Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) is now available in the EU (Ireland) region. 

AWS CloudFormation has updated support for three services. You can now provision the following features using CloudFormation:

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) updated support

• Specify one or more transition rules for S3 buckets with versioning enabled. These define how S3 manages objects during their lifetime, such as automated transition of less-frequently accessed objects to low-cost storage alternatives and scheduled deletions.

AWS Lambda updated support

• Enable Lambda functions to access resources in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
• Publish a version of a Lambda function. Versioning allows you to better manage your in-production Lambda function code by enabling you to publish one or more versions of your Lambda function.
• Create an alias that points to a Lambda function version that you specify. An alias is a pointer to a specific Lambda function version.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) updated support

• Define the properties of Amazon Elastic Block Store storage volumes attached to your Amazon EMR instances, such as their configuration or whether they are I/O optimized.

AWS Config is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. AWS Config is a fully managed service that gives you an inventory of your AWS resources, notifies you when the configurations of your resources change, and lets you audit the history of the configurations for those resources to enable security and governance.

Dept. of Environmental Services investigation revealed major violations of the Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Act by Analytical Services Inc., located in Williston, Vt.

Support includes partnerships with United Way and Habitat for Humanity and employee-led initiatives.

The International Water Association (IWA) and International Desalination Association (IDA)
have agreed to cooperate in the coverage of desalination the IWA World Water Congress &
Exhibition 9 – 14 October 2016 in Brisbane, Australia.

I have been discussing control algorithms for a power supply and idly looking for some easy hardware on which to try the technique – hardware small enough to build into a prototype. My default tends to be to 8bit PICs, but someone in the discussion pointed to the ATtiny25/45/85 family as a source of PWM …

Want a fast PWM quickly? – consider Arduino

After many years of loyal service, my Weller TCP 24 soldering iron needs a new bit – I think Pb-free solder has got the better of it. So I thought I would get help choosing a new bit from Weller’s website. Now, and it is probably me rather than Weller, I can’t find anything that …

Weller doesn’t seem to make it easy

EW called for volunteers who have never coded to run through the first exercise in the micro:bit guide for children – the Don’t steal… exercise. There are no children in Electronics Weekly Towers, so an adult bravely stepped up. She has experience writing web pages in HTML, but none in any programming language. And, having …

EW test – micro:bit might lead to frustration

Vantablack, the world’s blackest material, from Surrey NanoSystems, no longer has to be placed by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) as it can now be sprayed on. It is based on carbon naontubes. “Called Vantablack S-VIS, the spray paint greatly widens the applications potential, making it possible to coat much larger and more complex shapes and structures, as …

Blackest coating now sprayable