includes the AWS SigV4 library and a refactored AWS IoT Fleet Provisioning client library for IoT applications. This release makes it easier for developers using C-SDK to authenticate inbound API requests to AWS services from IoT devices running HTTP, and provision IoT devices that do not have unique certificates.

Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application’s most expensive lines of code. Developers can use Amazon CodeGuru Profiler to understand the runtime behavior of their applications, identify and remove code inefficiencies, improve performance, and significantly decrease compute costs.

Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019, providing a Windows 10 desktop experience along with a 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus bundle option. The feature brings a refreshed Windows 10 desktop experience, and enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions.

AWS Transfer Family now supports configuring a client side externally accessible IP address on an FTPS/FTP server, allowing clients behind a firewall or a NAT router to connect to the server. Additionally, customers can now easily scale up their workloads by creating up to 50 servers within AWS Transfer Family in a single AWS account and region, a fivefold increase in the previously supported limit of 10 servers.

Today, we are excited to announce AWS DeepRacer model action space is now fully customizable. AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get started with machine learning (ML) through a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning, a 3D racing simulator, and a global racing league. Until now, AWS DeepRacer customers were modifying the steering angle and speed beyond the 20 options available in console by downloading, editing offline, and importing back into the console to improve their model’s performance. With a fully customizable action space, AWS DeepRacer console users can now specify both provided actions and add actions of their own to push their models performance to its limits! 

Starting today, AWS customers can use ED25519 keys to prove their identity when connecting to EC2 instances. ED25519 is an elliptic curve based public-key system commonly used for SSH authentication.

ELECTRONIC data procesing, like other subjects, has its fashionable OK words. A short time ago the OK word was ‘time-sharing’.  Now it is ‘data transmission.’ So, 60 years ago, started an article in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18th 1961 written by the computer pioneer Sir Maurice Wilkes who led the creation in Cambridge of …

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