You can now log user actions taken in AWS Elemental MediaLive using AWS CloudTrail . When CloudTrail is enabled, you can access a comprehensive log of all public API calls made to MediaLive through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, or the AWS Command Line Interface, providing an audit of actions for troubleshooting.

AWS Cloud9, a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser, is now integrated with AWS CloudTrail, enabling you to more easily track changes made to Cloud9. CloudTrail captures these changes and delivers the log files to an Amazon S3 bucket you specify, giving you visibility into Cloud9 environment creation and deletion.

My reason for getting a filament-style 3D printer was to make a bicycle lamp, based on ideas that had been settling for one to be printed by a commercial selective laser scintering (SLS) service. And what fun I have had for £100 (plus £30 for printing filament) – far more than I envisaged – although …

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Couldn’t resist mentioning one more thing about 3D printing. My little printer has a malady that afflicts even some quite expensive printers – z-wobble. The z-axis of a 3D printer is the vertical axis, so to travel in the z-direction is to move through the layers rather than along them. Z-wobble is usually spotted when …

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You can now use AWS Backup, an automated and centralized backup service, to protect EBS volumes and your other AWS resources. With AWS Backup, you can configure backups for EBS volumes, automate backup scheduling, set retention policies, and monitor backup and restore activity.

Backup Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) with AWS Backup.

AWS Backup was launched today, and it is integrated with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS, Amazon EFS, and AWS Storage Gateway to give you a fully managed AWS backup solution.

AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the back up of data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on premises. With AWS Backup, protecting your AWS resources, such as Amazon EFS file systems, is as easy as a few clicks in the AWS Backup console. Customers can configure and audit the AWS resources they want to back up, automate backup scheduling, set retention policies, and monitor all recent backup and restore activity.