Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) customers can now inject task-level container failures using AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) experiments. With this new AWS FIS fault action you can stop running tasks in your container-based applications, whether they are deployed on AWS Fargate or Amazon EC2 infrastructure, so that you can uncover the hidden bugs, monitoring blind spots, and performance bottlenecks that are difficult to find in distributed systems. AWS FIS experiments can help you measure, validate, and improve the resilience of your applications in use cases such as chaos engineering, gameday testing, and continuous delivery.

You can now record Amazon Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) experiment activities by sending logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3. AWS FIS experiment logs contain detailed information about experiments, actions, and targets, including start and end times, action names, and target resource ARNs. You can use these logs to identify the activities performed by AWS FIS experiments and correlate them with your systems’ responses and monitoring and observability tools, so that you can implement improvements. In addition, you can use experiment timeline charts in the AWS Management Console  to monitor a running or completed experiment.

Amazon Detective has improved search capabilities by adding support for wildcard characters and classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) notation on IP addresses. Amazon Detective helps customers conduct security investigations by distilling and organizing data from sources such as, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, and Amazon GuardDuty, into a graph model that summarizes resource behaviors and interactions observed across a customer’s AWS environment.

Today AWS launches the 2022 season of the award-winning AWS DeepRacer League Virtual Circuit. Developers of all-skill levels advance their machine learning (ML) skills and compete in the world’s first global autonomous racing league.

The BBC, whose plans for  an experimental colour television service were turned down by the Postmaster-General last January,are reopening the matter with him. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 26th 1961. The story continues: ”I will consider what they say,” the PMG, Mr.Reginald Bevins, told the Commons last …

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‘Zeptogram’ caught the eye at ISSCC 2022 conference last week, as researchers from French lab CEA-Leti produced a mass sensor with 170zg resolution for weighing molecules. Not only did they make one such sensitive weighing scale, but 1,024 of them in an array which can be scanned at high speed. The weighing part had been …

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Nasa has opened the Second Phase of its $5 million Lunar Power Prize Competition, which is dubbed Watts On The Moon. Basically, it is seeking innovative technologies for energy distribution, management, and/or storage that can be developed for space flight and future operations on the Moon’s surface. Under its Artemis programme, NASA is committed to …

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Leonardo Electronics Engineer Anna Hart has won the WorldSkills UK’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion ‘Rising Star’ award. The awards took place last week, virtually, in a celebration that recognised the achievements of individuals and organisations championing diversity and inclusion right across industry. Enter for EW BrightSparks 2022 at www.electronicsweekly.com/brightsparks Anna (Pictured left) – who was …

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  Toshiba has started shipping  a low capacitance TVS diode. The product will be useful  in protecting electronic components such as semiconductors from static electricity and noise while suppressing signal quality deterioration within high-frequency antennas used for electronic equipment. The DF2B6M4BSL TVS diode features a total capacitance of just 0.12pF (0.15pF max.), which is the lowest …

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The industry is on pace to have more than 200 300mm fab lines in operation by 2026, forecasts Knometa’s Global Wafer Capacity 2022 At end of 2021, there were 153 semiconductor fabs processing 300mm wafers for the fabrication of ICs, including CMOS image sensors, and non-IC products such as power discretes. The 300mm wafer fab …

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