Elon Musk told the Tesla annual shareholders meeting last week that he is thinking about making the company vertically integrated by building and operating its own fabs. Showing off his …

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The European Space Agency’s HydroGNSS Scout satellites are ready for launch it has announced. Surrey Satellite Technology was the prime contractor for the project. The series of final checks included …

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DigiKey has officially launched an Indian subsidiary, DigiKey Electronics & Automation Trading Private Limited. It will be operating out of the distributor’s Global Capability Center (GCC) in Bengaluru (also known …

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Stewart Lane is to be president of UK trade body the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA). “Stewart brings to the role an exceptional breadth of experience across the technology spectrum,” said …

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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced .NET Data Provider Driver is now generally available for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible databases. This advanced database driver reduces RDS Blue/Green switchover and database failover times, improving application availability. Additionally, it supports multiple authentication mechanisms for your database, including Federated Authentication, AWS Secrets Manager authentication, and token-based authentication with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

The driver builds on top of Npgsql PostgreSQL, native MySql.Data, and MySqlConnector drivers to further enhance functionality beyond standard database connectivity. The driver is natively integrated with Aurora and RDS databases, enabling it to monitor database cluster status and quickly connect to newly promoted writers during unexpected failures that trigger database failovers. Furthermore, the driver seamlessly works with popular frameworks like NHibernate and supports Entity Framework (EF) with MySQL databases.

The driver is available as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license. Refer the instructions on the on the GitHub repository to get started. 

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) announces support for the Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA). With this new capability, you can create an elliptic curve asymmetric KMS key or data key pairs to sign and verify EdDSA signatures using the Edwards25519 curve (Ed25519). Ed25519 provides 128-bit security level equivalent to NIST P-256, faster signing performance, and small signature size (64 bytes) and public key sizes (32 bytes).

Ed25519 is ideal for situations that require small key and signature sizes, such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and blockchain applications like cryptocurrency.

This new capability is available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. To learn more about this new capability, see Asymmetric key specs section in the AWS KMS Developer Guide.

Amazon Cognito user pools now supports AWS PrivateLink for secure and private connectivity. With AWS PrivateLink, you can establish a private connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon Cognito user pools to configure, manage, and authenticate against your Cognito user pools without using the public internet. By enabling private network connectivity, this enhancement eliminates the need to use public IP addresses or relying solely on firewall rules to access Cognito. This feature supports user pool management operations (e.g., list user pools, describe user pools), administrative operations (e.g., admin-created users), and user authentication flows (sign in local users stored in Cognito). OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow (Cognito managed login, hosted UI, sign-in via social identity providers), client credentials flow (Cognito machine-to-machine authorization), and federated sign-ins via SAML and OIDC standards are not supported through VPC endpoints at this time.

You can use PrivateLink connections in all AWS Regions where Amazon Cognito user pools is available, except AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Creating VPC endpoints on AWS PrivateLink will incur additional charges; refer to AWS PrivateLink pricing page for details. You can get started by creating an AWS PrivateLink interface endpoint for Amazon Cognito user pools using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs), AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), or AWS CloudFormation. To learn more, refer to the documentation on creating an interface VPC endpoint and Amazon Cognito’s developer guide . 

Starting today, VPC Lattice allows you to specify a custom domain name for a resource configuration. Resource configurations enable layer-4 access to resources such as databases, clusters, domain names, etc. across VPCs and accounts. With this feature, you can use resource configurations for cluster-based and TLS-based resources.

Resource owners can use this feature by specifying a custom domain for a resource configuration and sharing the resource configuration with consumers. Consumers can then access the resource using the custom domain, with VPC Lattice managing a private hosted zone in the consumer’s VPC.

This feature also provides resource owners and consumers control and flexibility over the domains they want to use. Resource owners can use a custom domain owned by them, or AWS, or a third-party. Consumers can use granular controls to choose which domains they want VPC Lattice to manage private hosted zones for.

This feature is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where VPC Lattice resource configuration is available. For more information, please read our blog or visit the Amazon VPC Lattice product detail page and Amazon VPC Lattice documentation .