Starting today, you can prevent Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) from accidental deregistration by marking them as protected. A protected AMI cannot be deregistered until you explicitly disable deregistration protection. Prior to today, you could recover accidentally deregistered AMIs by onboarding onto Recycle Bin. However, if the AMIs were actively being used to launch instances, unintentional deregistrations could lead to production outages until you recovered those AMIs from Recycle Bin. Now by marking your critical AMIs as protected, you can proactively safeguard your AWS environments against accidental AMI deregistrations. To further safeguard your environments, you can optionally enable a 24-hour cooldown period during which a protected AMI can’t be deregistered even after you disable protection. AMI deregistration protection is now available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and AWS China Regions, and can be enabled through EC2 Console, CLI, and APIs. To learn more, please visit documentation here.

Starting today, you can check when your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) were last used to launch EC2 instances by simply describing your AMIs, enabling you to efficiently filter and track your active AMIs. Prior to today, you had to write complex scripts to query which of your AMIs were actively used to launch instances. These scripts became increasingly cumbersome and error-prone as the number of AMIs grew. Now you can easily verify if your AMIs are active – based on when they were used to launch instances – by simply describing those AMIs. You can now easily create advanced filtering scripts through which you can track your active AMIs at-scale and make informed decisions about deprecating, disabling, and deregistering your AMIs. This feature is now available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and AWS China Regions. You can view the last launched time for your AMIs via EC2 Console, CLI, and API. Learn more by visiting the documentation here.

Thanks to CanadaCIS for this one – the ten easiest countries from which to get citizenship: Rank Country Average % of non-EU residents who acquired citizenship 1 Sweden 9.3% 2 …

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Americans’ views of China have worsened since  2018, according to Data by Gallup. The deterioration started with the U.S.-China trade war   under President Donald Trump, continued during Covid  which originated in …

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Silicon carbide chip company SemiQ has begun a known-good-die screening program for SiC mosfets “that delivers electrically sorted and optically inspected SiC technology ready for back-end processing and direct die …

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Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is spending Y6.5bn (~$41m) on a quantum computer from Massachusetts-based QuEra Computing. It will be installed alongside an Nvidia-based supercomputer …

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HBK is introduced a flange-mount sensor for tensile and compressive forces. Called U93A, and a more accurate update on the U93 sensors, there are two basic versions: 35mm diameter for …

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The 74th annual IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) will take place May 28-31, 2024 at Denver’s Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, with more than 1,500 scientists, engineers …

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Blaize, the El Dorado Hills AI chip developer,  has raised $106 million from existing investors, including Bess Ventures, Franklin Templeton, DENSO, Mercedes Benz, and Temasek and new investors Rizvi Traverse, …

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Quantum researchers from Sweden and Canada will join forces to find a solution to the problem of cosmic radiation affecting quantum qubits in the world’s deepest located clean room (pictured) …

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