Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling to automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your cluster horizontally by adding or removing shards or replica nodes. ElastiCache for Redis uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to manage scaling and Amazon CloudWatch metrics to determine when it is time to scale up or down. 

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Forecast Weather Index is now also available in the Asia-Pacific region. Weather Index can increase your forecasting accuracy, by automatically including the latest local weather information in your demand forecasts with one click and at no extra cost. Weather conditions influence consumer demand patterns, product merchandizing decisions, staffing requirements and energy consumption needs – however – acquiring, cleaning, and effectively using live weather information for demand forecasting is challenging and requires ongoing maintenance. With this launch, customers who have been using Weather Index in the US, Canada, South America and Europe, can now, with one click to your demand forecast, also include 14-day weather forecasts for Asia-Pacific.

In April 2021, IAM Access Analyzer added policy generation to help you create fine-grained policies based on AWS CloudTrail activity stored within your account. Now, we are extending policy generation to enable you to generate policies based on access activity stored in a designated account. For example, you can use AWS Organizations to define a uniform event logging strategy for your organization and store all CloudTrail logs in your management account to streamline governance activities. IAM Access Analyzer helps you by reviewing access activity stored in your designated account and generates a fine-grained IAM policy in your member accounts. This helps you to easily create policies with just the required permissions for your workloads.

We are introducing Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference , a new inference option in Amazon SageMaker that queues incoming requests and processes them asynchronously. This option is ideal for inferences with large payload sizes (up to 1GB) and/or long processing times (up to 15 minutes) that need to be processed as requests arrive. Asynchronous inference enables you to save on costs by autoscaling the instance count to zero when there are no requests to process, so you only pay when your endpoint is processing requests.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports the oracle_fdw extension, which allows your PostgreSQL database to connect to and retrieve data stored in Oracle databases.  

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL versions 9.6.22, 10.17, 11.12, and 12.7. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 9.6 will reach end of life on January 31, 2022. Minor version 9.6.22 is limited to upgrades for clusters already running Aurora PostgreSQL 9.6.

Seeking something-or-other, I came across a high-side current sense circuit that I had never noticed before. Here it is (right), in an app note for the OnSemi NCP3020A buck dc-dc converter controller, driving a bunch of leds. It is used to turn the normally constant-output-voltage chip into a constant current chip. Q2 to Q5 convert the …

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Although H1 VC spend was dominated by Asia, according to analyst CB Insights, with $20 billion in deals being done, European VC spend has been growing faster – quadrupling in H1 y-o-y. Funding to the UK and Germany makes up around half of all European CV, but France, where $1.6 billion were given out in the first …

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There’s Akida AI processors, the UK’s hydrogen strategy, photonic qubits based on SiN waveguides, Cree and ST agreeing a wafer supply deal and Intel’s CEO banging the drum for governments to invest in chips…

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Microchip has boosted the performance of its ‘chip-scale atomic clocks’, offering wider operating temperature, faster warm-up and improved extreme environment frequency stability in its SA65 model. The whole frequency source fits inside 41 x 36 x 12mm (plus pins) which is 17cm3. It weighs 35g. SA65 operates over -40 to 80°C (-55 to 105°C storage) and warms …

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