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Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 9.6.5, 9.5.9, 9.4.14, and 9.3.19. This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains other bug fixes and improvements.

Starting today, qualified educational customers can reduce their Amazon AppStream 2.0 user fee by 89% from $4.19 per user per month to $0.44. The user fee is required for every AppStream 2.0 user as part of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Subscription Access License (RDS SAL) fee. 

AWS Direct Connect provides private, high bandwidth connectivity between customer networks and AWS Cloud. The traffic sent over AWS Direct Connect connection stays within the AWS private network instead of traversing the public internet.

With the latest release of Amazon Athena, you can now run SQL queries on Geospatial data. To use the Geospatial functions in Amazon Athena, your data must be in WKT (Well-known Text) or WKB (Well-known Binary formats). You can use specialized data types such as point, line, polygon, multiline, & multi-polygon and calculate relationships such as distance, crosses, touches, overlaps, & disjoints between geometries. A full list of functions are available in the Athena documentation .  

You can now easily view the time stamps and duration for when agents log in and log out of Amazon Connect with the new Login/Logout report. This report provides you with the information you need to generate agent time cards for payroll. 

Apache MXNet version 0.12 is now available with two new important features—support for NVIDIA Volta GPUs, and support for Sparse Tensors. 

AWS Shield Advanced, a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service, now provides the global threat environment dashboard that shows DDoS trends and metrics across Amazon CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Route 53.

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate now supports Chef Automate version 1.6.x, which includes Chef Automate with integrated compliance.

Agreement executed with Stanford University to deploy, test and evaluate Fluence’s MABR wastewater treatment technology at Stanford’s Codiga Resource Recovery Center.