Water Authority solicits proposals for potential 500-megawatt pumped storage project with city of San Diego.

Join Tom Freyberg for a video wrap up of the latest news from the desalination and water reuse industries…

City of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, resolves Clean Water Act violations

China now has 131 seawater desalination plants operating with the majority of the produced water being used to quench the country’s thirsty industries…

Airports, convention centers, malls, and other public gathering spots rely on people-moving systems, but users often fear germs on the handrails touched by thousands. Ultraviolet LEDs may solve the sterilization issue.

Amazon Kinesis Firehose is the easiest way to prepare and load real-time streaming data into AWS. The Kinesis Firehose management console is the primary tool for creating and managing Kinesis Firehose delivery streams. Today we have launched the redesigned Kinesis Firehose management console to make it even easier to use.

Six Availability Zones (AZs) are now available for customers in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. As customers in the US and across the globe continue to grow their usage of AWS, we will continue to expand our infrastructure to meet their needs. This launch brings AWS’s global AZ total to 44 AZs within 16 geographic Regions around the world, with announced plans for 14 more AZs and five more Regions.

AWS Mobile Hub released enhancements to the project import feature today, allowing a developer to import Cloud Logic functions through the one-click import from GitHub feature.  With the Cloud Logic import feature, developers can also specify environment variables and CORS settings, allowing for the same code to be used for multiple functions with different settings (for example, test vs. production workloads or CRUD API for different tables within a DynamoDB database). The Cloud Logic import feature will also provide appropriate authorization for a linked Amazon DynamoDB database and Amazon API gateway, taking care of all resource deployments, service connections and IAM configuration with a single command. 

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support minor versions 9.6.3, 9.5.7, 9.4.12 and 9.3.17. This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains other bug fixes and improvements. 

Two weeks ago, we launched updates to the user list page by adding new information that helps you adhere to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices. In March, we introduced policy summaries , which make it easier for you to understand the permissions in your IAM policies.