AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as Microsoft AD, is now available in the US East (Ohio) Region. This makes it possible for you to use an AWS fully managed Active Directory in the cloud. Among the use cases supported by Microsoft AD, you can:

The Amazon CloudWatch Events service is now available in the China (Beijing) region.

We are excited to announce the release of Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.6, which includes 337 new improvements, fixes and features to Amazon’s free, AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch.

You can now choose AWS CloudFormation as a deployment action in your release workflows built using AWS CodePipeline. This allows you to build, test, and deploy AWS infrastructure changes modeled as CloudFormation templates . CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

You can now apply continuous delivery practices to your AWS CloudFormation stacks using AWS CodePipeline. AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define.  

Samsung, reeling from the effects of the Note 7 disaster, is to invest $1 billion by the end of H1 2017 in its Austin, Texas fab bringing the total amount invested in the fab since it was first built in 1997 to over $16 billion. Samsung announced a 30% decline in Q3 operating profit because …

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We are very pleased to announce another high-profile judge joining us for the EW BrightSparks programme, which is celebrating the achievements of young engineers in electronics. Paul Hide, COO for techUK, joins Dr Lucy Rogers (science writer and presenter), Lindsley Ruth (CEO of RS Components) and Richard Wilson (editor of Electronics Weekly) on the selection …

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Switch and sensors firm Comus Europe is offering 3D printed prototyping services to work alongside design services from its UK office in Essex. The printer is a Stratasys uPrint SE 3D which is a high-end filament printer, building objects in natural ABS up to 203 x 203 x 152mm, in layers down to 0.254mm. “uPrint SE …

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In order to better serve the markets for its broadening range of products, FTDI Chip has established a separate company called Bridgetek. Presenting the embedded engineering sector with a well-defined and targeted operation, Bridgetek will drive the further commercialisation of some of the technologies introduced by FTDI Chip in recent years. Its resources will be …

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If you met someone who said they believed in the Singularity and the trillion connected device IoT you’d think – nutter. This is what ARM’s new owner thinks. Of course Masayoshi Son has described himself as crazy, so there’s no harm in agreeing with him. Son sees a three trillion device IoT delivering: “A world …

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