You can now record configuration changes to AWS Elastic Beanstalk resource types using AWS Config. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed in multiple languages. You upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. With Config, you can track changes to Elastic Beanstalk applications, application versions, environments, and all the resources configured within that environment. For example, you can view changes to your environment platform version, deployment and scaling policies, health policies, and tags. This information is useful for audit and compliance use cases in enterprises.

Today, AWS Auto Scaling is introducing two enhancements to provide more flexibility and visibility when you scale application resources: scaling plans based on resource tags and a new scaling dashboard.

You can now encrypt AWS X-Ray data with your own keys that you manage through AWS Key Management Service (KMS).

 

Amazon CloudFront announces the addition of a third Edge Location in Singapore and second Edge location in Taipei, Taiwan. Every Edge Location that we add to the AWS infrastructure increases CloudFront’s capacity to serve secure content with low latency and high availability, around the world. A full list of CloudFront’s global infrastructure can be seen on the CloudFront Details webpage. 

 

Tridonic adds IoT-Ready Alliance support in new LED driver, and a new dual-channel model, while Universal Lighting Technologies adds power for IoT sensors and controllers.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. The Text-to-Speech API is now an AWS HIPAA Eligible Service

You can now use AWS Glue in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS region.

Canadian company demonstrates another innovation on the industry’s slow road to flexible, transformative lighting materials.

In today’s LED business news roundup, Vital Vio has won another patent for its continuous disinfection technology while Lutron has acquired Ketra and Philips Lighting has lost a patent claim to WAC Lighting.

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam is here. This new exam allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform.

About the exam
The security exam covers incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and data protection. It validates understanding of specialized data classifications, data encryption methods, and secure Internet protocol, and the AWS mechanisms to implement them.

The exam is open to anyone who currently holds a Cloud Practitioner or Associate-level certification. We recommend candidates have five years of IT security experience designing and implementing security solutions, and at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads.

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