Amazon Rekognition is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions.

Starting today, AWS Batch is available in US West (N. California), Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions.

Powered by advanced deep learning technologies, Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. The Text-to-Speech service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region , Amazon’s isolated cloud region built for sensitive data and regulated workloads.

You can now configure the Auto Scaling of your endpoints from the Amazon SageMaker console , the AWS Auto Scaling API , and the AWS SDK , making capacity management easier. Using Amazon SageMaker, you can specify the number and type of instances per endpoint to provide the scale that you need for your inferences. If your inference volume changes, you can change the number and/or type of instances that back each endpoint to accommodate that change. By using Auto Scaling, you can automatically adjust your inference capacity to maintain predictable performance at a low cost. From the Amazon SageMaker console, you configure the minimum and maximum number of instances for your endpoint, and then select the throughput per instance. Amazon SageMaker will monitor your deployed models to automatically adjust the instance count and keep throughput within desired levels, in response to changes in application traffic. This makes it easier to manage models in production, and it can help reduce the cost of deployed models. 

Oman’s Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW) has urged residents near to Barka desalination plant to conserve water amid an algal bloom that is threatening production.

Egypt is stepping up efforts to address water scarcity, pledging EGP 900 billion ($51 billion) for a national water management plan over 20 years.

Tunisia’s water utility, SONEDE, has shared details of recently completed and future desalination projects, including groundwater and seawater plants.

Saudi Arabia’s Water and Electricity Company (WEC) has pre-qualified 15 companies for Shuqaiq 3 desalination plant project.

Energy Recovery chief financial officer Chris Gannon has stepped up to the role of interim chief executive.

Justices upheld the EPA’s 2008 “water transfers rule.”