Signify’s low-blue recipe and downward optics should help keep northern Tenerife safe for stargazing.

One of the so-called “Big 3” players in the legacy lighting business will no longer sell end products after Osram finds a buyer for its Lighting Solutions luminaires business unit.

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now enables you to retrieve secrets managed in AWS Secrets Manager. With this launch, you can use a single set of APIs for retrieving your parameters managed in Parameter Store as well as secrets managed in Secrets Manager. For more details on retrieving Secrets Manager secrets using Parameter Store, visit our documentation here .

Amazon Redshift is now available on two different release cycles – Current Maintenance Track and Trailing Maintenance Track. With the Current Maintenance Track you will get the most up-to-date certified release version with the latest features, security updates, and performance enhancements. With the Trailing Maintenance Track you will be on the previous certified release. 

Amazon EC2 Fleet simplifies the provisioning of EC2 capacity across different instance types, Availability Zones (AZs) and across On-Demand, Reserved Instances (RIs) and Spot purchase models, optimizing scale, performance and cost. Allocation strategies lets you determine how EC2 Fleet should select from instances and AZs you have specified to fulfill the desired capacity. Until today, you had the option of selecting the single cheapest Instance Pool for Spot and On-Demand, or diversifying Spot Instances across multiple instance types and AZs in an EC2 Fleet.

Starting today, you can use Prioritized List to specifically determine the order in which EC2 Fleet attempts to fulfill your On-Demand capacity. EC2 Fleet will attempt to launch all capacity using the instance with the highest priority first, and if all your capacity cannot be fulfilled using your highest priority instance then EC2 Fleet will attempt launching capacity using the second priority instance type. You can define a priority for all instances you specify in your EC2 Fleet.

Starting today you can also balance desired cost and availability in the context of applications by directing EC2 Fleet to evenly deploy Spot capacity across the N lowest priced Instance Pools. For example if you are running batch processing, you may prefer to set N to just 2 to maximize savings while attempting to ensure your queue always has compute capacity. However, if you are running a web service you may set N to 10 to minimize the impact of any Spot Instance Pool becoming temporarily unavailable.

These new allocation strategies are also available in Spot Fleet. To learn more Prioritized List in EC2 Fleet visit this page, and to learn more about and Lowest*N strategy visit this page. Visit this blog to learn more about EC2 Fleet.

We’re excited to announce the availability of Lumberyard Beta 1.15. With over 270 improvements, fixes, and new features, we’re focusing on how Lumberyard’s integration with AWS enables game developers of all sizes to connect their games and accelerate game development. Some highlights include: 

Commercially-available luminaires sold with efficacy claims in the 200-lm/W range deliver mixed results in US Department of Energy testing at PNNL, with glare being a recurring issue and most products falling short of efficacy specifications.

CEO Eric Rondolat reverses his outlook from three months ago, while Signify’s second-quarter results fall. There are bright spots, though, as lighting’s transition fights on.

Now, you can use Amazon DynamoDB global tables to replicate table data to three additional Asia Pacific AWS Regions. Global tables is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions.

Global tables builds upon the global footprint of DynamoDB to provide you a fully managed, multi-region, multi-master database. It enables you to replicate table updates automatically across the AWS Regions you select. With global tables, you can give massively scaled, global applications local access to Amazon DynamoDB tables for fast read and write performance. You can also use global tables to replicate DynamoDB table data to additional AWS Regions for higher availability.

With this launch, DynamoDB global tables is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), and US East (N. Virginia) Regions.

For global tables pricing in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Sydney), see Global Tables Pricing .

AWS Elemental MediaTailor is a content personalization and monetization service that lets you serve video with targeted ads to viewers while maintaining broadcast quality-of-service in multiscreen video applications.