You now have a number of new Amazon S3 features to augment data protection and simplify compliance.

AWS Batch users are now able to create Managed Compute Environments which launch Amazon EC2 P3 instances. This allows developers to submit GPU-accelerated jobs without having to worry about managing compute resources.  

In September 2016, we introduced Convertible RIs which provide customers with the flexibility to change an RI’s instance type, OS, tenancy or payment option during its term. Today, we are announcing a few enhancements to Convertible RIs.

This Quick Start automates the design, setup, and configuration of hardware and software to implement a data lake on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. The Quick Start provisions Talend Big Data Platform components and AWS services such as Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to build a data lake. It also provides an optional sample dataset and Talend jobs developed by Cognizant Technology Solutions to illustrate big data practices for integrating Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3 technologies into a data lake implementation. 

Starting today, AWS Glue API calls are recorded and available in AWS CloudTrail. AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.  

The Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) command line interface (CLI) is now available as version 1.0.0. 

Aquam Corporation has secured $26 million in growth capital that will go toward further product development and geographic expansion of the company’s key businesses.

Unique, pure form of lignin works as an abundantly available raw material for making high-quality activated carbons.

Apple’s planned billion dollar Irish data centre is under question. The Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar (pictured)  says Tim Cook will no longer commit to it. Varadkar says his government will do whatever’s necessary to get it built. However planning permission has proved hard to get. The data centre was to have been built on the …

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TSMC’s annual sports day saw its 38,000,employees share US$15 million in bonuses. Last year they shared $13 million between 36,000 which worked out at $400 each. The traditional  sports day cash gift is in addition to year-end and quarterly bonuses. Morris Chang told the sports day participants that their energy gave him faith in the …

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