Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift now supports the ability to query across databases in a Redshift cluster. With cross-database queries, you can seamlessly query data from any database in the cluster, regardless of which database you are connected to. Cross-database queries can eliminate data copies and simplify your data organization to support multiple business groups on the same cluster. Support for cross-database queries is available on Amazon Redshift RA3 instance types.

AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections. You can now use AWS Glue crawlers to infer schema of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections and create or update a table in the Glue Data Catalog. A configuration option allows you to specify if you want the crawler to crawl the entire data set or select a sample of the data to reduce crawl time.

Infosys Data Testing Workbench is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Infosys, an AWS Data & Analytics and AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Infosys Data Testing Workbench offers end-to-end automation of web-based data testing. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a detailed statement of work based on identified use cases, deployment of the solution, and training.

Customers using container services including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), or self-managed Kubernetes can now send their container logs to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using the Fluent Bit log router. Fluent Bit allows customers to route container logs to various AWS and partner monitoring solutions including Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Kinesis, Datadog, Splunk, and now Amazon S3.

Ultra Modern Water Coolers

If you’re considering Bottleless Water Dispensers for your office, school, medical facility or home, we know you’ll want to make sure that you’ve made the best choice available.

PureWater Dynamics  has been Denver’s leading provider and service company for more than twenty years and, above all else, has made its reputation on its outstanding service. A water cooler, bottleless or bottled, you have several options.

How to Choose the Best Water Filtration Service:

First:

Evaluate the space where you’re planning to install your new bottle less water cooler. Will there be room for a stand-along upright cooler or will you require a countertop water cooler ? For home or office kitchen top situations, you may even require an under-counter water dispenser.

Second:

Discuss with your co-workers or spouse whether they prefer a bottleless system or the older 5 gallon water bottles that will need to be lifted, delivered and stored. For the under-counter and counter-top units this isn’t an option.

Third:

With the bottleless water coolers, you will save money since replacement of bottles and delivery isn’t a problem. Bottleless water filtration systems require servicing only once or twice per year, depending on volume of use. Most of our customers choose this option as it is relatively hassle free and avoids the possible injuries of lifting those heavy bottles.

Fourth:

For more information about the difference in quality of water filtration check out: Water Filter Comparison Chart .

Getting informed about your choices is the best way to make the right choice. Choosing a local experienced company like PureWater Dynamics may be your best choice.

Be sure to follow this basic outline and you’ll be on your way to enjoying some great tasting and healthful water for your employees, clients or family.

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AWS Elemental MediaLive Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux) now supports MPEG-2 encoding. Broadcasters can now use the AWS cloud to perform MPEG-2 encoding to feed legacy devices with limited codec support, without needing to perform expensive upgrades of their customer’s or partner’s decoding devices. Now that MediaLive Statmux supports MPEG-2, and previously supported the AVC and HEVC codecs, broadcasters can now use MediaLive Statmux to reach the vast majority of devices that connect them to their customers.

This free new digital training curriculum contains modules that explain the benefits of and process for moving from self-managed databases to fully-managed database solutions in the cloud. The four-hour fundamental curriculum includes eight self-paced courses with video demonstrations and is designed for data platform engineers, database developers, and solutions architects.

Amazon Aurora now supports Database Activity Streams in the South America (Sao Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan) regions. Database Activity Streams for Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility provides a near real-time stream of database activities in your relational database. When integrated with third party database activity monitoring tools, Database Activity Streams can monitor and audit database activity to provide safeguards for your database and help you meet compliance and regulatory requirements.

Kubernetes is rapidly evolving, with frequent feature releases and bug fixes. Highlights of the Kubernetes 1.18 release include Topology Manager reaching beta status, a new beta of Server-side Apply , and a new IngressClass resource for the Ingress specification which makes it simpler to customize Ingress configuration. Additionally, you can now configure the behavior of horizontal pod autoscaling . Learn more about Kubernetes version 1.18 in the Kubernetes project release notes . 

Streaming extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs in AWS Glue can now ingest data from Apache Kafka clusters that you manage yourself. Previously, AWS Glue supported reading specifically from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). With this update, AWS Glue allows you to perform streaming ETL on data from Apache Kafka whether it is deployed on-premises or in the cloud.