Ourania Georgoutsakou has taken over the LightingEurope secretary general position from Diederik de Stoppelaar. Meanwhile, the organization has pledged to continue to make available the work of the SSL-erate program as the three-year initiative ends.

We are pleased to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached version 1.4.34. You can now launch new clusters with Memcached 1.4.34, as well as upgrade existing ones to the new version. Compared to version 1.4.33 (previous version supported by ElastiCache for Memcached), this version includes bug fixes for improved metadata dump, logging and LRU crawler and miscellaneous enhancements. 

For a limited time, get 1000 device minutes as part of your one-time free trial on AWS Device Farm, four times more than the usual 250. Furthermore, get 3 months for the price of 1 on your first device slot purchase, giving you additional time to set-up, tune, integrate, and ramp your testing efforts into your release cycle at a lower introductory cost.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now provides built-in support for search templates using Mustache on all Elasticsearch 5 domains. Mustache is an open-source logic-less templating engine. You can now use Mustache to build search templates, which make it easy to dynamically generate your Elasticsearch queries. Search templates can help reduce errors and save time when constructing queries. Mustache is now enabled by default on all Amazon Elasticsearch Service 5.1 domains. 

You can now configure Amazon API Gateway to automatically perform basic request validation for your APIs. This reduces the burden of needing to check for required parameters in requests made to your API and instead allows you to focus on application-specific validation efforts. Previously, you needed to manually implement basic validation of input data in your API backends, making it more likely to introduce conflicts between your validation logic and API models. 

AWS Config now has a redesigned experience for discovering and setting up AWS-managed Config rules. You can now search managed rules by name, label, or description. This allows you to quickly filter rules based on services and rule descriptions. For example, you can type “EC2” in the search field to display all rules that apply to your Amazon EC2 resources. 

AWS Batch now supports customer provided AMIs. Previously, Managed Compute Environments launched instances of the ECS Optimized AMI. Now, when creating Managed Compute Environments, you can choose the specific AMI used by specifying the imageId. This makes it possible to change your EBS configuration, automatically mount EFS filesystems for shared storage among jobs, use local instance storage for scratch space, or configure drivers for GPU-accelerated jobs. 

Amazon QuickSight is now available in US East (Ohio). New users can sign up for QuickSight with US East (Ohio) as their home region, making SPICE capacity available in the region and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing QuickSight users can switch to US East (Ohio) via the region switcher in the User Interface to provision SPICE capacity, and to enable faster and cheaper connectivity to data sources in the region. With this launch, QuickSight is now available in US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) regions.

Regional partnership for proving program signed at provincial government ceremony.

 

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will cut prison utility costs 20% per year.