We are excited to announce the release of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Released February 2018) exam. This updated version of our AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam includes new services and architectural best practices, including the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework. The exam validates knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies. We recommend candidates have at least one year of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable and distributed systems on AWS.  

Amazon Inspector now enables you to run security assessments for Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) and Runtime Behavior Analysis against your Amazon EC2 instances running Windows Server 2016. To run security assessments, simply install the Amazon Inspector Agent on the desired EC2 instance, configure your assessment in the Inspector console, and run your assessment. 

AWS OpsWorks Stacks event sources are now available in Amazon CloudWatch Events, which you can use to trigger events or notifications. 

AWS Trusted Advisor now helps all customers better secure their data by providing the S3 Bucket Permissions check for free!

Starting today, Inter-Region Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peering is available in AWS EU (London), EU (Ireland), EU (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo) Regions in addition to AWS US East (Northern Virgina), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon) Regions.

Today, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is introducing support for using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service-linked roles , a new type of role that allows you to easily delegate permissions to AWS services. 

Samsung Says it has begun mass producing the industry’s largest capacity Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD) – the PM1643 – for use in next-generation enterprise storage systems. Leveraging Samsung’s 64-layer, 3-bit 512-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND chips, the 30.72 terabyte (TB) drive delivers twice the capacity and performance of the previous 15.36TB high-capacity lineup …

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LED lighting is having a major impact on the way plants are grown commercially in greenhouses. As a result the horticultural lighting market reached almost $3.8bn in 2017, according to market data from Yole Développement. But changes to the horticultural LED lighting market indicate that greenhouse applications may only be the tip of the iceberg. …

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Microchip’s MCP6411 operational amplifier can operate with a single supply voltage as low as 1.7V, while drawing 55μA quiescent current (max). Called MCP6411, input offset is ±1.0mV max, and both input and output operate rail-to-rail. Compensation means it is unity gain stable, and it has a gain bandwidth product of 1 MHz (typ). “The MCP6411 …

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Qualcomm has increased it offer for NXP to $127.50 per share representing a purchase price of $44 billion. Qualcomm’s previous bid was $110 per share worth $39 billion. Before the new offer NXP stock was trading at $118.50. Qualcomm has entered into binding agreements with nine NXP stockholders who collectively own more than 28% of …

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