AWS CodeBuild is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. Using CodeBuild, you are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use.

You can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes v1.21 , which is currently the latest available stable version of upstream Kubernetes. Highlights of the Kubernetes version 1.21 release include Cronjobs and Immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps reaching stable status, and Graceful Node Shutdown graduating to beta. You can find more details about Kubernetes 1.21 release in EKS blog post and in Kubernetes project release notes .

Today we are announcing the availability of AWS provided License included Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with Microsoft SQL Server Amazon Machine Images (AMI). Customers can now combine the scale, performance, and elasticity of Amazon EC2 with consistency, reliability, and high performance of Microsoft SQL Server on RHEL to deploy mission critical transactional systems and data warehouses.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. The longer people hold power the more paranoid they become and this explains the apparently crazy actions of Xi Jinping in deliberately harming China’s leading tech companies. From Ant – the IPO that wasn’t – to Alibaba – the investigation and fine – to Didi – the …

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PLANS for the start next year of experimental tests of satellite communications in which the GPO will take part were announced in a White Paper published last week by Mr. J. R. Bevins,Postmaster- General. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 5th 1961. The story continues: The satellites are …

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Lockheed Martin has officially opened its Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center, an advanced manufacturing facility to expand Orion spacecraft production. The STAR Center, says the company, will expand manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity for NASA’s Orion spacecraft programme and support future space exploration. The 55,000 square-foot space – in Titusville, Florida – will …

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The Taiwan government and semiconductor industry are to invest $300 million to create graduate courses for the chip industry. The move comes as the Taiwan industry finds talent getting increasingly short, made worse by a brain drain to the US and China. China has said it needs 230,000 more semiconductor engineers by 2022 and a …

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Morris Chang (pictured) has spoken out against the current moves by countries to try and establish advanced domestic chip manufacturing capabilities. “Recently, we note with concern the tendency to want self-sufficiency or ‘on-shoring’ of semiconductor chips,” Chang told the APEC trade group, “it would be highly impractical to try to turn back the clock. If …

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