Today, AWS announced that customers can use aliases to refer to Amazon Machine Images (AMI) purchased from AWS Marketplace. AMI aliases are unique identifiers that be used instead of an AMI ID in deployment scripts. Starting today, aliases are available for all single AMI products on AWS Marketplace. This simplifies launching new AMIs as customers don’t have to change AMI IDs for each region every time there is a version update. Customers can rather use a single alias that will auto-resolve to current AWS region. Additionally, customers can always refer to the latest version by using the ‘latest’ alias for a given AMI product. This will automate deployment pipelines and reduce the manual steps required to upgrade to a new version of AMI purchased from AWS Marketplace.

Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Chicago, Kansas City, and Minneapolis. Customers can now use these new Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or for on-premises installations in these three metro areas.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service has a new name: Amazon OpenSearch Service. This change, which was previously announced here , coincides with the addition of support for OpenSearch 1.0. You can now run and scale both OpenSearch and Elasticsearch (until version 7.10) clusters on Amazon OpenSearch Service and get all of the same benefits you have enjoyed so far from Amazon Elasticsearch Service.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports data streams to help simplify management of time-series data such as logs, metrics, and traces. Data streams abstract the underlying indexes required for your time-series data, the rollover process, and the optimizations required to efficiently manage and query time-based data, reducing operational overhead. You can move your older rolled-over indexes that are part of a data stream to UltraWarm and beyond that to cold storage, helping you retain data for longer, cost-effectively.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks, a new feature that enables OpenSearch users to interactively and collaboratively develop rich reports backed by live data and queries. A notebook is a document made up of cells or paragraphs that can combine markdown, SQL and Piped Processing Language (PPL) queries, and visualizations with support for multi-timelines so that users can easily tell a story. Notebooks can be developed, shared as an OpenSearch Dashboards link, PDF or PNG, and refreshed directly from OpenSearch Dashboards to foster data driven exploration and collaboration among OpenSearch users and their stakeholders. Common use cases for notebooks includes creating postmortem reports, designing run books, building live infrastructure reports, or even documentation.

Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports index transforms that enables customers to extract significant information from large data sets and store summarized views in new indices. Customers can derive new insights, further analyze, and visualize trends from the new summary index.

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Sheffield is the site of a new design centre for Ensilica, the custom ASIC design and supply services specialist, and the company is also beginning a recruitment drive. The centre is being established around a team of six very experienced engineers, says Ensilica. It adds to the company’s existing headquarters and design facility near Oxford, …

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ROHM and Geely Automobile Group have entered into a strategic partnership to develop automotive technologies. Pictured are An Conghui, Chairman of Geely (right)  and Isao Matsumoto President and CEO of Rohm. Both companies have been collaborating on a variety of automotive applications since 2018, when they first agreed to carry out technical exchange. This partnership …

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July semiconductor sales of $45.4 billion were 29% up y-o-y on July 2020’s $35.2 billion, reports the SIA, and 2.1% up on June’s $44.5 billion. “Global semiconductor sales remained strong in July, with robust demand across all major regional markets and semiconductor product categories,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “chip production and shipments have reached …

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