Customers can now purchase the AWS Panorama Appliance from Amazon.com , Amazon.ca , Amazon.co.uk , Amazon.fr , Amazon.de , Amazon.it , and Amazon.es .

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now enables you to increase your SSD storage capacity with the click of a button, making it even quicker and easier to meet your evolving storage needs over time. 

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web applications. Developers can now replace webcam video background with an image to reduce visual distractions and help increase visual privacy.

Amazon Lightsail now provides you with the ability to optimize the delivery of your containerized applications to your global audience by using Lightsail CDN with your Lightsail Container Services. Lightsail containers can be configured as the origin of a Lightsail CDN distribution with just a few clicks from the Lightsail console.

Amazon S3 File Gateway now supports schedule-based network bandwidth throttling, enabling you to optimize network use between your data center and Amazon S3 storage for data synchronization. Customers that share their internet or DirectConnect access with other on premises applications and users, can now schedule when and how much bandwidth S3 File Gateway uses.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 R6i instances are available in additional AWS Regions Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo). Designed for memory-intensive workloads, R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. R6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 15% better compute price performance over R5 instances, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). These instances are SAP-Certified and are ideal for workloads such as SQL and noSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches like Memcached and Redis, in-memory databases like SAP HANA, and real time big data analytics like Hadoop and Spark clusters.

Amazon EFS Replication provides you with an easy way to keep an up-to-date copy of your file system in a second AWS Region or within the same Region. Amazon EFS Replication enables you to replicate file data in a few clicks and without requiring you to manually provision additional infrastructure or a custom process to monitor and synchronize data changes. Amazon EFS Replication is designed to meet a recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) of minutes, enabling you to meet your business continuity and compliance requirements.

Slovakian company Klein Vision has made a flying car – which has just got a certificate of air worthiness. The most amazing bit about it, is how the folks there got the wings to fold into the car body – a real-life transformer. Do watch the video. And, don’t they make their vehicles look great? …

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To my mind, Nvidia’s latest submission in support of its takeover  bid for Arm is a red herring. The argument that it will create competition in the server market by getting Arm-based chips into datacentres is flimsy. It is received wisdom in the chip industry that it’s nigh-on impossible to displace an existing dominant architecture. …

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This was the headline, 60 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 19th 1961. The story starts: WHILE at the Footscray works of Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd., recently I saw some of the application work which is now going on with the tunnel diode. In the hands of the engineers …

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