We are pleased to announce new Amazon Aurora capabilities for global database deployment. Replication across AWS regions now supports encrypted databases, so you can scale read operations to a location close to your users, build a disaster recovery architecture that spans the globe, and easily migrate data from one region to another, all the while maintaining full encryption at rest and in transit.

Amazon Aurora now supports the sharing of encrypted snapshots between AWS accounts. This follows our recent announcement of encrypted database replication and snapshot copy across regions, and extends the Aurora security model to separate accounts that have shared encryption keys. The owner of the other account can copy the snapshot or restore a database instance from it.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), known as AWS Microsoft AD, is now available in the Canada (Central) Region.

AWS Step Functions is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) region.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) continues to make migrations easier by adding the ability to reload data for an individual table. When a database table is migrated as part of a larger migration task, you can choose to reload it while the migration is already running, without having to reload all tables in the task. This adds a new level of flexibility so you can complete a migration quicker than ever before. DMS can move data between heterogeneous database engines, giving you the freedom to migrate your databases unchanged to AWS or to replace expensive, restrictive commercial databases with cloud-enabled, cost-effective ones.

AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, your applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected.

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Carroll Water has acquired Meadow Brook Water Service Inc.

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