We are excited to announce the release of Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.7, which includes 403 new improvements, fixes, and features to Amazon’s free, cross-platform 3D engine that enables you to create the highest-quality games, connect games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans with Twitch.

We are pleased to announce that Application Load Balancers now support native Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). With this ability, clients can now connect to the Application Load Balancer in a dual-stack mode via either IPv4 or IPv6.

You can now use blue/green deployments with AWS CodeDeploy. Now, you can choose from two deployment types when using CodeDeploy. The existing deployment type supported by CodeDeploy is now known as an in-place deployment .

The retrofit of 10 new pumps will provide the plant with a longer operating life and help reduce overall maintenance costs at the facility.

 

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for January 23, 2017.

Poseidon Water’s proposed mega desalination plant at Huntington Beach, California, has been named as one of US President Trump’s top 50 priority infrastructure projects in a document purportedly leaked by Trump’s transition team.

Mining giant BHP Billiton has reported the “mechanical completion” of Escondida Water Supply project, Chile, with the first water expected in March 2017.

The parties’ settlement agreement maps out a long-term plan to gather essential data and, in cooperation with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA), address any phosphorus related adverse conditions in the region’s waterways.

Gradiant Energy Services (GES) has appointed Danny Jimenez as chief executive with a brief to oversee strategic direction and growth, including expanding its offer to oil and gas operators.

Gartner forecasts 7.2 % semi growth this year taking the industry to $364.1 billion. “The worst is now over with a positive outlook emerging for 2017 driven by inventory replenishment and increasing ASPs)p in select markets, particularly commodity memory and application-specific standard products,” says Gartner vo,Ganesh Ramamoorthy,  “the turnaround that started at the end of …

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