Starting today, you can now add tags to your AWS Elemental MediaLive resources. MediaLive tags allow you to categorize your inputs, channels, and input security group resources in different ways, such as by cost center or owner, which simplifies cost allocation for live channels.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now enables you to deploy your instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) providing better availability for your domains. If you enable replicas for your Elasticsearch indices, Amazon Elasticsearch Service distributes the primary and replica shards across nodes in different AZs to maximize availability. If you have configured dedicated master nodes while using multi-AZ deployment, they are automatically placed into three AZs to ensure that your cluster can elect a new master even in the rare event of an AZ disruption. 

AWS Cost Explorer allows you to visualize and monitor your reservations both at a high level (e.g., cost savings associated with all Amazon EC2 reservations) or for highly-specific requests (e.g., reservation utilization associated with all regional Amazon EC2 reservations owned by a particular linked account). Starting today, you can access information about the normalized units associated with your reservations in AWS Cost Explorer, making it easier to understand how your reservations (including Size Flexible RIs ) are applied to your instance usage.

Developers keep at it, although broad commercialization of light-delivered Internet could still be a couple years away.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to release a major update to the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on AWS Quick Start. This Quick Start automatically deploys AD DS on the AWS Cloud and now includes Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and AWS Systems Manager Automation documents.

You can now seamlessly run machine learning and high performance computing applications by scheduling Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks with Amazon EC2 GPU instances in the same manner that you do CPU and Memory. You can also pin these GPUs instances to containers for workload isolation.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) message filtering now supports blacklisting of multiple string values, using the anything-but operator. This makes it easier to set criteria for filtering messages.

AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET Core is now generally available enabling .NET developers to get an end to end view of requests as they travel through their applications. 

University of Houston researchers have developed rubbery type materials for stretchable electronics. ‘We report fully rubbery integrated electronics from a rubbery semiconductor with a high effective mobility, obtained by introducing metallic carbon nanotubes into a rubbery semiconductor composite,’ say the researchers, ‘this enhancement in effective carrier mobility is enabled by providing fast paths and, therefore, …

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Mobile Semiconductor, the 13 year-old Seattle memory compiler vendor, has come up with a 55nm memory compiler for inexpensive applications like IoT. The company claims that the 55nm compiler has one of the highest density footprints in the industry  reducing the die area by 15-33% compared to previous 55nm compilers. “We believe that our success …

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