While the US makes strides, concerns linger in EMEA over interoperability and battery life, an Osram business developer says.

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now supports the ability to run tasks on a regular, scheduled basis and in response to CloudWatch Events. This makes it easier to launch and stop container services that you need to run only at certain times.

The AWS IoT Button for developers is now available in Europe. Starting today, the button can be ordered in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain from the local Amazon retail websites. The AWS IoT Button is a Wi-Fi device that can be used to test, pilot and deploy innovative ideas without the need for development of additional hardware, firmware or networking protocols. A wide variety of use cases can be addressed using the AWS IoT button including home automation, ordering, feedback, notification, integration with third party APIs and many others.

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is thrilled to announce the launch of the new AWS Storage Competency for Consulting Partners. The AWS Competency Program is designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas and categories.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for Amazon RDS for SQL Server. With this release, features such as Partitioning, Compression and Always Encrypted, which were previously available only in the Enterprise Edition, are available across all SQL Server Editions offered in Amazon RDS.

Starting now, AWS Greengrass is available to all customers. AWS Greengrass is software that lets you run local compute, messaging, data and state synchronization for connected devices in a secure way. With AWS Greengrass, connected devices can run AWS Lambda functions, keep device data in sync, and communicate with other devices securely – even when not connected to the Internet. Using AWS Lambda, Greengrass ensures your IoT devices can respond quickly to local events, operate with intermittent connections, and minimize the cost of transmitting IoT data to the cloud.

AWS Marketplace, which lists over 3,800 software listings from popular software vendors across 35 product categories, has announced that SaaS sellers can now log metering records using AWS CloudTrail in all regions. CloudTrail is a service that enables operational auditing of your AWS account along with governance, compliance, and risk auditing. AWS Marketplace now delivers all SaaS Marketplace Metering Service metering records to CloudTrail to help sellers with their operational auditing. Sellers can use CloudTrail logs to help test new SaaS applications, while onboarding to AWS Marketplace, or to confirm that records have been received by the Marketplace Metering Service.

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is thrilled to announce the launch of the new Security Competency for Consulting Partners. The AWS Competency Program is designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas and categories.

FCC Aqualia has priced two bond issues, whose proceeds will be used in part to pay down FCC Group debt, which currently stands at €5,063 million.

Authorities in Mangaluru, a port city on the Arabian Sea, on India’s west coast, are proposing a 200,000 m3/d desalination plant, reports Daiji World.