You can now use the Resource Groups Tagging API to centrally manage tags and search resources for 10 additional AWS Services: AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeBuild, AWS DataSync, AWS Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon FSx, Amazon MQ, Amazon Neptune, Amazon Route53 Resolver, and AWS Step Functions.
Quick Start for Portworx PX-Enterprise on Kubernetes on AWS
This Quick Start automatically deploys Portworx PX-Enterprise on Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in 20-30 minutes.
AWS Systems Manager State Manager Enables Document Sharing Across Accounts
AWS Systems Manager, which uses State Manager to report on and enforce your desired state configuration, now allows the use of documents shared across accounts. With document sharing, you save time when creating and updating documents while ensuring more consistency across accounts.
The Need for Water Filter Systems for Home Drinking Water
Call 303.922.4383 Today, to Determine the Best Home Water Filter System.

The fact is that most municipal water is contaminated with organic chemicals, heavy metals, chlorine, parasites and many other toxic contaminants. After much research, the EPA concluded that US water supplies contain more than 2,300 chemicals that can be traced to one or more causes of cancer. This is why more and more people are installing water filter systems for home use.
The big travesty today is that now we find that most bottled water is not really any more pure than your typical tap water, it just costs a lot more. In addition, the pollution caused by all of the plastic water bottle refuse is huge. For both environmental and health reasons, people are moving away from bottled water towards home water filters . The question is:
What Type of Water Filters Systems for Home Use are Best?
The good news is that most quality home water filtration systems provide much higher quality water than bottled water and at a fraction of the cost. Even better is the convenience of making it right in your own home. PureWater Dynamics is a Colorado company that provides water dispensers for home use that utilizes the highest quality reverse osmosis home system for water filtration.
Unfortunately, here in the United States in our industrialized society, over 80K toxic chemicals are used every single day, and more than one thousand are being added each year through industrial research and development. The problem is that we are finding that eventually, most of the chemicals we use find their way into our drinking water.
As we all know, water isn’t continually created, it just recycles itself again and again through evaporation, condensation, rain and so on. Over time we are using more and more man-made chemicals which continuously increases the proportion of toxic chemicals in our water supply.
Why Is This a Problem?
Our municipal water treatment technology is designed to handle the problems of a more agrarian society where nearly cleaning the junk out of the water and killing the bacteria were of paramount importance. Most of today’s toxic chemicals weren’t getting into our water supply. There was a time when removing the visible particulates and using chlorine to kill most of the bacteria was good enough. Today, we know that water is not really that healthy unless we also remove these high levels of synthetic chemicals.
Back in the early part of the last century only one in fifty people in this country would get cancer; today that number is one in three. In our male population, its one out of two and one out of eight women get breast cancer, that’s an increase of three hundred percent within the past twenty years alone. It’s becoming clearer that more and more of these synthetic chemicals are being linked to these statistics.
Cancer is a Disease of Civilization
Many consider cancer a man-made disease caused in a large part by our modern lifestyles that include stress, unnatural diets, synthetic products, pollutants and a host of other effects of modern society. It’s been reported that pure uncontaminated water is one of the most important considerations in preventing degenerative diseases, like cancer.
We are constantly told to improve our health by drinking more water. Water is the body’s method of ridding itself of natural and unnatural toxins and by-products of being a living organism. When the water we use for this cleansing purpose contains contaminants, we are putting roadblocks in the way of this cleansing process and adding harmful by-products instead.
Home Reverse Osmosis Systems
Many have begun using home reverse osmosis water filtration systems. These RO water filtration units are small enough to fit under your kitchen sink where the only thing you see is an attractive spigot sitting right next to your regular kitchen faucet.
These in home reverse osmosis filters are the most economical, effective and convenient way to provide purified drinking water for your home. For your health, you can’t go wrong with a home RO water purification system.Call 303.922.4383 today, to determine the best equipment for your home.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Amazon S3 Integration For Data Ingress and Egress Capabilities
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database (RDS) for Oracle supports integration with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for data ingress and egress capabilities. This feature allows RDS Oracle customers to easily, efficiently and securely transfer data between their RDS Oracle DB Instances and Amazon S3.
Previously, data transfers from an RDS Oracle DB Instance required an additional DB Instance and a networking link between the two DB Instances. With Amazon S3 Integration, you can now use the RDS Oracle DB instance to transfer files to or from Amazon S3 using new RDS Oracle procedures.
With Amazon S3 Integration, you can perform data ingress with Oracle Data Pump to migrate workloads into your RDS Oracle DB Instance. After exporting your data from your source instance, you upload your Data Pump files to your Amazon S3 bucket. You can then copy the files from your S3 bucket to the RDS Oracle host and finally use the DBMS_DATAPUMP package to import your data into the target RDS Oracle DB Instance.
With Amazon S3 Integration, you can also perform data egress out of your RDS Oracle DB instance. First, back up the data locally on the RDS Oracle host. This local backup can either be an Oracle RMAN backup or Oracle Data Pump export of the database. Once these files are created locally, you can copy the files to the S3 bucket. Optionally, you can move these backups from Amazon S3 to Amazon S3 Glacier for long term storage that complements your automated backup strategy. By using this method, you can satisfy regulatory requirements for storing database backups in an off-site location and, at the same time, cost effectively support your long-term retention policies.
Amazon S3 Integration supports both Oracle Data Pump and Oracle RMAN for data egress. Amazon S3 Integration also allows Oracle Data Pump for data ingress. Data is encrypted at rest using Amazon S3 server-side encryption, which can use Amazon S3 provided keys or your own encryption keys provided via AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Data is encrypted in transit as well.
Amazon S3 Integration for RDS Oracle is free and is supported in all commercial regions where Amazon RDS for Oracle is available. To learn more, please visit the Integrating Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon S3 documentation page.
Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for Oracle Pricing
for regional availability.
Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility Supports T3 Instance Types
The MySQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora has added support for T3 instances, the next generation of burstable general-purpose instances.
Cypress CYW943907AEVAL1F and CYW954907AEVAL1F are Now Qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS
Two Cypress development boards, CYW943907AEVAL1F and CYW954907AEVAL1F, are now qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of Amazon FreeRTOS features and benefits using development kits available from Cypress.
AWS Storage Gateway hardware appliance is now available in Europe, and adds more storage and networking options
You can now order and use the AWS Storage Gateway hardware appliance in Europe, expand an appliance’s usable capacity to 12 TB, and choose to use a 10 Gigabit fiber optic network card instead of a copper network card. The expanded storage provides a larger local cache for low-latency access to data stored in AWS. The fiber optic network card provides an additional datacenter deployment option.
Introducing AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
You can now use AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS PrivateLink allows you to privately access services hosted on AWS in a highly available and scalable manner, without using public IPs and without requiring the traffic to traverse the internet.
Amazon WorkLink now works with Android phones
Starting today, Amazon WorkLink supports access to internal corporate websites on Android mobile phones. With this update, your employees can use their Android phones to access internal corporate websites in Chrome as efficiently as they access any other website, without the hassle of connecting to their corporate network. Employees can simply type the URL in Chrome or click on a link in their email. Amazon WorkLink handles the authentication, and delivers the internal web content as vector graphics on their phones. Employees experience fast navigation and fluid responses to common actions such as scrolling, zooming, or typing, and internal content is never stored or cached by the phone browser.