Starting today, customers can use Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud as a single place to track and manage cases (incidents) from AWS Support via the AWS Service Management Connector for JSM. AWS Support  enables users to create, track and resolve cases related to AWS resources in a central place, helping customers reduce the time to issue resolution. This dual sync integration between AWS Support cases and JSM incidents (issues) enables users to manage AWS Support cases while using their existing workflows in JSM Cloud.

AWS IoT Core, a managed cloud service that lets customers connect billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and routes trillions of messages to AWS services, announces support for Shared Subscriptions to its MQTT-based messaging broker service. MQTT is a device-to-device messaging communication standard widely used in IoT applications for device to cloud message delivery. AWS IoT Core supports both MQTT3.1.1 and the newer MQTT5 industry specifications allowing clients with either version to take advantage of this new feature seamlessly.

Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now also available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs. 

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway, a new cloud-connected software application that transmits live video between your on-premises multicast network and AWS Elemental MediaConnect. You can easily build end-to-end live video contribution and distribution workflows in AWS at scale.

Today, Amazon Redshift introduced additional performance enhancements that speed up string-based data processing by 5x to 63x compared to alternative compression encodings such as LZO or ZSTD. Amazon Redshift achieves this through vectorized scans over light weight CPU-efficient dictionary-encoded string columns that allows the database engine to operate directly over compressed data. These techniques are optimal on low cardinality string columns (CHAR or VARCHAR). Low cardinality string columns are columns that have up to a few hundred unique string values.

We are excited to announce Amazon GameLift now supports games built on Unreal Engine 5 with the latest update to the Amazon GameLift Server SDK. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. The latest version of the Amazon GameLift Server SDK 5.0 now supports Unity 2020.3, Unreal 4.26, Unreal 5.0, Go language, and custom C++ and C# engines. 

Between 2005 and 2022 TSMC spent $135 billion on 300mm fabs, writes Scotten Jones of IC Knowledge, now part of TechInsights, and this should rise to over $200 billion in 2024 and to $400 billion in 2030. Between 2005 and 2022, TSMC earned revenues of around $525 billion and profits of around $227 billion, In …

The post Cost Of 300mm Fab appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

When it came to this book – The Magic Conveyor Belt, by MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi – I came for the robotics and AI but I stayed for the supply chain story…

The post Gadget Book: The Magic Conveyor Belt appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

Thw share of global wealth held by the wealthiest 1% was nearly 46% in 2021, according to Credit Suisse’s annual Global Wealth report. Previous to the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was the country with the highest wealth concentration in the hands of the 1%,  with 1% of the Russian population holding nearly 60% of national …

The post The 1% appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

The CPO (Co-Packaged Optics) market is expected to reach $2.6 billion in 2033, says Yole Developpement. Broadcom remains the last CPO supplier, says Yole. Revenue generated by the CPO market reached around $38 million in 2022 and is expected to reach $2.6 billion in 2033, at a 46% CAGR for 2022-2033.   Projections of rapidly growing …

The post CPO market to grow at 46% 2022-33 appeared first on Electronics Weekly .