Yamaichi is aiming at many-cell battery monitoring with a board-to-cable connector for FFCs (flexible flat cables) or FPCs (flexible printed circuit boards). It is a two part connector: one part …

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Infineon is claiming ‘world’s smallest GSMA-compliant’ e-SIM IC for its OC1230, which measures 1.8 x 1.6 x 0.4mm and is made on a 28nm process. Inside is an Arm v8 …

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Georg Steinberger, chairman of European distributors organisation FBDi, has died suddenly from a cardiac arrest at the age of 64. He “leaves a deep void as an expert in the …

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Katja Ziegler is to step down as MD and CFO of ESG Elektroniksystem und Logistik on 31 March 2025. “We regret Katja Ziegler’s decision, as we will lose an excellent …

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Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region.

Amazon EFS is designed to provide serverless, fully elastic file storage that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage capacity and performance. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files. Because Amazon EFS has a simple web services interface, you can create and configure file systems quickly and easily. The service is designed to manage file storage infrastructure for you, meaning that you can avoid the complexity of deploying, patching, and maintaining complex file system configurations.

For more information, visit the Amazon EFS product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.

Amazon Redshift is announcing the general availability of Multi-AZ deployments for RA3 clusters in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) AWS regions. Redshift Multi-AZ deployments support running your data warehouse in multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ) simultaneously and continue operating in unforeseen failure scenarios. A Multi-AZ deployment raises the Amazon Redshift Service Level Agreement (SLA) to 99.99% and delivers a highly available data warehouse for the most demanding mission-critical workloads.

Enterprise customers with mission critical workloads require a data warehouse with fast failover times and simplified operations that minimizes impact to applications. Redshift Multi-AZ deployment helps meet these demands by reducing recovery time and automatically recovering in another AZ during an unlikely event such as an AZ failure. A Redshift Multi-AZ data warehouse also maximizes query processing throughput by operating in multiple AZs and using compute resources from both AZs to process read and write queries.

Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ is now generally available for RA3 clusters through the Redshift Console, API and CLI. For all regions where Multi-AZ is available, see the supported AWS regions .

To learn more about Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ, see the Amazon Redshift Reliability page and Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ documentation page .
 

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available with PostgreSQL version 16.6 compatibility. This release contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community , along with Aurora Limitless-specific security and feature improvements such as support for GIN operator classes with B-tree behavior (btree_gin) and support for DISCARD.

Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database makes it easy for you to scale your relational database workloads by providing a serverless endpoint that automatically distributes data and queries across multiple Amazon Aurora Serverless instances while maintaining the transactional consistency of a single database. Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database offers capabilities such as distributed query planning and transaction management, removing the need for you to create custom solutions or manage multiple databases to scale. As your workloads increase, Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database adds additional compute resources while staying within your specified budget, so there is no need to provision for peak, and compute automatically scales down when demand is low.

Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm).

For pricing details, visit Amazon Aurora pricing . To learn more, read the Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database documentation and get started by creating an Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database in only a few steps in the Amazon RDS console .
 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) I7ie instances are available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density (highest in the cloud) for storage optimized instances and offer up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I3en instances.

I7ie are high density storage optimized instances, ideal for workloads requiring fast local storage with high random read/write performance at very low latency consistency to access large data sets. These instances are available in 9 different virtual sizes and deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

To learn more, visit the I7ie instances page .
 

AWS Transfer Family now allows you to customize the directories for your Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) files, including the inbound AS2 messages, message disposition notifications (MDN), and other metadata files. This enables you to separate your AS2 messages from the MDN files and status files generated by the service, and automate downstream processing of the messages received from your trading partners.

AS2 is a business-to-business messaging protocol used to transfer Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) documents across various industries, including healthcare, retail, supply chain and logistics. You can now specify separate directory locations to store your inbound AS2 messages, the associated MDN files, and the JSON status files generated by the service. This option overrides the service-default directory structure for storing these file types, enabling easier automation of downstream processing for your AS2 messages using other AWS services. For example, you can directly store inbound AS2 messages in the input directory used for AWS B2B Data Interchange , facilitating automatic conversion of X12 EDI contents into common data representations such as JSON or XML.

Support for custom directory locations for AS2 files is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Transfer Family is available . To learn more about AWS Transfer Family’s AS2 offering, visit the documentation and take the self-paced workshop .
 

Amazon Q Business, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work, now offers capabilities to answer questions and extract insights from images uploaded in the chat.

This new feature allows users to upload images directly to the Amazon Q Business chat and ask questions related to the content of those images. Users can seamlessly interact with visual content, enabling them to use image files as a data source for a richer image analysis experience. For instance, a user can upload an invoice image and promptly ask Amazon Q Business to categorize the expenses. Similarly, a business user can share a technical architecture diagram to request an explanation of it or to ask other specific questions related to its components and design.

The new visual analysis feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Q Business is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Q Business product page .

To get started with this new feature, visit the AWS Chat Service console or refer to our documentation for integration guidelines.