AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Standard Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD (Standard Edition), is a managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD) that is optimized for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Now, customers running typical SMB workloads can use AWS Microsoft AD (Standard Edition) to create a cost-effective, highly available, and managed Microsoft AD in the AWS Cloud.

You can now create AWS Glue entities such as jobs , triggers , development endpoints , and crawlers using CloudFormation templates. You can also create AWS Glue Data Catalog objects, such as tables and partitions , via CloudFormation templates . To learn more, please visit the CloudFormation documentation .

Amazon Pinpoint now supports the Apple PushKit framework, and includes expanded support for collapse keys, message priority, and Time to Live (TTL) for Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) and Apple Push Notification Service (APNs).

Performance Insights is a new feature of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) that helps you quickly detect database performance problems and take corrective action. Performance Insights has now been released in open preview.

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database that combines the performance and availability of commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. In April 2017, we announced an open preview of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora. The service is now generally available to all customers.

n the drinking water treatment plant in Vanhakaupunki 18 HYPERCLASSIC® Evolution7 mixers and three CYBERPITCH® mixers made by INVENT have been in operation since July 2017.

Flint City Council was supposed to decide by Monday whether to keep the city on Detroit’s water system.

Treatment facility gets $12M investment from Illinois American Water.

FCC is pioneering a drone project to speed up, facilitate and improve the inspection of Barcelona’s 1,500 km sewerage system…

BrainChip, the neural net specialist, has shipped its first BrainChip Accelerator card to a major European automobile manufacturer. It is the first commercial implementation of a hardware-accelerated spiking neural network (SNN) system. The BrainChip Accelerator is an example of neuromorphic computing, a branch of artificial intelligence that simulates neuron functions. BrainChip Accelerator will be evaluated …

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