Today, we made it easier for you to configure trust relationships between your AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition)—also known as Microsoft AD—and your on-premises Microsoft Active Directory domains. Establishing trust relationships requires conditional forwarders , which resolve Domain Name System (DNS) queries between the domain names of the trusting directories. You now can more easily configure conditional forwarders using the Directory Service console, which eliminates the need to install DNS Manager on a Microsoft Windows Server instance in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). 

You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using Node.js 4.3.2 in addition to Node.js 0.10.4. In addition to the leveraging new features in Node.js 4.3 such as ES6 support , Lambda functions written in Node.js 4.3 can now use standard Node.js callback conventions to specify error or return values for the function execution. Previously, returning values from a Lambda function required the use of methods specific to the Lambda programming model. See our documentation to learn more about implementing callbacks within Lambda functions.

We continuously enhance our technical courses to stay current with the pace of AWS platform updates and incorporate student feedback. We have made substantial updates to our two foundational training courses to better provide students with actionable knowledge to get started creating solutions with AWS and a path to advanced learning.

AWS IoT is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) region.

You can now select from two additional deployment policies, immutable and rolling with additional batch, when deploying application code using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This is in addition to the two existing deployment policies that Elastic Beanstalk currently supports (i.e. rolling, all at once). You can now select one of these four deployment policies when updating your applications. Elastic Beanstalk also lets you perform DNS-based blue/green updates in addition to the four deployment policies.

Chip industry revenues were 1.9% down on 2014 at $334 billion last year, according to Gartner, in contrast to IHS’ estimate of $347 billion. Big fallers in y-o-y semiconductor revenues were Qualcomm at 16.7%, Micron at 15.1% and Toshiba at 15.1%. “2015 saw mixed performance with optoelectronics, non-optical sensors, analog and ASIC all reporting revenue growth …

Semiconductor revenues fall to $334bn

Avnet Memec – Silica, will be holding a one-day workshop focusing on Renesas Synergy on May 4, 2016, at the offices of Avnet Memec – Silica in Newbury. The session will address the challenge of software complexity and will dive into the detail of the Renesas Synergy concept. This will be followed by a series …

Avnet Memec – Silica to hold Renesas Synergy workshop on May 4th in Newbury

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says the company has made the biggest chip ever made with 15 billion transistors and is putting it into the densest computer ever made. Nvidia calls the chip the Tesla P100 and has put it in a 170-teraflop DGX-1 supercomputer. “This is a beast of a machine, the densest computer ever …

Nvidia’s big beast

Industrial processes depend on reliable network cabling. This is typically run through cable chains and can take a lot of abuse which may eventually lead to breakages. Regular testing to make sure they are functioning correctly is therefore essential. Handheld diagnostic tools, such as the PROFIBUS Tester 5 from Softing Industrial Automation, can be used …

Hitex brings diagnostic tool to Profibus networks

Production materials supplier Electrolube has set-up a technical support team based at its headquarters in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. The team is headed by Jade Bridges, Electrolube’s European Technical Support Specialist, who was formerly the company’s R&D manager. They will provide industry-specific and circuit protection chemistry expertise and will be the primary technical support to the supplier’s …

Electrolube adds materials tech support in UK