AWS IoT Device Defender helps you keep connected devices secure. AWS IoT Device Defender alerts you whenever devices violate a user-defined behavior for security metrics gathered from devices and AWS IoT Core.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add a speech-to-text capability to your applications. Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription of audio in the following new languages: French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. These languages expand upon the existing 5 languages already available in Amazon Transcribe: US English, US Spanish, Australian English, British English and Canadian French. 

Today we are introducing partition placement groups, a new Amazon EC2 placement strategy that helps reduce the likelihood of correlated failures for large distributed and replicated workloads such as HDFS, HBase and Cassandra running on EC2. Partition placement groups spread EC2 instances across logical partitions and ensure that instances in different partitions do not share the same underlying hardware, thus containing the impact of hardware failure to a single partition. In addition, partition placement groups offer visibility into the partitions and allow topology aware applications to use this information to make intelligent data replication decisions, increasing data availability and durability.

Partition placement groups are available through AWS API and CLI to customers at no additional charge and is offered in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), South America (São Paulo), China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) regions.

To learn more about partition placement groups, see the user guide for EC2 Placement Groups.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports additional access control with tag-based permissions. This allows you to control access based on tags using your existing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and taking advantage of the global condition keys for RequestTag/tag-key, ResourceTag/tag-key, and TagKeys. 

This Quick Start deploys Varnish Cache Plus (VCP), a caching and HTTP acceleration technology by Varnish Software, on the AWS Cloud in about 30 minutes.

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now compatible with the Amazon DynamoDB TransactWriteItems and TransactGetItems APIs. You can integrate your DynamoDB application with DAX without making changes to your existing application logic.

Siglent Technologies have introduced a new member in its Portfolio of Oscilloscopes. TheSDS2000X-E Oscilloscope offers a 2 GS/s Sample Rate and will be available with bandwidths of 200 MHz and 350 MHz. With all its standard features and functions, it is suitable for analogue circuit design and fit well for the needs of any service …

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Purdue researchers are using the 2D material molybdenum ditelluride to make memory ICs. “We haven’t yet explored system fatigue using this new material, but our hope is that it is both faster and more reliable than other approaches due to the unique switching mechanism we’ve observed,” says Purdue professor  Joerg Appenzeller. A system using molybdenum …

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An energy storage project developed by X – an Alphabet lab – has been spun off into a start-up company calked Malta. Malta has been backed with $26 million in funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures whose investors include Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Masa Son. Concord New Energy Group of Hong Kong …

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Despite its political woes, Huawei has won top spot in the IHS IoT Platform Vendor rankings. Cisco, Microsoft, and PTC  were No.s 2, 3 and 4. Completing the top ten were:, Alibaba, AWS, GE, IBM and SAP. “Huawei was the leading IoT platform vendor, based on its market-leading number of devices under management, the high …

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