The EW BrightSparks programme holds its celebratory award event at the prestigious venue of the Houses of Parliament.

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Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support minor versions 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11 and 9.3.16. Highlights include fixes to prevent data corruption issues in index builds and in certain write-ahead-log replay situations, support for the pg_hint_plan, log_fdw and pg_freespacemap extensions, and many other bug fixes and improvements.

AWS Lambda’s default concurrent execution limit has been raised to 1,000 concurrent function executions. Lambda uses a default safety throttle for the number of concurrent executions across all functions in a given region per account. Concurrent executions refers to the number of executions of your function code that are happening at any given time.

You can now use Caffe2 with the AWS Deep Learning AMI for Amazon Linux , available on the AWS Marketplace. The addition of Caffe2, a project led by Facebook, allows developers another choice of deep learning frameworks on the AWS platform. To learn more about Caffe2, visit the GitHub repository .

Amazon Cognito is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region.

Today, we added two new connectors for Presto and Apache Spark. Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against datasets ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Like Presto, Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed processing system commonly used for big data workloads. Amazon QuickSight customers can now connect to Presto and Spark (with LDAP authentication enabled) running on Amazon EMR 5.5.0 or above, or self-hosted clusters on EC2 and analyze their big data at interactive speed. Customers can choose to directly query against the Presto and Spark engines, or ingest their data into SPICE for faster visualization.

In part two of its pilot project digital diary, Dow Water & Process Solutions addresses the challenge of three very different petrochemical plant feed waters.

Sudan’s Ministry of Finance has committed 72.4 million SGD ($10.9 million) for water projects in the state of Red Sea, including four temporary desalination stations, reports Sudan Vision.

Battelle has been conducting the water quality monitoring of the Bay for MWRA since 1990.

 

Israel’s national water company Mekorot is restructuring and may sell off parts of its portfolio after running into financial difficulty, reports Israeli business publication, TheMarker.