I wrote about the Fritzing tool the other day, and came across this interesting book dedicated to the topic – Fritzing For Inventors.

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Riedon of California has announced current-sensing shunt resistors from 1A to 10kA. The RCS, RSH, RSI, RSJ, RSL, and RSN series of precision shunt resistors have four-point Kelvin connections and go as low as 5μΩ for the 10,000A 50mV RSL-10000-50. Copper-nickel-manganese Manganin alloy is used for temperature stabuility, and standard tolerance is 0.25%, with some series offering …

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Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now a HIPAA Eligible Service and included to the AWS Business Associate Addendum (BAA). This announcement means you can use ElastiCache for Redis to store, process, and access protected health information (PHI) and power secure healthcare applications.  

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now allows you to reconfigure the volume type and Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) upon snapshot restore. You can restore or point-in-time-restore (PiTR) to a different storage type than the source instance. When restoring the database instance, you can easily change the storage type and PIOPS in the Amazon RDS Console .

Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows applications running in containers to directly access metadata about their environment.

Device and init flags can now be specified in task definitions for Docker containers managed by Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS). 

AWS Marketplace, which lists over 4,000 software listings from over 1,250 popular software vendors across 35 product categories, has announced that customers can now receive specific pricing and end-user license terms with Seller Private Offers. With this feature, software sellers participating in the Enhanced Data Sharing (EDS) program can extend any AWS account a version of their product, enabling volume discounts through AWS Marketplace. This means that AWS customers can enjoy all the same benefits of consolidated billing, cost analysis, and subscription management of AWS Marketplace while paying a lower privately negotiated price visible only to that customer and the seller.  

Amazon CloudWatch is excited to announce that you can now hide your Auto Scaling Alarms in the CloudWatch console. Auto Scaling Alarms are CloudWatch alarms that use actions to dynamically scale your Auto Scaling groups to handle the load for your application. To learn more about Dynamic Auto Scaling, please visit here . With a single click, you can now hide all your Auto Scaling alarms from being displayed in the CloudWatch console along with your other CloudWatch alarms. In addition, the Alarms counter on the sidebar that shows the number of alarms in each state will also reflect your selection. Please note the hidden alarms will continue to perform the Auto Scaling actions as before. 

The July 2017 Oracle Patch Set Update (PSU) is now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle. To learn more about the Oracle PSUs supported on Amazon RDS, visit the Amazon RDS patch update documentation .