Mesh wireless network enables control of LED street lights for programmatic changes in light levels, while optical sensors enable autonomous dimming for maximum energy savings.

You can now use Amazon Inspector to run security assessments on regulated workloads and sensitive data hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. Amazon Inspector is formally approved by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Joint Authorization Board (JAB) as an approved vulnerability scanning tool for AWS services built on EC2.

Starting today, Amazon Pinpoint users can use the Phone Number Validate feature to improve the delivery rates of SMS messages they send using Amazon Pinpoint. Phone Number Validate corrects errors that often occur when end users enter their phone numbers on web-based forms. For example, if end users omit their country codes, or if they include an unnecessary leading digit (required for domestic calls in some countries), Phone Number Validate will automatically correct the phone number by applying country-specific formatting rules.

(Updated) Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle offers a new capability called Optimize CPUs . It provides two ways to enhance the value of your Oracle Database licenses: you can specify a custom number of cores when launching new instances, and you can disable Intel Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology.

Starting today, you can use AWS Firewall Manager to easily roll out AWS WAF rules for all your Application Load Balancers in the Europe (Ireland) region across your accounts in AWS Organizations.

This Quick Start deploys Jupiter—Cognizant’s continuous data testing accelerator and a component of Cognizant’s Adaptive Data Foundation offering—on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about one hour. You can automate and run quality-assurance tests on data stored in the AWS Cloud in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, or Apache Hive on Amazon EMR.  

Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Today, AWS announced the release of a DynamoDB service level agreement (SLA), which promises a stronger availability commitment with no scheduled downtime. AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make DynamoDB available for each AWS Region, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.99% (the “Service Commitment”) and as described on Amazon DynamoDB Service Level Agreement . If all of your DynamoDB tables in the applicable AWS region are part of Global Tables , the availability promise will be at least 99.999%.

This SLA is now available in all DynamoDB Regions , and the Global Tables SLA is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions. See Amazon DynamoDB Service Level Agreement for more details about our monthly uptime percentage commitment and service credits. You can learn more about DynamoDB and get started today.

AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with thousands of software listings from popular software vendors, has announced that customers can now find, buy, and deploy SaaS and API products in AWS Marketplace for AWS GovCloud (US). Public Sector, Government, Education, and other regulated customers can now purchase only the software they need with flexible payment options, including hourly, monthly, annual, and multi-year contracts. 

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL minor versions 10.3, 9.6.8, 9.5.12, 9.4.17, and 9.3.22 in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. This release fixes PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities included in current and previous minor releases by the PostgreSQL community and contains additional bug fixes and improvements.

With this update, we have also added support for the ‘amcheck ’ extension to verify the logical consistency of the structure of indexes in PostgreSQL version 10.3; pg_hint_plan extension has been upgraded to 1.2.2 in PostgreSQL 9.6.8; and PLV8 extension has been updated to version 2.1.0 in PostgreSQL version 9.6.8, 9.5.12, 9.4.17, and 9.3.22.

To use the new versions, you can create a new Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instance with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console , or upgrade an existing instance using point-and-click upgrades. An upgrade operation involves a short period of unavailability for your database instance. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for regional availability.

The AWS Storage Gateway service added the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol to File Gateway , enabling file-based applications developed for Microsoft Windows to easily store and access objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). With File Gateway, applications can now store files as objects in Amazon S3 using SMB versions 2 and 3, as well as Network File System (NFS) versions 3 and 4.1. You can control access to File Gateway SMB file shares and objects using your corporate Active Directory (AD) domains, or you can use authenticated guest access. File Gateway caches your most recently used data locally, providing on-premises applications with low-latency access. File Gateway simplifies moving data to Amazon S3, supporting hybrid object-based workloads, such as machine learning and big data analytics, as well as backup and data archival in Amazon S3.