Amazon Web Services (AWS) is incredibly excited to announce the new Amazon MSK Service Delivery specialization for AWS partners that help customers migrate and build real-time streaming analytics solutions with fully managed Apache Kafka. Amazon MSK provisions your servers, configures your Apache Kafka clusters, replaces servers when they fail, orchestrates server patches and upgrades, architects clusters for high availability, ensures data is durably stored and secured, sets up monitoring and alarms, and runs scaling to support load changes. With MSK Serverless, getting started with Apache Kafka is even easier. It automatically provisions and scales compute and storage resources and offers throughput-based pricing, so you can use Apache Kafka on demand and pay for the data you stream and retain.

We are excited to announce the new AWS Glue Delivery specialization, which validates AWS Partners with deep expertise and proven success delivering AWS Glue for data integration, data pipeline, and data catalogue use cases. AWS Glue is a scalable, serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. With the ability to scale on demand, AWS Glue helps customers focus on high-value activities that maximize the value of their data.

We are thrilled to announce the new AWS Graviton Delivery specialization for AWS partners that excel in enabling the best price performance for workloads in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This specialization validates AWS Partners that help customers accelerate and scale their adoption of AWS Graviton to achieve better workload performance and cost savings.

We are thrilled to announce the new Amazon SageMaker Ready specialization, which validates world-class AWS Partner software products that integrate with Amazon SageMaker and help customers build machine learning solutions. AWS Partners offerings in the specialization include Data Platforms, Data Pre-Processing & Feature Stores, ML Frameworks, MLOps tools, and Business Decisions & Applications. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that enables data scientists and developers to quickly build, train, and deploy ML models for any use case into a production-ready hosted environment.

AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights is now generally available, helping customers and sellers streamline the complex third-party software risk assessment process by enabling sellers to make security and compliance information available in AWS Marketplace. A unified web-based dashboard gives governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams access to security and compliance information, such as data privacy and residency, application security, and access control. Vendor Insights serves buyers who need help to efficiently validate that third-party software meets their business compliance needs. Vendor Insights also serves sellers who want to showcase their strong security posture, while reducing the operational burden from responding to buyer requests for risk assessment information.

We are announcing the preview of AWS Data Exchange for AWS Lake Formation, a new feature that enables data subscribers to find and subscribe to third-party data sets that are managed directly through AWS Lake Formation. This feature is intended for data subscribers who want to easily integrate third-party data directly into their data lake as well as data providers who want to use AWS Lake Formation and AWS Data Exchange to help streamline their data licensing operations. 

We are announcing the preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3, a new feature that enables data subscribers to access third-party data files directly from data providers’ Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. This feature is intended for subscribers who want to easily use third-party data files for their data analysis with AWS services without needing to create or manage data copies, as well as data providers who want to offer in-place access to data hosted in their Amazon S3 buckets.

I had cause to demonstrate the magnetic field around a wire, and ended up with an 8A current in a vertical wire, battling with the Earth’s magnetic field. My borrowed idea was to put a ring of eight little (20mm) compasses around the wire on a non-magnetic platform. What happened was that: the compasses almost …

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Thanks to Gartner for this one – the top ten spenders on semis last yesr: 1 1 Apple 68,269 11.7 54,180 26.0 2 2 Samsung Electronics 45,775 7.8 35,622 28.5 3 4 Lenovo 25,283 4.3 19,023 32.9 4 6 BBK Electronics 23,350 4.0 14,258 63.8 5 5 Dell Technologies 21,092 3.6 16,814 25.4 6 8 …

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At Electronica 2022 we caught up with Leo McHugh, the Vice President of Industrial Automation at Analog Devices, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. With resilience and sustainability top of mind for many organizations, he told us, the opportunity to significantly increase energy efficiency, productivity and reduce waste while also making manufacturing …

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