Thanks to YouGov for this one – the countries where most citizens think they live in the best country on the planet:

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The US Department of Energy has again awarded SSL-industry grants to small businesses focused on improving performance or streamlining manufacturing in the LED and OLED sectors.

CEO Guido van Tartwijk is driving Tridonic toward a global and connected future and the European stalwart in the SSL sector has opened a US office in Highland, NY.

In an interview with SIL co-chair Bob Steele, SoraaLaser’s Paul Rudy describes the future of SSL and applications that will be advanced by evolving laser light sources.

Four-emitter array in the Luxeon MX family of packaged LEDs can deliver 1200 lm for high efficiency in applications such as street lights and other outdoor and high-output-indoor SSL applications.

You can now use Docker 1.12 on your Amazon ECS container instances. Read our documentation  to learn how to use the latest Amazon ECS-optimized AMI.

You can now view code changes made between a commit and a parent commit from the AWS CodeCommit console. The change includes a list of files modified between commits, and a color-coded rendering of the specific code changes made to each file. You can view your code changes side by side (Split view) or inline (Unified view). CodeCommit also lets you hide or show whitespace changes.

AWS CloudTrail now enables you to receive alerts if you misconfigure any resources required to deliver CloudTrail logs. Using Personal Health Dashboard, you get a view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources, and the CloudTrail integration adds proactive notifications of any misconfigurations that affect your CloudTrail service. These AWS Personal Health Dashboard notifications provide you with relevant and timely information to help you diagnose the issues and take immediate action to restore your CloudTrail functionality. For example, you will now be able to receive alerts of misconfigured Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket policies that prevent delivery of your CloudTrail logs and troubleshoot SNS notification failures due to SNS topic policy misconfigurations. Please visit AWS Personal Health Dashboard and AWS CloudTrail product pages for more information.

For more information on CloudTrail:

• Product Page
• Documentation
• Release Notes

Amazon ECS now supports a state for container instances that can be used to drain a container instance in preparation for maintenance or cluster scale down. The draining state prevents new tasks from being started on the container instance and notifies the service scheduler to move tasks that are running on the instance to other instances in the cluster.

AEGEA, one of Brazil’s leading water and sanitation companies, is expanding deployment of the TaKaDu system to a third concessionaire…