AWS has published a service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon EMR , which provides availability guarantees for Amazon EMR.

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (Ireland) regions in addition to the US East (Virginia) region. You can now use Amazon Pinpoint to power your digital user engagement without having to transfer your customer data across regions.

This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations in certain regions of the EU, where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for many customers to use Amazon Pinpoint. It also creates a global infrastructure that helps to improve availability and redundancy while reducing latency.

With Amazon Pinpoint, you can engage your customers by sending them marketing campaigns and transactional messages across email, SMS, push notifications, and voice messages. Amazon Pinpoint’s built-in analytics suite helps you monitor and analyze the performance of your engagement efforts and develop a deeper understanding of your users demographics and behaviors. Additionally, the application analytics tools enable you to track the ways that your customers interact with your mobile and web applications.

To learn more about Amazon Pinpoint, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/ .

You can now assign AWS tags to your AWS Step Functions resources.

The LEDs Magazine Sapphire Awards program nears its annual finale, revealing the shortlist of 2019 Illumineer of the Year finalists.

Wireless controls operate autonomously to set LED light levels based on occupancy, and programmatic controls can set levels based on the needs of manufacturing line workers for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

Amazon EC2 now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with several new License Included (LI) AMIs, providing customers with an easy and flexible way to get up and running with the latest version of Windows Server. By running Windows Server 2019 on Amazon EC2, you can take advantage of the reliability, performance, and elasticity of AWS with the new capabilities of Windows Server.

Windows Server 2019 comes loaded with a variety of new features including smaller and more efficient Windows containers, support for Linux containers for application modernization and App Compatibility Feature on Demand. Click here for more on Windows Server 2019.

Windows Server 2019 AMIs are available in all public AWS regions and GovCloud. Customers can launch instances directly from the Amazon EC2 console and all instances running Windows Server 2019 AMIs are billed under the standard Windows pricing . For details about Windows Server 2019 on Amazon EC2, check out he FAQ and User Guide for Windows Instances.

AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads. Built as an enhancement to and replacement for the popular open source CfnCluster project, AWS ParallelCluster enables customers to quickly build an HPC cluster on AWS. It automatically sets up the required compute resources and shared file systems and offers a variety of batch scheduler options, including Sun Grid Engine (SGE), Torque, and Slurm.

AWS ParallelCluster reduces the operational overhead of cluster management and simplifies running HPC workloads on AWS. AWS ParallelCluster facilitates both quick-start proof of concepts (POCs) and production deployments. AWS ParallelCluster is available at no additional charge, and you pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications. AWS ParallelCluster is released via the Python Package Index (PyPI). AWS ParallelCluster’s source code is hosted under the Amazon Web Services repository on GitHub at https://github.com/aws/aws-parallelcluster

AWS ParallelCluster is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Learn how to launch an HPC cluster using AWS ParallelCluster here .
 

AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads. Built as an enhancement to and replacement for the popular open source CfnCluster project, AWS ParallelCluster enables customers to quickly build an HPC cluster on AWS. It automatically sets up the required compute resources and shared file systems and offers a variety of batch scheduler options, including AWS Batch, Sun Grid Engine (SGE), Torque, and Slurm.

AWS ParallelCluster reduces the operational overhead of cluster management and simplifies running HPC workloads on AWS. AWS ParallelCluster facilitates both quick-start proof of concepts (POCs) and production deployments. AWS ParallelCluster is available at no additional charge, and you pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications. AWS ParallelCluster is released via the Python Package Index (PyPI). AWS ParallelCluster’s source code is hosted under the Amazon Web Services repository on GitHub at https://github.com/aws/aws-parallelcluster

AWS ParallelCluster is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. Learn how to launch an HPC cluster using AWS ParallelCluster here .
 

This Quick Start automatically deploys Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 90 minutes. The deployment includes a hosted shared desktop and two sample published applications. 

Effective Jan 07, 2019, we are reducing the price for AWS Fargate by 20% for vCPU and 65% for memory across all regions where Fargate is currently available. Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. Read more about the pricing update on the Fargate pricing detail page or on our blog .