Würth Elektronik Circuit Board Technology has finalised plans to close its Schopfheim PCB production site in Switzerland, first announced in October. “The management and works council have now reached an …

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Batman? And James Bond? I was flummoxed when Andy Sellars told me he was indirectly involved in both, writes Ash Madni, who shares a personal interview with the well-known industry …

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Seco will unveil Intel Processor N-series computer-on-modules at Embedded World in March. Also called Twin Lake, the processors have up to eight ‘Efficiency’ cores and aimed at applications dissipating 6 …

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Today, we are excited to announce a new onboarding experience that makes it easy to set up and manage Amazon Q Developer Pro tier subscriptions. The workflow on Amazon Q console has been redesigned to provide a friendlier 2-step setup for users or teams that are looking to try out Amazon Q Developer in their Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

AWS account administrators can create subscriptions using the Amazon Q console for their standalone or AWS Organizations member accounts using a guided setup to create local users and configure Amazon Q Developer managed applications. Once the setup is complete, subscribed users will receive details on setting up credentials to start using Amazon Q Developer. After installation of the Amazon Q Developer plugin in their preferred IDE, users can leverage context-aware code recommendations and enhanced development capabilities to accelerate their software development. Administrators in the Organizations management accounts will continue to maintain their existing IAM Identity Center capabilities to manage workforce access to Amazon Q Developer.

To learn more about the new getting started experience, visit Amazon Q Developer User Guide . To get started with Amazon Q Developer, visit the AWS Console .
 

Amazon Personalize introduces dual stack support for the Personalize API endpoints, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. Dual stack support is also available when you privately access the Personalize API endpoint from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink.

The urgency to transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is driven by the continued growth of internet, which is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on Personalize endpoints, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems and applications, without needing to switch all over at once. This enables you to help meet IPv6 compliance requirements and removes the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6.

Support for IPv6 on Amazon Personalize in all supported regions . To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6, see the whitepaper on IPv6 in AWS.
 

Amazon MSK has added support for Express brokers in all AWS Regions where Amazon MSK offers Graviton3 based M7g instances. You can now benefit from Amazon MSK Express brokers in ten additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (London), Canada (Central), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (Bahrain).

Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come pre-configured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so they can continue using existing client applications without any changes.

You can now create an MSK cluster with Express brokers in these AWS Regions from the Amazon MSK console . To learn more, check out this blog .
 

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Verified Access’ support for secure access to resources that connect over protocols such as TCP, SSH, and RDP. With this launch, you can use Verified Access to provide secure VPN-less access to all your corporate applications and resources using AWS zero trust principles . This feature eliminates the need to manage separate access, and connectivity solutions for non-HTTP(S) resources on AWS and simplifies security operations.

Verified Access allows admins to set access policies based on user identity and device posture. It evaluates access for new connections and continuously monitors active connections, terminating connections when security requirements specified in the access policies aren’t met. Now you can extend your existing Verified Access policies to enable secure access to non-HTTP(S) applications and resources such as databases, and SAP and git-repositories running on EC2 instances. For example, you can centrally define access policies granting prod database access only to authenticated database administrators using compliant, managed devices. This simplifies your security operations by allowing you to centrally create, group, and manage access policies for all applications and resources with similar security requirements from a single interface.

This feature is generally available in 18 AWS regions: US East (Ohio), US East (Northern Virginia), US West (N California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Milan), Europe (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), and Israel (Tel Aviv).

To learn more, visit the product page , pricing page , and documentation .
 

AWS AppSync Events allows developers to create serverless WebSocket APIs that can broadcast real-time data to millions of subscribers without managing infrastructure or connection state. Developers simply create their API, and publish events without having the worry about scale and handling fan-out. Today, AWS AppSync announces the release of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) L2 constructs for AWS AppSync Events, enabling developers to programmatically create and manage Event APIs and channel namespaces using infrastructure as code. These new constructs simplify the process of creating Event APIs and managing access controls, reducing the complexity of integrating real-time capabilities into applications.

The new L2 constructs provide a higher-level abstraction that makes it easier for developers to define AppSync Event APIs and their associated channel namespaces using familiar programming languages. Developers can now easily grant access to specific channel namespaces to AWS resources such as AWS Lambda functions, streamlining the integration between services. This eliminates the need to manually configure complex IAM permissions and reduces the potential for security misconfigurations.

These CDK L2 constructs are available in all AWS Regions where AWS AppSync is available. To get started with the new AWS AppSync Events CDK L2 constructs, visit the AWS CDK API Reference documentation .
 

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 provides a fully-managed offering to scan new object uploads to S3 bucket for malware. Starting February 1, 2025, we are lowering the price for the data scanned dimension by 85%. Over the past few months we have made improvements to our scanning infrastructure and data processing efficiencies, enabling us to reduce the price as part of our commitment to pass savings back to customers.

GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 is priced based on two dimensions: the number of objects evaluated and the amount of data scanned. We are lowering the price for the data scanned dimension, for example in US East (N. Virginia) from $0.60 to $0.09 per GB. The price for objects evaluated remains unchanged. With this price reduction, you will be more capable of building secure and cost-effective data pipelines on Amazon S3 for applications with untrusted uploads across the enterprise.

The price reduction applies automatically to all AWS Regions where GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 is available, requiring no action from customers. For additional information visit Amazon GuardDuty pricing page. To receive programmatic updates on new GuardDuty features and threat detections, subscribe to the Amazon GuardDuty AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) topic .
 

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) , a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region.

With Amazon Keyspaces, you can run your Cassandra workloads on AWS using the same Cassandra application code and developer tools that you use today. The service is completely serverless, eliminating the need to provision, patch, or manage servers, or handle software installation and maintenance. You pay only for the resources you use, and tables automatically scale up and down based on application traffic. Amazon Keyspaces supports applications serving thousands of requests per second with virtually unlimited throughput and storage. The service includes built-in security features with encryption by default and continuous data backup capabilities through point-in-time recovery.

For pricing information in the Africa (Cape Town) Region, visit Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) pricing . To see the complete list of AWS Regions where Amazon Keyspaces is available, check AWS Regional Services .

To begin using Amazon Keyspaces in the Africa (Cape Town) Region, refer to Getting Started with Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) in the Amazon Keyspaces Developer Guide.