Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager is available in Asia Pacific (Osaka).

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer makes it easier for customers to author secure and functional permissions by providing over 100 policy checks with actionable recommendations during policy authoring. Now, IAM Access Analyzer extended policy validation by adding new policy checks that validate conditions included in IAM policies. These checks analyze the condition block in your policy statement and report security warnings, errors, and suggestions along with actionable recommendations. These checks help you set fine-grained permissions by guiding you to apply conditions in a secure and functional way. For example, IAM Access Analyzer validates that policies that specify tagging conditions include the required tag information in the condition. 

We are delighted to announce the addition of Tag Tamer to the AWS Solutions Implementations portfolio. AWS Solutions Implementations help you solve common problems and build faster using the AWS platform.

We are excited to announce that AWS now offers new framework-specific Deep Learning AMI (DLAMI). Today we launched framework-specific DLAMIs for PyTorch 1.9.0 and TensorFlow 2.5.0, with support for Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 20.04. The AWS DLAMIs provide machine learning practitioners and researchers with the infrastructure and tools to accelerate deep learning in the cloud, at any scale. These optimized new images are up to 60% smaller in size, accelerating the time for machine learning practitioners to launch DLAMIs on AWS. We will continue to release and support DLAMI in the previous format that includes multiple frameworks and operating systems within a single AMI.

We are excited to announce an update to Amazon GameLift, an AWS managed service. Trusted by game companies from all over the world like Wargaming, Metalhead Software, and Illfonic, GameLift FlexMatch launched in 2017 as a feature that uses a powerful matchmaking algorithm and flexible developer-defined rules to create high-quality matches at AWS scale. 

When using AWS DataSync to copy data between Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems and Server Message Block (SMB) shares, you can now copy object metadata describing NTFS system access control lists typically used by administrators to define the operations on files and folders that generate audit logs. With this launch, DataSync can now copy all access control entries (ACEs) for files and folders between your SMB shares and FSx for Windows File Server file systems as well as between FSx for Windows File Server file systems.

The crypto thing gets weirder and weirder. It’s understandable why the Bitcoin price falls when the cops claw back ransom money thereby showing the system isn’t secure, because it was supposed untraceability by the authorities which encouraged criminals to invest in it. But to attribute the recent Bitcoin price drop to China cracking down on …

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A deal was agreed yesterday to permit data-flows between the UK and EU. Formal adoption of the decisions under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Law Enforcement Directive (LED) allows personal data to flow freely from the EU and wider European Economic Area (EEA) to the UK. The decisions mean that UK businesses …

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Construction of 19 new high-volume fabs will have started by the end of this year, says SEMI’s World Fab Report, and next year construction will start on another 10. China and Taiwan lead with eight fabs each, followed by the Americas with six, Europe/Mideast with three, and Japan and Korea with two each (Figure 1). 300mm …

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Crypto Quantique, a specialist in quantum-driven cybersecurity for the IoT, has announced independent verification that its CMOS semiconductor IP for second-generation, physically unclonable functions (PUFs) is immune to side-channel attacks when used to create unique, immutable and unforgeable fingerprints for CMOS chips. A 3-month study was conducted by eShard, an independent cybersecurity testing house. @Our …

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