The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now available in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) add-ons in preview, enabling you to use the Amazon EKS console, CLI, and API to install and manage the add-on. This release is in addition to existing support for the Amazon VPC CNI networking plugin , CoreDNS and kube-proxy, and makes it easier to define consistent Kubernetes clusters and keep them up to date using Amazon EKS.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Africa (Cape Town) regions.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports data compression for data stored within a file system’s capacity pool storage. Combined with FSx for ONTAP’s existing support for data deduplication and compaction, data compression enables you to reduce your storage costs for a wide spectrum of data sets — for example, you can reduce your costs for general-purpose file shares by 65%.

AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS Managed Rules, which are groups of rules based on threat intelligence data, to enable you to stay up to date on the latest security threats without writing and maintaining your own rules.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP has now reduced the minimum file system throughput capacity from 512 MB/s to 128 MB/s, decreasing the minimum cost of an FSx for ONTAP file system by over 50%.

Amazon Route 53 is adding domain specific API actions: DeleteDomain and ListPrices. Sorting and filtering functions are also being added to the API action, ListDomains. The DeleteDomain API action is a function previously only available in the AWS Console.

I don’t know about you but I’m finding apps are becoming more and more intrusive. Irritating apps tend  to emerge between you and a once-useful basic service – like a bus timetable or an airline. BA have just adopted one, Sensibly, at a time of restrictions, the app asks you to upload documentation about vaccinations, …

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Microchip has tied up with power component company Mersen to create a 150kVA silicon carbide three-phase evaluation design. “When power inverter designers can source a proven solution, they can avoid sourcing individual parts and reduce risk through reliability. Designers now have an all-in-one evaluation system,” said Microchip v-p of discretes Leon Gross. Called Power Stack, the …

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Marvell has announced a 50Gbps PAM4 DSP and TIA chipset for 5G fronthaul, which enables  integrated radio access networks (RAN) as well as Open (O-RAN) and virtualised (vRAN) architectures. The AtlasOne chipset supports carriers which want front haul solutions that scale beyond 25G. Carriers are upgrading radio capacity with wider bandwidths – up to 200 …

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TI claims to have the smallest 24-bit wideband ADC that delivers leading-signal-measurement precision at wider bandwidths than competing ADCs. The ADS127L11, the newest product in TI’s portfolio of precision wideband ADCs, achieves ultra-precise data acquisition in a 50% smaller package, optimising power consumption, resolution and measurement bandwidth. The device offers wideband and low-latency filter options …

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