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As lighting connects to the Internet, “smart building” software can combine it with other systems and control it, as Zumtobel has discovered. It can help store the data, too.

We recognize how important it is for APN Partners to learn how AWS solutions can solve customer business needs. To this end, we’ve expanded our AWS Solutions Training for Partners with a second topic on Big Data & Analytics. This workshop is designed to help business professionals at APN Consulting Partner firms understand and address big data and analytics challenges faced by small-medium and enterprise businesses. We cover AWS best practices and case studies, and discuss how to address customer pain points with AWS big data and analytics solutions. This free, one day workshop compliments and extends concepts from the Big Data & Analytics e-learning and AWS Business Professional, which are both free, online courses available to all APN Partners via the APN Portal.

Starting today, you can create cross-region read replicas for Amazon Aurora. This allows you to serve read traffic from your users in different geographic regions and increases your application’s responsiveness. 

This major update to the NIST 800-53 Quick Start (published earlier this year) deploys a standardized environment that helps support additional NIST-based security requirements on the AWS cloud. Specifically, it helps organizations with workloads that fall in scope for any of the following:

• National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) SP 800-53 (Revision 4)
• NIST SP 800-171
• The OMB Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) Initiative – FedRAMP Overlay (pilot)
• The DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG)

Starting today, customers can launch MariaDB version 10.1 instances on Amazon RDS. They can also upgrade their existing Amazon RDS for MariaDB database instances from version 10.0 to 10.1 using either the console or API.

Water technologists at Xylem have developed what they are calling “the world’s first pumping system with integrated intelligence.”

Desalination capacity is expected to grow by 8 per cent annually to 140 million m3/d by 2020, new research shows.

The contract will provide services to approximately 340,000 homes and businesses throughout the region.