Encryption at rest helps enhance the security of your Amazon DynamoDB data by encrypting your data at rest using the service-default AWS Key Management Service  key. Encryption at rest greatly reduces the operational burden and complexity involved in protecting sensitive data.

If you’re a king, your smartphone can now replace your taster. The rest of us can use it for allergens, cholesterol, calories, or other dietary detections.

The Smart City Protocol whitepaper describes the basics of how municipalities can adopt a standardized abstraction layer above proprietary SSL-based network protocols enabling smart-city applications to operate across products and systems from multiple vendors.

Seoul Semiconductor has filed a patent infringement suit against big-box retailer Fry’s Electronics, while Signify continues to repurchase shares, Nichia wins a round with Everlight, and Sensor Electronic Technology Inc files against companies selling UV sterilizers.

AWS AppSync is a serverless backend for web and mobile applications that supports real-time data synchronization and offline capabilities at enterprise scale. AWS AppSync simplifies data access across AWS services to a single endpoint and supports multiple data storage options, including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS (using Lambda resolvers), and HTTP data sources. AWS AppSync is powered by GraphQL, an open standard allowing applications to request, change and subscribe to the exact data they need in a single network request.

With today’s launch, AWS AppSync is now available in 10 AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (Ireland).

To learn more, see the AWS AppSync webpage.

You can now launch Amazon EMR clusters with the next generation of Compute Optimized C5d instances, General Purpose M5d instances and Memory Optimized R5 and R5d instances from the Amazon EC2 family. These instances are available for EMR clusters with release 5.13.0 and later. Compute Optimized C5d instances feature cost-effective high-performance compute processors and also comes equipped with local NVMe-based SSD storage. They are ideal for compute-intensive big-data applications that require ultra-low-latency local storage. General Purpose M5d instances offer a balance of compute, memory and networking and comes equipped with high-throughput local NVMe-based SSD storage to cater to a broad range of workloads. Memory Optimized R5 instances have high memory to vCPU ratio and are ideal for memory-intensive analytics workloads. R5d instances share their specs with R5 instances and also include local NVMe-based SSD storage. These instances are available in various sizes. To learn more about these instances please visit the Amazon EC2 instance page . For Amazon EMR pricing for these instances, visit the Amazon EMR pricing page .

Amazon EMR supports these instances in the following regions:

C5d and M5d instances are supported in US East (N.Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe(Ireland), and Canada regions.

R5 instances are supported in US East (N.Virginia and Ohio), US West(Oregon), and Europe(Ireland) regions.

R5d instances are supported in US East (N.Virginia and Ohio) and US West (Oregon) regions.

 

You can now authenticate container images from any private registry to run task with AWS Fargate.

Previously, if you wanted to run Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) tasks that used images from a private registry, you were restricted to the EC2 launch type configuration. This is because with EC2 launch type, you could authenticate the underlying instance to a private registry by modifying your instance’s environment variables. Since Fargate allows you to run containers without having to manage underlying EC2 instances, you couldn’t authenticate these instances to any private registry except Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR).

Now, you can use any private registry of your choice with Fargate or EC2 launch types. You will first store your private registry credentials in AWS Secrets Manager. You will then provide the secret-manager ARN or the secret name as container level parameter while registering your task definition. To learn more about how you can use private registries with AWS Fargate, read our documentation or check out our blog .

Please visit the AWS region table to see all AWS regions where AWS Fargate is available.

Smartphone app for Android or Apple devices delivers simple access to core lighting-industry data that designers/specifiers and others working in the LED and SSL sectors would find useful on a day-to-day basis.

The end user pays a monthly fee and owns the lights at the end of the three-year LaaS deal, with an option to start another contract with new luminaires.

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