Despite dumping LEDs and bulbs, the venerable Dutch giant doubles its capacity in modern light sources — VCSELs, that is.

You can now expose clients to 1+1 redundant HLS channels when using AWS Elemental MediaLive. MediaLive provides two encoding pipelines to create a redundant channel. When using an origin service like AWS Elemental MediaStore , both pipelines can be referenced by one top-level HLS manifest for a single, highly available endpoint for your live channel.

We are excited to announce the addition of 15 free, new, individually available digital courses to our online training portfolio. Launched at AWS re:Invent 2018, these 10-minute video courses introduce services for machine learning (ML), satellite communications , global services , medical data analytics , and more. These 15 courses are also grouped together in a free new digital curriculum called AWS re:Invent 2018 New Services .

Customers can now get Amazon S3 Inventory reports in Apache Parquet file format. Amazon S3 Inventory provides flat file lists of objects and selected metadata for your bucket or shared prefixes. You can use S3 Inventory to list, audit, and report on the status of your objects, or to simplify and speed up business workflows and big data jobs.  

You can now use Amazon Pinpoint to create campaigns that send messages (such as text messages, push notifications, and emails) to your customers when they take specific actions within your apps. For example, you can set up a campaign to trigger a message when a customer creates a new account, or when they add an item to their cart but don’t purchase it. Event-based campaigns help you send messages that are timely, personalized, and relevant to your customers, which ultimately increases their trust in your brand and gives them a reason to return.

Event-based campaigns address both transactional and targeted campaign use cases. For transactional workloads, imagine you want to send a receipt each time a customer uses mobile pay; you can create event-based campaigns to address this in as little as 4 clicks. Targeted event-based campaigns are a great way to introduce cross-sale opportunities for complementary items. For example, if a customer adds a phone to their mobile shopping cart, you can trigger an in-app push notification that offers a discount on a case that fits the device that they’re purchasing.

There are no additional charges associated with creating event-based campaigns. You pay only for the number of endpoints that you target, the number of messages that you send, and the number of analytics events that you send to Amazon Pinpoint (detailed pricing info here). You can use these features today in every AWS Region where Amazon Pinpoint is available . For more information and links to best practices, please visit our blog post and documentation .

X-Ray now automatically analyzes your traces and assigns to one or more root causes. This enables you to filter traces by a particular root cause and quickly determine whether same error or faults are behind performance issues. 

AWS License Manager makes it easier to manage licenses in AWS and on-premises servers from software vendors such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM. AWS License Manager lets administrators create customized licensing rules that emulate the terms of their licensing agreements, and then enforces these rules when an instance of EC2 gets launched. Administrators can use these rules to limit licensing violations, such as using more licenses than an agreement stipulates or reassigning licenses to different servers on a short-term basis. The rules in AWS License Manager enable you to limit a licensing breach by physically stopping the instance from launching or by notifying administrators about the infringement. Administrators gain control and visibility of all their licenses with the AWS License Manager dashboard and reduce the risk of non-compliance, misreporting, and additional costs due to licensing overages.

AWS License Manager integrates with AWS services to simplify the management of licenses across multiple AWS accounts, IT catalogs, and on-premises, through a single AWS account. License administrators can add rules in AWS Service Catalog, which allows them to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on all their AWS accounts. Through seamless integration with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Organizations, administrators can manage licenses across all the AWS accounts in an organization and on-premises environments. AWS Marketplace buyers can also use AWS License Manager to track bring your own license (BYOL) software obtained from the Marketplace and keep a consolidated view of all their licenses.

To learn more access the AWS License Manager page.

This Quick Start sets up an Aviatrix Site to Cloud VPN service that includes an AVX Controller and AVX Gateways on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 10 minutes.

Bain Capital is among the private equity firms that are interested in the LED and lighting technology specialist, and so are other types of companies, according to reports.

Eaton has settled a patent infringement action against other luminaire makers, while Seoul Semiconductor has expanded its IP action against retailer Fry’s; and MLS has made the move to combine Forest Lighting into its LEDvance business unit.