You can now easily develop, build, and deploy cross-platform .NET Core applications with AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodeStar. 

AWS Direct Connect is announcing general availability of Amazon CloudWatch monitoring for customers’ physical connections to all AWS Regions worldwide except China. AWS Direct Connect customers can now use Amazon CloudWatch Metrics to monitor their physical connections, and use Amazon CloudWatch Alarms to notify them of changes in their physical AWS Direct Connect connection and to trigger actions with the help of Amazon SNS topics. 

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager can now send inventory data to Amazon S3 buckets, enabling data queries and visualization across multiple accounts and regions. 

Amazon GameLift now emits logs that help you debug fleet creation. Logs give you greater visibility into build extraction, installation, and runtime configuration validation that help you debug issues seen during fleet creation. After your fleet is created, you can still continue debugging instances of your game server using Amazon GameLift’s server logs and remote instance functionality. 

AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodePipeline are Now Available in US West (San Francisco), EU (London), and Canada (Central) Regions. 

CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools. 

The AWS Database Migration Service makes it easy for you to migrate production databases to AWS with minimal downtime. You can keep your applications running while you are migrating your database and the AWS Database Migration Service ensures that data changes to the source database that occur during and after the migration are continuously replicated to the target. Migration tasks can be setup in minutes in the AWS Management Console. The AWS Database Migration Service can migrate your data to and from all widely used database platforms, such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. The service supports homogeneous migrations such as Oracle to Oracle, as well as heterogeneous migrations between different database platforms, such as Oracle to PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL to MySQL, or even to Amazon Redshift and Amazon DynamoDB. The AWS Database Migration service can be used to perform one-time migrations, or can maintain continuous replication between databases without a customer having to install or configure any complex software. 

Company enters wastewater industry with merger,

State alleges the city is endangering public health.

Qualcomm has developed an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor which can operate under the glass of a mobile device avoiding the need for a mechanical home button. It also detects heartbeat and blood flow. The sensor can scan through OLED display stacks of up to 1200 µm, along with enrolling and matching, and can scan through up to …

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