This feature makes it easy for developers to add user sign-up, sign-in, and enhanced security functionality to their mobile and web apps. With User Pools, you get a simple, fully managed service for creating and maintaining your own user directory that can scale to hundreds of millions of users. You benefit from the security and privacy best practices of AWS, and retain full control of your user data. This feature is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and EU (Ireland).

Today, we are announcing DNS resolution support for a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering connection. You can now enable resolution of public DNS hostnames to private IP addresses when queried from the peered VPC. This functionality is also supported cross-account so the two VPCs can be in different accounts. This feature simplifies DNS setup for VPC peering connections.

You can now view the commit history of an AWS CodeCommit repository from the CodeCommit console. This helps you more easily understand the changes made to a repository, who made the changes, and when the changes were made.

Join Tom Freyberg from WWi magazine for a news round-up of the global desalination industry.

Ever wondered what it’s like inside the world’s largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination facility? Well now you can find out…

Jeff Mosher has joined the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation (WE&RF) as chief research and strategic planning officer to lead its integrated water research programme.

NACWA’s Peak Performance Awards Program recognizes wastewater facilities for excellence in wastewater treatment as measured by their compliance with NPDES permit requirements.

The company expanded its network and capabilities when it recently acquired Houston-based Monarch Separators.

Water Planet has appointed Thomas Wilson as senior vice president of business development, to help drive the company’s growth strategy.

Q2 wafer area shipments reached their highest quarterly recorded level at 2,706 million square inches, up 6.6% increase from 2,538 million square inches in Q1. “Silicon shipment growth continues to gain momentum resulting in a quarterly volume shipment high,” says Dr. Volker Braetsch, chairman SEMI SMG and svp at Siltronic, “although year-to-date shipments are effectively …

Wafer shipments at record level