Amazon Lightsail now offers AlmaLinux 9, an open source, community owned and governed Linux distribution. AlmaLinux is an alternative for applications that require RHEL compatibility. Starting today, with just a few clicks, you can create a Lightsail virtual private server (VPS) of your preferred size that comes with AlmaLinux 9 preinstalled.
Set IMDSv2 as default for all new instance launches in your account
You can now set all new Amazon EC2 instance launches in your account to use Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) by default. IMDSv2 is an enhancement that requires session-oriented requests to add defense in depth against unauthorized metadata access. To set your instances to IMDSv2-only, you previously had to use the the IMDS Amazon Machine Image (AMI) property, set Instance Metadata Options during instance launch, or update instances after launch using the ModifyInstanceMetadataOptions API.
AWS B2B Data Interchange now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge
AWS B2B Data Interchange now enables fully automated, event-driven Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) workflows by publishing events to Amazon EventBridge for all successful and failed transformations. These events can be used to trigger downstream data integration processes, to automate additional processing of your transformed EDI documents, or to automatically send real-time status notifications to you and your trading partners.
AWS Batch now offers multi-container jobs via AWS Management Console
Today, AWS announces the general availability of full AWS Management Console experience for multi-container jobs in AWS Batch. The multi-container jobs feature makes it easier and faster for you to run simulations when testing complex systems like those used in autonomous vehicles and robotics. With the ability to run multiple containers in a job, you can benefit from the advanced scaling, scheduling, and cost optimization capabilities of AWS Batch without rebuilding your system into a complex monolithic container. Instead, you can use multiple smaller, modular containers that each represent different system components like a 3D virtual environment, robot perception sensors, or a data logging sidecar.
Amazon Linux announces new quarterly update with AL2023.4 and availability of EKS optimized AMI
Today we are announcing the availability of the fourth quarterly update for Amazon Linux 2024, AL2023.4 as well as the Amazon Linux 2023 EKS optimized AMI. Amazon EKS customers can now use the standard AL2023-based EKS optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with Managed Node Groups, self-managed nodes, and Karpenter, and is available across all supported version of Amazon EKS. To learn more about using Amazon Linux 2023 with EKS, see Amazon EKS optimized Amazon Linux AMIs .
Amazon Chime SDK provides API endpoints for media pipelines in Seoul, Mumbai, Sydney, Tokyo, Canada, and London
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging to their web applications. Media pipelines allows developers to capture the contents from an Amazon Chime SDK meeting. This captured content can then be sent to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket of their choice. The content can also be live streamed to reach a large audience via streaming platforms such as Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) or AWS Elemental MediaLive. Starting today, the Amazon Chime SDK now has media pipeline API endpoints in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (London).
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 51 new EC2 instance types
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 51 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation general-purpose instances (M6id), compute optimized instances (C7i), memory optimized instances (R7i, X2idn, X2iedn), high-performance-computing (HPC) optimized instances (Hpc7a), and metal sized instances for C7gd, R7gd and M7gd. This expands the total EC2 instance types supported by AWS Compute Optimizer to 702.
Ed Embraces The Migrants
It seems to me that we’re missing a trick with AI and migration, Ed confides to his diary. Cheap labour has been the key to countries’ economic success for centuries …
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2024 wearables set for 10.5% growth y-o-y
Q4 saw the market for devices used in wearables fall 0.9% y-o-y in the fourth quarter of 2023 (4Q23). The US, Europe and Japan markets fell but shipments grew 1.7% …
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DigiKey releases Prism4 to interact with remote target platforms
DigiKey has teamed up with LabsLand to release Prism4, a remote engineering hardware system. The distributor will be exclusively releasing the modular system, designed to build real-time, remote hardware systems, …
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