Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 6.4 and Kibana 6.4. The new version of Elasticsearch and Kibana offers several new features and improvements, including weighted average aggregation, option to multiplex token filters, support for field aliases, and improved workflow for inspecting the data behind a visualization. 

Amazon Neptune is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region.

Out for a walk in rare sunshine, I stumbled across machinery in the woods – in the ruins of an old hut, to be precise. Winter has thinned the undergrowth, and a small brick chimney gave it away. I am guessing it is a water pump, and I am pretty sure there are the remains …

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I woke in the dead of night with a feeling that still hasn’t left me – that ‘they’ managed to get into my PC. Last year, sick of using knackered old PCs, and Windows 10, I bought an nearly new ex-business many-GHz quad core i7 Dell desktop with a solid-state drive and a Windows 7 …

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At Strategies in Light, sustainability analyst Jed Dorsheimer will present a view of the challenges and opportunities for the LED and lighting sectors. Here extends his perspective on the value proposition of SSL in the current business environment.

Amazon EKS Achieves ISO and PCI Amazon Elastic Container Service For Kubernetes (EKS) now meets the criteria for ISO and PCI DSS Level 1 compliance in AMER, EMEA, and APAC. 

AWS has published a service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon MQ. The SLA provides availability guarantees for Amazon MQ active/standby message brokers. 

You can now use Python scripts in AWS Glue to run small to medium-sized generic tasks that are often part of an ETL (extract, transform, and load) workflow. Previously, AWS Glue jobs were limited to those that ran in a serverless Apache Spark environment. You can now use Python shell jobs, for example, to submit SQL queries to services such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, or Amazon EMR, or run machine-learning and scientific analyses.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports 200 node Elasticsearch clusters, allowing you to run large analytics applications with high throughput and large data volume requirements on a single cluster. Using I3 instances that can store up to 15 terabytes of data per node, you can store up to 3 petabytes of data in a single cluster. 

AWS Systems Manager, which enables your desired state configuration through State Manager, now enforces configuration at the instance level, enabling configuration management on resources such as instance profiles, security groups, and images through integration with AWS Systems Manager Automation. You can safely schedule configurations inside and outside of your instances while applying those changes at a controlled velocity.