AWS Config now has a redesigned experience for discovering and setting up AWS-managed Config rules. You can now search managed rules by name, label, or description. This allows you to quickly filter rules based on services and rule descriptions. For example, you can type “EC2” in the search field to display all rules that apply to your Amazon EC2 resources. 

AWS Batch now supports customer provided AMIs. Previously, Managed Compute Environments launched instances of the ECS Optimized AMI. Now, when creating Managed Compute Environments, you can choose the specific AMI used by specifying the imageId. This makes it possible to change your EBS configuration, automatically mount EFS filesystems for shared storage among jobs, use local instance storage for scratch space, or configure drivers for GPU-accelerated jobs. 

Amazon QuickSight is now available in US East (Ohio). New users can sign up for QuickSight with US East (Ohio) as their home region, making SPICE capacity available in the region and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing QuickSight users can switch to US East (Ohio) via the region switcher in the User Interface to provision SPICE capacity, and to enable faster and cheaper connectivity to data sources in the region. With this launch, QuickSight is now available in US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) regions.

Regional partnership for proving program signed at provincial government ceremony.

 

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will cut prison utility costs 20% per year.

 

Town of Chibougamau to upgrade its waste water pumping stations thanks to Clean Water and Wastewater Fund.

Autry Industrial, LLC introduced a patent-pending cooling process for industrial applications that consumes no water and generates power.

 

It is Colorado Springs’ second oldest water valve.

 

The company has reached an agreement to acquire controlling interests in three distributors in the U.S. professional groundwater market.

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