The Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service scheduler now allows you to define a grace period to prevent premature shutdown of newly instantiated tasks. 

The Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service scheduler now includes logic that throttles how often tasks are restarted if they repeatedly fail to launch. 

You can now use Apache Spark 2.2.1, Apache Hive 2.3.2, and Amazon SageMaker integration with Apache Spark on Amazon EMR release 5.11.0. Spark 2.2.1 and Hive 2.3.2 include various bug fixes and improvements. Amazon SageMaker Spark is an open-source Spark library for Amazon SageMaker, a fully-managed service which can build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale. It enables you to interleave Spark stages and stages that interact with Amazon SageMaker in your Spark ML Pipelines, allowing you to train models using Spark DataFrames in Amazon SageMaker with Amazon-provided ML algorithms like K-Means clustering or XGBoost.

The PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is now available in the AWS EU (Paris) region. This increases the number of available regions to nine, giving you more options for database placement, availability, and scalability. 

The AWS Support Center has been redesigned to help resolve your AWS support questions faster and to proactively alert you to potential issues through a convenient integration of information, tools and resources. 

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the agency is seeking the input to “properly address lead and ensure communities have access to safe drinking water.”

The G3 is a 240-pound robotic crawler equipped with several sensors.

NASA awards exclusive license to the company to commercialize in-situ remediation technology.

Farm groups are pressing Iowa lawmakers to find a “long-term” source of tax dollars for state programs that prevent soil and fertilizer run-off from farmland and improve the quality of Iowa water. 

Renesas and Green Hills Software are collaborating on a Connected Cockpit Vehicle with a Dodge Ram truck. The truck integrates the Renesas R-Car H3 automotive computing SoC, and Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS and INTEGRITY Multivisor secure virtualisation, and features ISO 26262-safety critical applications with Android infotainment and cockpit features. The R-Car H3 is part of Renesas’ platform …

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