Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports IPv6, enabling customers to scale containerized applications on Kubernetes far beyond limits of private IPv4 address space, while achieving high network bandwidth with minimal complexity.

Today AWS is announcing the general availability of AWS Serverless Application Model CLI (AWS SAM CLI) support for local testing of AWS Cloud Development Kit applications. AWS SAM and AWS CDK are both open-source frameworks for building applications using infrastructure as code (IaC). AWS SAM is made up of the SAM template, which is a way to describe infrastructure in an application using JSON or YAML, and SAM CLI, which is a tool to build, package, test and deploy AWS SAM applications. AWS CDK is a development framework to define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages such as Python or Node.js.

Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to easily run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads using integrated development environments (IDE) such as EMR Studio .

Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports enabling fine-grained access control on existing domains. Fine-grained access control adds several capabilities to help you have better access control over the data stored in your domain.

AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 14 runtime now support code packaged as ECMAScript modules, allowing Lambda customers to consume a wider range of JavaScript packages in their Lambda functions. In addition, Lambda customers can now take advantage of ‘top-level await’, a Node.js 14 language feature. When used with Provisioned Concurrency , this improves cold-start performance for functions with asynchronous initialization tasks. For more information, see the blog post Using Node.JS ES Modules and Top-Level Await in AWS Lambda .

You can now access your instance’s tags from the EC2 Instance Metadata Service. Tags enable you to categorize your AWS resources in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. This is useful when you have many resources of the same type—you can quickly identify a specific resource based on the tags that you’ve assigned to it. Previously, you could access your instance tags from the console or by using the describe-tags API.

Starting today, customers can use Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations to reserve capacity for cluster placement groups. With cluster placement groups, customers can launch EC2 instances into logical groups within a segment of the network with high bisection bandwidth, thus getting low latency and high throughput between instances inside the cluster. Cluster placement groups are beneficial for customers with workloads that require tightly coupled node-to-node communication, such as high-performance computing (HPC) workloads or in-memory databases like SAP HANA. With the addition of On-Demand Capacity Reservations for cluster placement groups, customers can get the assurance of reserved capacity as they scale compute resources within their cluster.

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The James Webb Space Telescope team has reported fully deploying the spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield. NASA describes this as a key milestone in preparing it for science operations. Specifically, at 11:59 a.m. EST Tuesday, the sunshield was fully tensioned and secured into position, which marked the completion of its deployment. The unfolding and tensioning of the …

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NXP put its 16nm imaging radar processor, the NXP S32R45, into mass production, with initial customer ramp-up starting in the first half 2022. Additionally, the new NXP S32R41 has been introduced to extend 4D imaging radar’s benefits to a much larger number of vehicles. Together these processors serve the L2+ through L5 autonomy sectors, enabling 4D …

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