Amazon EC2 network performance metrics now supports a new metric to monitor available EC2 instance tracked connections, the ConnTrack Utilization metric. EC2 instance Security Groups act as stateful virtual firewalls to control incoming and outgoing traffic. These stateful firewalls track network connection information to enable return traffic to and from an instance to pass through. With this new metric customers have visibility into the number of ConnTrack entries remaining, which will allow them to proactively manage capacity and select the right instance size to meet emergent demand.

On January 17, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 19.0.2, 17.0.6, 11.0.18, 8u362 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.

Now customers can use EC2 Image Builder to create custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are hardened using Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks. EC2 Image Builder hosts CIS Benchmarks Level 1 for Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2019, and Microsoft Windows Server 2022. You no longer have to manage your own custom scripts for CIS Level 1 hardening of images with these operating systems. With this feature, you can also choose to automatically update AMIs to the latest version of the CIS standards as they become available.

Now customers can search AWS Marketplace Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) directly in the EC2 Image Builder Console and use those AMIs as base images in their image build workflows. Those AMIs can be accessed and used via the EC2 Image Builder Console, CLI, API, CloudFormation and CDK interfaces. This feature makes it easier for you to seamlessly track and integrate your AWS Marketplace AMI subscriptions in your image customization workflows.

It’s ironic when the libertarians turn to the authorities for a bail-out. All these crypto-gullibles who have lost their money in FTX are now relying on the established governmental agencies to get their money back. You’d think going to the authorities for a rescue would be against the principles of the gulliblerati who hailed crypto …

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I’m sure there are a few gamers among the Gadget Master readers, so this may be of interest: a study of the most energy efficient game controllers. The Top Five to be precise.

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ONE of the first applications of an English Electric U200/10 vacuum capacitor is in one of the BBC’s high-frequency transmitters at Daventry. So, 61 years ago, started a story in zelectronics Weekly’s edition of May 24th 1961 The Tory continues: The vacuum capacitor, which has a capacitance of 5.5 to 206 pF, replaced a conventional …

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The European Investment Bank (EIB), which is the financing institution of the European Union, has loaned €300 million to SES to fund software-defined satellites enabling service reconfiguration and instant in-orbit adjustment. SES is satellite telecommunications provider and the seven-year term loan will back “investments related to the design, procurement and launch” of three satellites to …

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An electric Italian Hypercar which aims to beat the EV world speed record is being built in Modena by Automobili Estrema which was founded in 2020 by Gianfranco Pizzutoat. Called Fulminea (meaning Lightning Fast) initial production of the car is underway and will be capped at 61 cars with a ticket price of  €1.961.000. The …

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Q4 PC shipments fell 28.5% y-o-y to  65.3 million units, says Gartner. This is the largest quarterly shipment decline since Gartner began tracking the PC market in the mid-1990s. For the year, PC shipments reached 286.2 million units in 2022, a 16.2% decrease from 2021. Higher PC inventory levels started building in the first half …

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