Today, Amazon CloudWatch added support for using Service-Linked Roles to setup CloudWatch Alarms with EC2 actions. A service-linked role is a unique type of IAM role that is linked directly to CloudWatch. Service-linked roles are predefined by CloudWatch and include all the permissions that the service requires to call other AWS services on your behalf. 

AWS is excited to announce immediate availability of the new AWS EU (Paris) Region. Paris joins Ireland, Frankfurt, and London as the fourth AWS Region in Europe and as the 18th region worldwide, bringing the global total of AWS Availability Zones to 49.

Manufacturing facility will be dedicated to production and testing of filter cartridges.

Yahara WINS and partners welcome new members and prepare for phosphorus reduction efforts in 2018.

Ecolab opens Water University to help companies accelerate their progress.

Hydraulic forced vortex grit chambers from Smith & Loveless applied to replace plate settlers.

It is currently taking four and a half hours to sell or buy a Bitcoin, reports Business Insider. Each sale or purchase has to be confirmed by six miners. Miners prioritise the highest priced transaction and they also charge a reported $26 per trade. When the crash comes, the time transactions take and the fees …

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I am about to engage in a turf war with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Ed confides to his diary, some friends of mine could benefit from a shake-up of the procedures around the awarding of telco licences. Trouble is the Secretary of State guards his turf jealously. Nonetheless I …

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Thales is to buy Gemalto for €4.8 billion after topping a €4.3 billion offer made by Atos. “Combined with Gemalto’s unique leading digital security portfolio, Thales will be ideally positioned to offer an end-to-end solution, to secure the full critical digital decision chains, from data creation in sensors to real-time decision making,” said a joint …

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China is to ramp up its EV ambitions by putting quotas on domestic vehicle producers

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