Starting today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enables you to manage administrative permissions in your managed directory more easily. You can now grant administrative permissions to users from your existing Microsoft Active Directory (AD) by adding these users to the new AWS delegated AD security groups in AWS Managed Microsoft AD.

You can now use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to directly query scalar JSON and Ion data types stored in external tables in Amazon S3 – without loading or transforming the data.  

AWS Service Catalog, used by enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers to organize, govern, provision, and operate cloud resources on AWS, now allows customers to customize the look and feel of the console. Customers can brand their AWS Service Catalog console to match their internal applications, making the user experience more seamless when moving from internal applications such as single sign-on and navigation portals to AWS Service Catalog.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports Docker container health checks. This gives you more control over monitoring the health of your tasks and improves the ability of the ECS service scheduler to ensure your services are healthy. 

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Community Edition minor versions 5.5.59, 5.6.39 and 5.7.21 in all AWS Regions. These new versions include a number of fixes and functionality improvements for the MySQL database engine.

The DRAM industry will grow 30%+ this year to $96 billion, says DRAMeXchange. H1 prices are expected to rise 5-10%  driven by datacentre demand. Thev average unit spot price for DDR4 chips betweenJanuary and February rose 1.1% to $5, with the average price hike estimated at 3-5% for Q1. In the traditionally slow Q1 for handset sales, …

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Cobham Wireless has delivered its massive MIMO  test solution to China Mobile Research Institute, to enable the operator to benefit from the capacity and performance gains of digital Massive MIMO technology. The concept of digital Massive MIMO has been introduced in 4.5G technology, vastly improving network capacity and energy efficiency by increasing the number of …

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UK test equipment maker Pico Technology revealed a ground-up redesign of its data logging software at Embedded World. Designed to work with all of the firm’s PC-based data acquisition hardware, the PicoLog 6 is functionally-identical running on Windows, Linux or MacOS. Record limits are up from the 1Mpoints of PicoLog 5, and are now only …

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Offering a high-current connector for tight spaces on rail vehicles, Harting has added a low profile high-current connector for up to four 250A contacts to its Han HPR connector series. Design for high current motor connections in rail vehicles the connector was originally developed for a tram project in Vienna. In this project the design brief required …

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Farnell element14 is to sell Amphenol SV Microwave connectors in Europe. This agreement, which is part of a global deal, will extend the distributor’s RF connector, adapter and cable assembly product ranges to include higher frequency microwave bands up to 100GHz. Application areas are likely to include 5G as well as military/aerospace. Doug Snader, international …

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