Digi-Key Electronics has expanded its distribution partnership with ARM to include all of Asia. In addition to expanding the reach of the partnership, ARM’s latest Keil MDK Version 5.20 software development kit for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers is also available through Digi-Key. Keil MDK includes the µVision IDE, C/C++ compiler, debugger, Software Component management, and the CMSIS …

Digi-Key circles the world with ARM’s processor tools

Autonomous vehicles are to be insured under normal policies in the UK. This was one of the government proposals announced in the Queen’s Speech. According to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), this is an important step forward which will ultimately improve road safety and reduce congestion. But the IET warned the Government that …

Autonomous vehicles get insurance boost in the UK

mindSHIFT Technologies says the intelligence in the Cisco/Cree PoE system will cut electricity consumption far more than ordinary LEDs would.

Starting today, you can use tags to manage and track your Amazon WorkSpaces. Tags let you categorize your Amazon WorkSpaces so you can easily identify their purpose and track costs accordingly. For example, you could use tags to identify all the Amazon WorkSpaces for a particular department, project, application, vendor, or use case. Once you have tagged your Amazon WorkSpaces, you can use the AWS Tag Editor console (starting in June 2016) to filter and search by specific tags, and obtain usage and cost details for particular tags by signing up to get your AWS account bill with tag key values included.

We are excited to announce Amazon EC2 X1 instances. X1 instances extend the elasticity, simplicity, and cost savings of the AWS cloud to enterprise-grade applications with large dataset requirements. X1 instances are ideal for running in-memory databases like SAP HANA, big data processing engines like Apache Spark or Presto, and high performance computing (HPC) applications. X1 instances are certified by SAP to run production environments of the next-generation Business Suite S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA (SoH), Business Warehouse on HANA (BW), and Data Mart Solutions on HANA on the AWS cloud. 

Amazon Kinesis Firehose, the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS, now supports configurable retry duration for ingesting data into Amazon Redshift. You can now configure your Firehose delivery streams to retry the Redshift COPY for any time period up to a maximum of 7200 seconds. If the Redshift COPY command fails for any reason, Amazon Kinesis Firehose re-tries the command for the duration of the retry period you specify.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch on AWS. You can now add up to 20 data nodes and 5 dedicated master nodes to your Amazon Elasticsearch domains. The previous limit was a total instance count of 10 including both data nodes and dedicated master nodes. This effectively increases the maximum amount of data you can store in an Amazon Elasticsearch domain from 12 TB to 24 TB with i2.2xl instances and from 4 TB to 8 TB for EBS-backed domains. For more information, see Creating and Configuring Amazon ES Domains and Amazon Elasticsearch Service Limits in the Amazon Elasticsearch Service Developer Guide.

Starting today, you can share your Amazon Aurora snapshots with another AWS account, or make your snapshots publicly available. You can privately share your database snapshots with up to 20 AWS accounts by selecting “Share Snapshots” on the RDS console and choosing the “Private” option. You can also make your snapshot available to all AWS users by selecting the “Public” option. Access to the publically or privately shared snapshots can be revoked by you at any time. Recipient of a shared snapshot can copy it to their account, or restore it directly to an Aurora cluster.

Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) can now automatically scale container-based applications by dynamically growing and shrinking the number of tasks run by an Amazon ECS service.

Water agencies join groups around the nation to address America’s deferred maintenance crisis, highlight areas of innovation.