Q3 PC shipments of 75.8 million units were up  9.4% YoY, according to  IDC. “The entire market is continuing on a very strong year, fueled by Windows 11 transition,” said …

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Momentus, an in-space transportation company, has been awarded a $5.1 million contract to enable, in-orbit,  a novel semiconductor manufacturing technology demonstration. The award is to support Nasa’s COSMIC (Commercial Orbital …

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Renesas is said to be looking at selling its timing business at a price close to $2 billion, reports Reuters. JP Morgan has been appointed to manage the sale. Possible …

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Navitas has revealed its proposals towards Nvidia’s ‘AI factory’ data centre concept in which power is distributed at 800Vdc, revealing both grid-voltage and 800V power converters. With power consumption estimated …

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Amazon Connect now provides configurable thresholds for schedule adherence, giving you more flexibility in how you track agent performance. You can define thresholds for how early or late agents start or end their shifts, as well as for individual activities. For example, agents can start their shift 5 minutes early and end 10 minutes late, or end their breaks 3 minutes late, without negatively impacting their adherence scores. You can further customize these thresholds for individual teams. For example, teams that handle contacts with long handle times can be given more flexibility in when they start their breaks. This launch enables managers to focus on true adherence violations and eliminates the impact of minor schedule deviations on agent performance, thus improving manager productivity and agent satisfaction.

This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect agent scheduling, click here .

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Osaka), AWS Canada (Central), and AWS Middle East (Bahrain) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System , which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads.

AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. These instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory compared to Graviton3-based Amazon M7g instances. AWS Graviton4 processors are up to 40% faster for databases, 30% faster for web applications, and 45% faster for large Java applications than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M8g Instances . To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton . To get started, see the AWS Management Console . 

Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports AWS PrivateLink . Customers can now access and manage their Profiles privately, without going through the public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely over the Amazon network. When Route 53 Profiles is accessed via AWS PrivateLink, all operations, such as creating, deleting, editing, and listing of Profiles, can be handled via the Amazon private network. 

Route 53 Profiles allows you to define a standard DNS configuration, in the form of a Profile, that may include Route 53 private hosted zone (PHZ) associations, Route 53 Resolver rules, and Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall rule groups, and apply this configuration to multiple VPCs in your account. Profiles can also be used to enforce DNS settings for your VPCs, with configurations for DNSSEC validations, Resolver reverse DNS lookups, and the DNS Firewall failure mode. You can share Profiles with AWS accounts in your organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Customers can use Profiles with AWS PrivateLink in regions where Route 53 Profiles is available today, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For more information about the AWS Regions where Profiles is available, see here .

To learn more about configuring Route 53 Profiles, please refer to the service documentation .

Amazon MSK Connect is now available in ten additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), Africa (Cape Town), and Israel (Tel Aviv).

MSK Connect enables you to run fully managed Kafka Connect clusters with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). With a few clicks, MSK Connect allows you to easily deploy, monitor, and scale connectors that move data in and out of Apache Kafka and Amazon MSK clusters from external systems such as databases, file systems, and search indices. MSK Connect eliminates the need to provision and maintain cluster infrastructure. Connectors scale automatically in response to increases in usage and you pay only for the resources you use. With full compatibility with Kafka Connect, it is easy to migrate workloads without code changes. MSK Connect will support both Amazon MSK-managed and self-managed Apache Kafka clusters.

You can get started with MSK Connect from the Amazon MSK console or the Amazon CLI. Visit the AWS Regions page for all the regions where Amazon MSK is available. To get started visit, the MSK Connect product page , pricing page , and the Amazon MSK Developer Guide .

AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors can now connect to remote SFTP servers through your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This enables you to transfer files between Amazon S3 and any SFTP server, whether privately or publicly hosted, while leveraging the security controls and network configurations already defined in your VPC. By utilizing your NAT Gateways’ bandwidth for file transfers over SFTP, you can achieve improved transfer performance and ensure compatibility with remote firewalls.

AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers over SFTP, FTP, FTPS, AS2 and web-browser based interfaces. You can now use Transfer Family SFTP connectors to connect with SFTP servers that are only accessible from your VPC, including on-premises systems, external servers shared over private networks, or in-VPC servers. You can present the IP addresses from your VPC’s CIDR range for compatibility with IP controls, and achieve higher bandwidth for large-scale transfers via your NAT gateways when connecting over the internet. All connections are routed through your VPC’s existing networking and security controls, such as AWS Transit Gateway, centralized firewalls and traffic inspection points, helping you meet data security mandates.

SFTP connectors support for VPC-based connectivity is available in select AWS Regions. To get started, visit the AWS Transfer Family console, or use AWS CLI/SDK. To learn more, read the AWS News Blog or visit the Transfer Family User Guide .

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers Microsoft applications with licenses included, providing customers with the flexibility to run these applications on AppStream 2.0 fleets. As part of this launch, AppStream 2.0 provides Microsoft Office, Visio, and Project 2021/2024 in both Standard and Professional editions. Each is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions for On-Demand and Always-On fleets.

Administrators can dynamically control applications availability by adding or removing applications from AppStream 2.0 images and fleets. End users benefit from a seamless experience, accessing Microsoft applications that are fully integrated with their business applications within their AppStream 2.0 sessions. This helps in ensuring that users can work efficiently with both Microsoft and business applications in a unified environment, eliminating the need for switching between different platforms or services.

To get started, create an AppStream custom image by launching an image builder with a Windows Server operating system image. Select the desired set of applications to be installed. Then connect to the image builder and complete image creation by following the Amazon AppStream 2.0 Administration Guide . You must use an AppStream 2.0 Image Builder that uses an AppStream 2.0 agent released on or after October 2, 2025 Or, your image must use managed AppStream 2.0 image updates released on or after October 3, 2025.

This functionality is generally available in all regions where AppStream 2.0 is offered. Customers are billed per hour for the AppStream streaming resources, and per-user per-month (non-prorated) for Microsoft applications. Please see Amazon AppStream 2.0 Pricing  for more information.