This new Quick Start helps you deploy Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition on the AWS Cloud.  

Starting today, you can launch Amazon EC2 instances with encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) boot volumes in AWS GovCloud (US). This feature simplifies security compliance processes by now providing encryption for both EBS data and boot volumes using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). It can also help simplify your auditing processes because you now have the ability to ensure all data on EBS is encrypted at rest and in transit. This feature is supported with all EBS volume types.

These two new Quick Starts automatically deploy two popular software development tools from Atlassian, Bitbucket Data Center and JIRA Software Data Center, on the AWS Cloud. The Quick Starts were created by AWS solutions architects in partnership with Atlassian, to integrate solutions and services from both companies.

CloudFormation has updated support for Amazon ElastiCache resources.

We are excited to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now supports Redis Cluster with Redis 3.2.4. Redis Cluster allows customers to run Redis workloads with up to 3.5TiB of in-memory capacity, supporting up to 20M reads per second and up to 4.5M writes per second. It also delivers up to 4x faster failover times, and includes Amazon’s enhancements to the Redis engine running on ElastiCache for improved stability and robustness, while maintaining compatibility with open-source Redis. Amazon’s fully managed Redis service is bolstered with updated AWS CloudFormation support, an easier-to-use console experience, and Redis Cluster level backup and restore.

De Nora Water Technologies has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2016 Best Practices Award for water disinfection products in the Asia Pacific region…

Central Contra Costa Sanitary District serves nearly a half million residents and 3,000 businesses in 13 cities and towns covering 145 square miles.

The company was one of about 100 U.S. businesses and organizations on the Trade Winds-Latin America trade mission in September, organized by the U.S. Commercial Service and sponsored by the Alabama Department of Commerce.

Drought-hit Cuba is to build five desalination plants, according to reports in several Vietnamese news outlets, including vietnambreakingnews.com.

Italian water treatment firm Culligan has introduced a new skid-mounted seawater RO desalination solution, SW Evo, and a containerised membrane bio reactor system.