This new Quick Start automatically deploys Secure@Source, a data security intelligence and analytics tool from Informatica, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. 

AWS Budgets now allows you to set RI utilization alerts for your Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache reservations, in addition to setting alerts on your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances.

RI Utilization alerts allow you to set a custom utilization target for one or more reservations pertaining to the same AWS service, and notify you when your reservation utilization drops below that threshold. Reservation utilization tracks the percentage of reserved hours that were used by matching instances, and can be monitored by AWS Budgets at a daily, monthly, quarterly, or yearly level. You can monitor your reservation utilization at an aggregate level (e.g., monthly utilization of your Amazon RDS fleet) or at a granular level of detail (e.g., daily utilization of db.m4.2xlarge instances running in a specific region). From there, you can define up to five notifications. Each notification can be sent to a maximum of ten email subscribers, and can be broadcast to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.

To get started with utilization alerts, please access the AWS Budgets dashboard or refer to the Managing your Costs with Budgets user guide.

 

AWS OpsWorks now supports Puppet Enterprise, offering a fully-managed configuration management service that hosts Puppet Enterprise and maintains Puppet master servers. 

Utilities’ water reuse projects aim to expand dwindling supplies.

As Congress explores options to bolster the nation’s infrastructure, including the water and wastewater sectors, a report for the National Association of Water Companies (NAWC) said more than $60 billion could be generated simply through regulatory reform.

Rather than level two aging anaerobic digesters, the City of Austin, Minn., was hopeful that high-performance protective coating and lining systems could extend the digesters’ lives.

As part of its Force Main Asset Management Program, the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District utilizes path marking technology to track underground assets in order to streamline sewer system improvements and respond more quickly to emergencies.

With the recent adoption of an MCL for TCP in California, many water systems will have to spend large sums of money to treat and mitigate water contamination. In some cases, product liability litigation has resulted in financial assistance for treatment systems.

Collection of equipment and services related to pumps and pump systems.

The Municipal Authority of the Borough of Morrisville, Bucks County, Pa., recently completed the final piece for its effluent discharge quality upgrade with the installation of three cloth media filters.