You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces APIs from your virtual private cloud (Amazon VPC). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks. Starting today, you can manage your Refactor Spaces resources using AWS PrivateLink and meet your organization’s security and compliance requirements. To use AWS PrivateLink, create an interface VPC endpoint for Refactor Spaces in your VPC using the Amazon VPC console, SDK, or CLI. You can also access the VPC endpoint from on-premises environments or from other VPCs using AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, or VPC Peering.

AWS Lambda announces support for attribute-based access control (ABAC) for API actions that use Lambda function as the required resource. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags which can be attached to IAM resources, such as IAM users and roles, and to AWS resources, like Lambda functions, to simplify permission management.

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 R6a instances. Designed for memory-intensive workloads, R6a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which delivers almost all the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. R6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.6 GHz. These memory-optimized instances, which are SAP certified, deliver up to 35% better compute price performance compared to R5a instances for a wide variety of workloads and offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances.

AWS CodeBuild’s support for Arm using Graviton2 is now available in: South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Stockholm).

Changes to AWS CloudFormation-based stacks and resources are now available as event notifications in Amazon EventBridge. Customers can use these event notifications to build and scale loosely-coupled event-driven applications. With this feature, customers can trigger actions in real-time after they create, update, or delete either their CloudFormation stacks or resources in their CloudFormation stacks without having to write single-use custom code or develop new software.

AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ clusters with two readable standbys. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is designed to provide you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers, and readable standby instances. Now, all of the data protection capabilities in AWS Backup including automated lifecycle management, separate backup access policies, immutable backups with AWS Backup Vault Lock , and compliance monitoring with AWS Backup Audit Manager are available for Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters.

This is a serious project, one for seriously skilled Gadget Masters, but fortunately it is seriously well documented, too. Check out this unusual project for making your own Smart Lamp in a very different way (we’re talking custom scripting of hardware)…

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Thanks to NASA for this one – the eight most useful technologies for use on Earth which were develiped for Soace: Fission Surface Power NASA is developing fission surface power , a green technology with zero carbon emission. When used with advanced fuel cells, fission power can not only generate clean and abundant electricity on …

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Not-for-profit EngineeringUK is warning that lack of Government planning and resources in the STEM educational pipeline is putting de-carbonisation at risk. “It’s clear that we could be sleep-walking towards a net zero engineering skills shortage without knowing how big the skills and educational gaps are and where they are,” said EngineeringUK head of environmental sustainability …

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A common refrain in the quantum computing field is that if you want value from a quantum computer, it needs a large, fault tolerant quantum processor – nothing else can implement quantum algorithms that perform better than classical devices. Until then we’re stuck in the NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) era of  noisy devices that are inferior to classical counterparts. “Our …

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