AWS Security Token Service (STS)  now enables you to request session tokens from the global STS endpoint that work in all AWS Regions. Using your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users or roles, you can configure the global STS endpoint to vend session tokens that are compatible with all AWS Regions.  

This Quick Start builds a serverless CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) environment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, to provide an enterprise-ready, dynamic deployment pipeline. 

Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a low-latency network adapter for Amazon EC2 Instances, is now Generally Available for production use.  EFA was first announced as a preview in November 2018.  

EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run High Performance Computing (HPC) applications requiring high levels of inter-instance communications, like computational fluid dynamics, weather modeling, and reservoir simulation, at scale on AWS. It uses a custom-built operating system bypass technique to enhance the performance of inter-instance communications, which is critical to scaling HPC applications. With EFA, HPC applications using popular HPC technologies like Message Passing Interface (MPI) can scale to thousands of CPU cores. EFA supports industry-standard libfabric APIs, so applications that use a supported MPI library can be migrated to AWS with little or no modification. EFA is available as an optional EC2 networking feature that you can enable on C5n.18xl and P3dn.24xl instances at no additional cost. EFA is currently available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), and AWS GovCloud (US). Support for additional instances and regions will be added in the coming months.

Learn more about using EFA for your HPC workloads here.
 

You can now define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to specify fine-grained permissions for specific brokers based on resource names and tags, improving the security of broker management. 

Elon Musk is saying he will have fully autonomous cars for sale next year. The industry is sceptical. ‘I could be wrong, but it appears to be the case that Tesla is vastly ahead of everyone,’ Musk is quoted as saying. Tesla seems to have avoided the data gathering process on driverless car performance put …

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e-peas’ AEM10941 devices for photovoltaic energy harvesting are being incorporated into tracking equipment employed in Australian cattle ranches. e-peas engineers worked in conjunction with the team at Dutch systems integrator SODAQ on the development and implementation of energy efficient livestock monitoring hardware for Brisbane-based client mOOvement. Through use of mOOvement’s smart tracker, valuable data on cattle …

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Imec’s Genome Analytics Platform (GAP) platform can perform a full genome analysis of 48 samples in only 48 hours and at an acceptable cost. The platform paves the way to genome sequencing as a daily practice in hospitals, for diagnosing and treating genetic diseases, including cancer and rare diseases, and for better treating newborns with …

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They say they have a new level of security for smart building and IIoT deployments

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The memory sector has been a positive for the semiconductor market for  the past two years but will likely have a very negative impact on total IC market growth in 2019, says IC Insights. The DRAM and NAND flash markets continue to closely follow the original IC industry cycle model whereby the market cycles are …

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Rohm is to acquire part of the diode and transistor business of Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions, with ROHM handling sales of these products to Panasonic’s current customers after October, if things go to schedule. The deal covers bipolar transistors, built-in resistor transistors, JFETS, Schottky diodes, transient voltage supressors, Zeners, switching diodes and fast recovery diodes. To …

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