AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when costs and usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your user-defined thresholds. Using AWS Budgets, you can monitor your total monthly costs or refine your budgets to track costs associated with specific usage dimensions (e.g., Amazon EC2 resource costs tagged as project: secretProject for a set of linked accounts). 

We are pleased to announce Amazon Elasticsearch Service now allows you to encrypt your data using keys that you manage through AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Elasticsearch is a popular open source search and analytics engine for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring, and more. Amazon Elasticsearch Service delivers Elasticsearch’s easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with the availability, scalability, and security required by production workloads. 

Amazon Pinpoint Extensions (Public Beta) now enables customers: 1) to integrate new channels such as social messenger and in-app messaging channels, with Pinpoint segmentation and campaign management capabilities and 2) to enrich campaign segmentation and messaging during campaign execution by defining AWS Lambda functions to run on each campaign execution. 

AWS Service Catalog is announcing that it is now available in new regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul), US West (N. California), and South America (Sao Paulo). With the latest release, AWS Service Catalog is now available in 14 regions including US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, and London), South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). 

AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) is a cloud SSO service that makes it easy to centrally manage SSO access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications. It enables users to sign in to a user portal with their existing corporate credentials and access all of their assigned accounts and applications from one place. 

You can now customize the emails that Amazon SES sends when verifying new identities. This feature is helpful for developers whose applications send email through Amazon SES on behalf of their customers. By changing the verification email to match the style and branding of your application, you can reduce customer confusion and improve the rate at which new customers complete the onboarding process. 

Spain’s ministry of agriculture and environment is to double capacity at the Torrevieja desalination plant, reports local newspaper The Leader.

If accepted by New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection, the recommendation would impose a MCL for the chemical in drinking water.

The spill occurred late Wednesday night into Thursday morning.