Today, AWS Backup announces support for local time zone selection in your backup plan, allowing you to manage your backup schedule according to your local time zone. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. Now, when creating or editing existing backup plans, you can select a backup window time zone, eliminating the need for manual time zone conversions from UTC. 

Using AWS Elemental MediaTailor you can now enable or disable non-linear overlay ads at a per-session level.

The Amazon VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) Plugin now supports the Kubernetes NetworkPolicy resource . Customers can use the same open-source Amazon VPC CNI to implement both pod networking and network policies to secure the traffic in their Kubernetes clusters. This reduces the need to run additional software for network access controls and will work alongside all existing VPC CNI capabilities.

AWS Transfer Family now offers customers the option to require both SSH key and password authentication when users connect to their SFTP servers. This new method of authentication allows customers to add an additional level of protection to their data when authorizing users to securely access their files.

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your datacenter and on-premises locations in Iceland and Uruguay.

AWS Neuron is the SDK for Amazon EC2 Inferentia and Trainium based instances purposely-built for generative AI. Today, with Neuron 2.13 release , we are launching support for Llama 2 model training and inference, GPT-NeoX model training and adding support for Stable Diffusion XL and CLIP models inference. 

Over the past two decades a shift in the global economic and geopolitical landscape has seen the BRICS nations become  a growing counterweight to the dominance of the G7. According …

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GALLIUM arsenide tunnel diodes announced by Texas Instruments are the first commercially available gallium arsenide devices in the world. So, 63 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 12, 1960 The story continues: …

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Vehicle manufacturers have long dreamt of reducing weight by replacing heavy wiring looms with radio frequency technology. However, achieving this wireless nirvana is not as simple as it first appears, …

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At a meeting yesterday, the US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and China’s Minister of  Commerce Wang Wentao  agreed to: Establish a new commercial issues working group, a consultation mechanism involving …

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