You can now develop your AWS Elastic Beanstalk applications using PHP 7.2. The latest PHP version comes with numerous improvements and new features such as counting of non-countable objects, object typehint, new sodium extensions, and improved TLS constants to sane values. For the complete list of PHP 7.2 features, including a PHP migration guide visit the official PHP 7.2 release announcement . You can upgrade your existing AWS Elastic Beanstalk PHP environment using the Elastic Beanstalk console or through the AWS CLI and Elastic Beanstalk API. See Migrating an Environement to a New Configuration for additional details.
Amazon EFS Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.
Amazon Comprehend is Now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to discover insights and relationships in text. Starting today, Amazon Comprehend is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.
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LED business news: Lumileds wins IP theft suit, Cree announces Q4 and accuses employee
In the latest round of LED business news, Lumileds has been awarded more than $60 million in a California court; while Cree has an investigation into IP theft underway, and reported a 14% uptick in revenue in its fourth-quarter financial statements.
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Amazon DynamoDB Backup and Restore Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet
Amazon DynamoDB Backup and Restore provides the capability to easily create on-demand and continuous backups of your DynamoDB tables and restore from these backups, if needed. You can back up tables from a few megabytes to hundreds of terabytes of data, with no impact on the performance or availability of your production applications.
With on-demand backup and restore, you can create full backups of your DynamoDB table for data archiving and retention, helping you meet your corporate and governmental regulatory requirements. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data, protecting you against accidental writes or deletes. When you enable PITR, you can recover that table from backup at any point in time from the moment you enable it to a maximum of the 35 preceding days.
DynamoDB backup and restore is now available in 16 AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), and China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet.
You can enable backup and restore for your DynamoDB table data with a single click in the AWS Management Console, a simple API call, or with the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). To learn more about DynamoDB backup and restore, see Backup and Restore
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Amazon Inspector Adds CIS Benchmark Support for Additional Linux Operating Systems
Amazon Inspector expands Center for Internet Security’s CIS Benchmarks support for Amazon Linux (v2018.03 and earlier), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v6 and 7), CentOS Linux (v6 and 7), and Ubuntu Linux (v14.04 and 16.04). You can now run Inspector CIS assessments on these Linux distributions to check the configuration of your Amazon EC2 instances against the security configuration best practices developed by CIS.
AWS Elemental MediaConvert Now Supports Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate (QVBR) Encoding
AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports a new video rate control mode, Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate (QVBR) encoding. QVBR is designed to deliver consistently high-quality video viewing experiences while keeping your bit budget under control, saving up to 50% on storage and delivery costs. QVBR can be used in both 1-pass and 2-pass modes with all quality settings and resolutions. It is supported with both the AVC and HEVC codecs, and is available at no additional charge. To learn more, please visit the QVBR documentation page .
AWS Direct Connect now in Kansas City, MO
AWS Direct Connect is now live in Kansas City, MO at the Netrality Properties 1102 Grand facility. This site can be found under its home region US East (Ohio) in the AWS Management Console. With global access for AWS Direct Connect, this site can reach AWS resources in any global AWS region using global public VIFs and Direct Connect Gateway. If you are connecting to any AWS region outside of the home region US East (Ohio), your traffic will take the shortest path to your desired AWS region and not hairpin via US East (Ohio).