EPC has designed a GaN-based motor driver for robot limb joints. EPC91120, as it is know, is a evaluation board implementing a three-phase brushless dc motor driver in a 32mm …

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Fuchs Lubricants has designed a coolant fluid for the Open Compute Project single-phase immersion coolant requirement. Called Renolin FECC 10 SYN, it has UL 2417 certification. “We felt it was …

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Amazon Connect now lets you configure aliases for email addresses, so customers see trusted identities when sending or receiving messages, helping maintain a consistent brand experience and simplify email management. For example, when forwarding a customer-facing address such as support@company.com to an address in Amazon Connect, you can configure an alias to ensure customers continue to see support@company.com as the sender.

Amazon Connect Email is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) regions . To learn more and get started, please refer to the help documentation , pricing page , or visit the Amazon Connect website.

Amazon CloudFront now supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for Anycast Static IP configurations. Previously, customers could only use IPv4 addresses when using CloudFront Anycast static IP addresses. With this launch, customers using CloudFront Anycast Static IP addresses receive both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for their workloads. This dual-stack support allows customers to meet IPv6 compliance requirements, future-proof their infrastructure, and serve end users on IPv6-only networks.

Typically, CloudFront uses rotating IP addresses to serve traffic. Customers implementing Anycast Static IPs receive a dedicated list of static IP addresses for their workloads. CloudFront Anycast Static IPs enables customers to provide a dedicated list of IP addresses to partners and their customers for enhancing security and simplifying network management across various use cases.

CloudFront supports IPv6 for Anycast Static IPs from all edge locations. This excludes Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. Learn more about Anycast Static IPs here and for more information, please refer to the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide . For pricing, please see CloudFront Pricing .

AWS Launch Wizard now offers a guided approach to sizing, configuring, and deploying Windows Server EC2 instances with Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition installed from your own media. AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server Developer Edition allows you to simplify launching cost-effective and full-featured SQL Server instances on Amazon EC2, making it ideal for developers building non-production and test database environments.

This feature is ideal for customers who also have existing non-production databases running SQL Server Enterprise Edition or SQL Server Standard Edition, as migrating the non-production databases to SQL Server Developer Edition will reduce SQL license costs while maintaining feature parity.

This feature is available in all supported commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

To learn more, see the AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server User Guide and blog post here .

AWS Glue Schema Registry  (GSR) has now expanded the programming language support for GSR Client library to include C# support along with existing Java support. C# applications integrating with Apache Kafka or Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) , Amazon Kinesis Data Streams , and Apache Flink or Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink  can now interact with AWS Glue Schema Registry to maintain data quality and schema compatibility in streaming data applications.

AWS Glue Schema Registry, a serverless feature of AWS Glue , enables you to validate and control the evolution of streaming data using registered schemas at no additional charge. Schemas define the structure and format of data records produced by applications. Using AWS Glue Schema Registry, you can centrally manage and enforce schema definitions across your data ecosystem. This ensures consistency of schemas across applications and enables seamless data integration between producers and consumers. Through centralized schema validation, teams can maintain data quality standards and evolve their schemas in a controlled manner.  

C# support is available across all AWS regions  where Glue Schema Registry is available. Visit the Glue Schema Registry developer guide , and SDK  to get started with C# integration.

 

AWS is announcing the general availability of new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R8a instances. R8a instances, feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to R7a instances.

R8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth compared to R7a instances, making these instances ideal for latency sensitive workloads. Compared to Amazon EC2 R7a instances, R8a instances provide up to 60% faster performance for GroovyJVM, allowing higher request throughput and better response times for business-critical applications.

Built on the AWS Nitro System using sixth generation Nitro Cards, R8a instances are ideal for high performance, memory-intensive workloads, such as SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications. R8a instances offer 12 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes. Amazon EC2 R8a instances are SAP-certified, and providing 38% more SAPS compared to R7a instances.

R8a instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) regions. To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console . Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information visit the Amazon EC2 R8a instance page .

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Multi-Region Replication in the Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions. With this expansion, customers can now replicate their Amazon Keyspaces tables to and from these Regions, enabling lower latency access to data and improved regional resiliency.

Amazon Keyspaces Multi-Region Replication automatically replicates data across AWS Regions with typically less than a second of replication lag, allowing applications to read and write data to the same table in multiple Regions. This capability helps customers build globally distributed applications that can serve users with low latency regardless of their location, while also providing business continuity in the event of a regional disruption.

The addition of Multi-Region Replication support in Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) enables organizations operating in these regions to build highly available applications that can maintain consistent performance for users across the Middle East and Asia Pacific. Customers can now replicate their Keyspaces tables between these regions and any other supported AWS Region without managing complex replication infrastructure.

You pay only for the resources you use, including data storage, read/write capacity, and writes in each Region of your multi-Region keyspace. To learn more about Amazon Keyspaces Multi-Region Replication and its regional availability, visit the Amazon Keyspaces documentation.

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals Model Context Protocol or MCP Server for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) now integrates CloudWatch Synthetics canary monitoring directly into its audit framework, enabling automated, AI-powered debugging of synthetic monitoring failures. DevOps teams and developers can now use natural language questions like ‘Why is my checkout canary failing?’ in compatible AI assistants such as Amazon Q, Claude, or other supported assistants to utilize the new AI-powered debugged capabilities and quickly distinguish between canary infrastructure issues and actual service problems, addressing the significant challenge of extensive manual analysis in maintaining reliable synthetic monitoring.

The integration extends Application Signals’ existing multi-signal (services, operations, SLOs, golden signals) analysis capabilities to include comprehensive canary diagnostics. The new feature automatically correlates canary failures with service health metrics, traces, and dependencies through an intelligent audit pipeline. Starting from natural language prompts from users, the system performs multi-layered diagnostic analysis across six major areas: Network Issues, Authentication Failures, Performance Problems, Script Errors, Infrastructure Issues, and Service Dependencies. This analysis includes automated comparison of HTTP Archive or HAR files, CloudWatch logs analysis, S3 artifact examination, and configuration validation, significantly reducing the time needed to identify and resolve synthetic monitoring issues.
Customers can then access these insights through natural language interactions with supported AI assistants.

This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is offered. Customers will need access to a compatible AI agent such as Amazon Q, Claude, or other supported AI assistants to utilize the AI-powered debugging capabilities.

To learn more about implementing AI-based debugging for your synthetic monitoring, visit the CloudWatch Application Signals MCP Server documentation.

Buyers and sellers in India can now transact locally in AWS Marketplace, with invoicing in Indian Rupees (INR), and with simplified tax compliance through AWS India. With this launch, India-based sellers can now register to sell in AWS Marketplace and offer paid subscriptions to buyers in India. India-based sellers will be able to create private offers in US dollars (USD) or INR. Buyers in India purchasing paid offerings in AWS Marketplace from India-based sellers will receive invoices in INR, helping to simplify invoicing with consistency across AWS Cloud and AWS Marketplace purchases. Sellers based in India can begin selling paid offerings in AWS Marketplace and can work with India-based Channel Partners to sell to customers.

AWS India will facilitate the issuance of tax-compliant invoices in INR to buyers, with the independent software vendor (ISV) or Channel Partner as the seller of record. AWS India will automate the collection and remittance of Withholding Tax (WHT) and GST-Tax Collected at Source (GST-TCS) to the relevant tax authorities, fulfilling compliance requirements for buyers. During this phase, non-India based sellers can continue to sell directly to buyers in India through AWS Inc., in USD or through AWS India by working through authorized distributors.

To learn more and explore solutions available from India-based sellers, visit this page . To get started as a seller, India-based ISVs and Channel Partners can register in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal . For more information about buying or selling using AWS Marketplace in India, visit the India FAQs page and help guide .