You can now monitor your Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics application using the new Amazon CloudWatch KPU-usage metric, which shows you the number of Kinesis Processing Units (KPU) consumed by your application. KPU is a unit of stream processing capacity comprised of 4 GB memory, 1 vCPU compute, and corresponding networking capabilities. The KPU-usage metric makes it easier for you to monitor increases and decreases in your application’s resource usage as the service elastically scales the number of KPUs required to perform your analysis.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Reserved Instances, an additional pricing option that offers significant savings on usage costs for the C4, M4, R4, and I3 instance families. Reserved Instances require a one- or three-year commitment, and have three payment options: All Upfront, Partial Upfront, and No Upfront. More details on Reserved Instance pricing can be found on our pricing page.

Starting today, Amazon Lightsail is available in Canada (Central), Europe (Paris) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions.

Starting today, customers with consolidated billing will receive linked account bills that show each account’s unblended rates and costs.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest release of Thinkbox Deadline, v10.0.15. This release includes support for 3ds Max 2019 and Vue 2016, and includes improvements to features such as Spot Fleet with AWS Portal and Usage Based Licensing.

You can now use Thinkbox Deadline with the latest versions of 3ds Max and Vue, enabling you to take advantage of the latest functionality in those tools without compromising Deadline in your rendering pipeline.

When creating an Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet with AWS Portal, it is now possible to launch fleets across all Availability Zones (AZs) in the region that the Infrastructure is launched in. There is also a new option to add specific Groups and/or Pools to the instances.

Additionally, an improvement has been made to how 3rd Party Usage Based Licensing (UBL) is consumed. If a 3rd Party UBL Limit for a specific application is applied to a job, render time will only be consumed when that application requests a license. This prevents unintended consumption when a 3rd Party UBL Limit is accidentally applied to the wrong job.

To download Deadline 10.0.15, visit the Downloads page . For more details, please see Deadline 10.0.13.6 release notes.

Esperanto Technologies will present at the RISC-V Workshop in Barcelona next week, (May 7-10) potential changes to high-performance RISC-V processors intended to eliminate speculation-based timing attacks, such as Spectre and Meltdown.  The California-based developer of RISC-V processors is proposing the use of RISC-V cores which minimise changes to the RISC-V ISA or platform specifications in order …

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You can now locally test and debug your AWS CodeBuild builds using the new CodeBuild local agent.  Previously, if you wanted to test your AWS CodeBuild build, you had to fully configure and run CodeBuild.  Now, you can simulate a CodeBuild environment locally to quickly troubleshoot the commands and settings located in the BuildSpe c file.  The agent also allows you to build your application locally before committing your changes to build on the cloud.

We are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved Instance prices for Amazon EC2 H1 Instances in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland) Regions by 15%. These changes will take effect immediately.

Coilcraft had introduced screened inductors intended to reduce losses in power converters running from 2 to 5MHz, and above, at high ripple current. “The use of high switching frequencies or high ripple current allows a corresponding lower inductance value, which results in a physically smaller part for the same electrical specs,” said the firm. “XEL50xx …

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I hope you saw our lead news item yesterday – EW BrightSparks 2018 receive awards at the IET. On a great, sunny day in Central London at the IET by the Thames we honoured the EW BrightSparks class of 2018. Thank you to all who attended, particularly the winners of 2017 who did show-and-tell demos …

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