Gold Coast Australia will be incorporating TaKaDu’s solution into its network to help reduce water loss…
Wimbledon Centre Court aces transition to LED lighting
Musco, working with ME Engineers, has installed LED lighting in the retractable roof that covers Wimbledon Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
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AWS CloudFormation coverage updates for Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EC2, Amazon EMR, Amazon DynamoDB and more
You can now provision the following AWS resources using CloudFormation.
- AWS::ApiGateway::DomainName
- Use the AWS::ApiGateway::DomainName resource to specify a custom, friendly URL for your API that’s deployed to Amazon API Gateway.
- AWS::EC2::EgressOnlyInternetGateway
- Create an egress-only Internet gateway for your VPC with the AWS::EC2::EgressOnlyInternetGateway resource.
- AWS::EMR::InstanceFleetConfig
- Configure a spot instance fleet for an Amazon EMR cluster using the InstanceFleetConfig resource.
Amazon WorkMail Now Allows You to Configure Email Flow Rules
Starting today, you can now use email flow rules to filter inbound email traffic for your Amazon WorkMail organizations. This helps you reduce email from unwanted senders, route suspicious mail to junk folders, and make sure important messages are successfully delivered.
New Information in the AWS IAM Console Helps You Adhere to IAM Best Practices
Today, we made it easier for you to follow AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices by adding additional information in the Users section of the IAM console . This new information in the IAM user table helps you monitor user activity in your AWS account and identify access keys and passwords that should be rotated regularly . It also enables you to better audit users’ MFA device usage, and gives you better visibility into users’ group memberships. This information is available in all AWS regions today.
Now You Can Configure Password Policies to Help Meet Your Security Standards with AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory
Starting today, you can use AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD, to help enforce password policies that meet your security standards. AWS has added five password policies to your AWS Microsoft AD directory, and you can configure and manage these policies to enforce different security requirements for different user groups.
AWS Config Supports Rules in South America (Sao Paulo) and Canada (Central) regions
AWS Config now supports pre-built and custom rules in South America (Sao Paulo) and Canada (Central) regions.
Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards adds APIs and CloudFormation support
We are excited to announce the availability of APIs and CloudFormation support for Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards . You can use the new dashboard APIs or CloudFormation templates to dynamically build and maintain dashboards to monitor your infrastructure and applications.
Solar nanotechnology desalination system developed by NEWT Center
A new desalination system has been developed in Texas that combines membrane distillation technology and light-harvesting nanophotonics…
Barbados Water Authority secures funding for desalination projects
Barbados Water Authority (BWA) has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Caribbean Development Bank, partly to provide funds for two new desalination plants.