We are happy to announce the launch of our third edge location in Paris, France! This brings Amazon CloudFront’s total edge locations to 91 (including 80 points of presence and 11 regional edge cache locations). To see a full list of CloudFront locations, please visit our website here. Meet with the CloudFront team at one of our upcoming webinars.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows you to use microphones and other audio input devices with your streamed applications. With this capability, you can use popular collaboration applications, call center solutions, and tools used to record voiceovers, such as video editing software with AppStream 2.0. Since your applications are streamed to an HTML5 browser, your users can now access these solutions from Windows PCs, Mac OS devices, and Linux-based desktops.

The Biosolids Digester Facilities Project aims to replace existing digester facilities with new, expanded facilities, as well as improve energy recovery and maximize odor control.

With Chess Wise’s MyriaMesh, new LEDs turn on only when needed rather than staying lit 24/7 as the old fluorescents have done. It’s part of a lighting-as-a-service contract at the Chemelot site.

Today, AWS Marketplace  released new feature enhancements to the Seller Self-Service Listings  feature, a web-based interface that lets AWS Marketplace software vendors manage their product listings through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal  (AMMP). SaaS software vendors that have product listings in AWS Marketplace can now use Self-Service Listings to upload new SaaS Contract products, or make changes to their SaaS Subscriptions and SaaS Contracts product listings, including updating product metadata and making pricing changes. In addition, Self-Service Listings now enables sellers to sunset their AMI or SaaS listings.

Data from NOAA’s GOES-R series satellite is available on Amazon S3. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operates a constellation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) to provide continuous weather imagery and monitoring of meteorological and space environment data for the protection of life and property across the United States. GOES satellites provide critical atmospheric, oceanic, climatic and space weather products supporting weather forecasting and warnings, climatologic analysis and prediction, ecosystems management, safe and efficient public and private transportation, and other national priorities.

Archive data from the UK Met Office Global and Regional Ensemble Prediction System (MOGREPS) is now available on Amazon S3. Data from two models is available: MOEGREPS-UK, a high resolution weather forecast covering the United Kingdom, and MOGREPS-G, a global weather forecast. MOGREPS is primarily designed to aid the forecasting of rapid storm development, wind, rain, snow and fog. Accurate weather forecasts allow farmers to predict when to plant crops, let airlines know when it’s safe to fly, help governments plan for transportation hazards, and are useful in a number of other ways.

Amazon Connect is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) AWS Region, adding to the two regions where it is already available, the US East (Northern Virginia), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Regions.

This Quick Start automatically deploys the IT infrastructure for implementing SAS Grid and related SAS components on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers Multi-AZ support in the EU Central (Frankfurt) region. This new high availability option leverages SQL Server Mirroring technology, with additional improvements, to meet the requirements of enterprise-grade production workloads running on SQL Server.