European organization explores how the circular economy movement could add to the growth opportunity in the SSL sector and how policy can encourage such a possibility.

AWS Batch now emits CloudWatch Events as your jobs transition from one state to another. In the past, in order to obtain updates on the state of a running AWS Batch job, customers have had to rely on periodically polling the state of each job using the AWS CLI or an SDK. With the new AWS Batch event stream feature, it is now possible to retrieve near real-time, event-driven updates on the state of your AWS Batch jobs. Events are delivered through Amazon CloudWatch Events, and can be routed to any valid CloudWatch Events target, such as an AWS Lambda function or an Amazon SNS topic.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Standard Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD (Standard Edition), is a managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD) that is optimized for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Now, customers running typical SMB workloads can use AWS Microsoft AD (Standard Edition) to create a cost-effective, highly available, and managed Microsoft AD in the AWS Cloud.

You can now create AWS Glue entities such as jobs , triggers , development endpoints , and crawlers using CloudFormation templates. You can also create AWS Glue Data Catalog objects, such as tables and partitions , via CloudFormation templates . To learn more, please visit the CloudFormation documentation .

Amazon Pinpoint now supports the Apple PushKit framework, and includes expanded support for collapse keys, message priority, and Time to Live (TTL) for Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) and Apple Push Notification Service (APNs).

Performance Insights is a new feature of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) that helps you quickly detect database performance problems and take corrective action. Performance Insights has now been released in open preview.

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database that combines the performance and availability of commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. In April 2017, we announced an open preview of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora. The service is now generally available to all customers.

n the drinking water treatment plant in Vanhakaupunki 18 HYPERCLASSIC® Evolution7 mixers and three CYBERPITCH® mixers made by INVENT have been in operation since July 2017.

Flint City Council was supposed to decide by Monday whether to keep the city on Detroit’s water system.

Treatment facility gets $12M investment from Illinois American Water.