This Quick Start deploys WordPress High Availability by Bitnami, which includes WordPress with Amazon Aurora, in a highly available environment on AWS in about 40 minutes.

You can now specify three new docker flags as parameters in your Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Task definition. These flags are sysctl (system controls), interactive, and tty (Pseudo terminal). You can also specify interactive and tty flags as parameters in your AWS Fargate Task definitions.

The sysctl parameter allows you to have fine grained control on your application’s namespaced kernel parameters. Therefore, you can optimize the kernel’s behavior to your application’s needs without having to configure those parameters at the host-level or worry about impacting other applications.

The interactive and tty parameters, allow you to deploy containerized applications that require stdin or a tty to be allocated. This allows you to run some legacy applications that require these flags if you wanted to containerize them.

This feature is currently supported with EC2 launch-type. For more information about using Docker parameters in task definitions, visit the Amazon ECS documentation .

To view where Amazon ECS is available, please visit our region table .  

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch Events to view, search, download, archive, analyze, and respond to successful logins to your Amazon WorkSpaces. With this release, you can monitor client WAN IP addresses, Operating System, WorkSpaces ID, and Directory ID information for users’ logins to WorkSpaces.  

Fed up with videos that are thin on facts? And interested in rockets? Or, not interested in rockets, but just want to see a video that treats a lay-viewer as a grown-up?) Then you might want to watch the YouTube video ‘Why rocket exhausts look the way they do’ by someone called Scott Manley. Thanks to Wise Steve …

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You can now share your AppStream 2.0 application images with other AWS accounts in the same AWS Region. This lets you maintain one version of your application image and securely provide other AWS accounts access to it. For example, software vendors can now create an image with their applications installed, and share it with their customers as part of a SaaS or trial offering while maintaining control of the source image. Or, enterprises can configure images in their test account and then share them with their production account. You control whether the recipient can use your image with their fleets, to create new images, or both, and you can revoke access at any time.

To get started select Images, Image Registry from the AppStream 2.0 console. Select the image you wish to share and select Actions, Share. Choose Add account, and enter the AWS account ID you wish to share your image with. To stop sharing an image, select the Permissions tab, then choose Edit for the AWS account ID you wish to remove permissions from. To learn more about image sharing, see Administer Your Amazon AppStream 2.0 Images .  

You can share images for your users at no additional charge in all AWS Regions where AppStream 2.0 is offered. AppStream 2.0 offers pay-as-you-go pricing. Please see Amazon AppStream 2.0 Pricing for more information, and try our sample applications.

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility has been updated to version 1.3 in support of Release 9.6.9 of the PostgreSQL database . This release includes reliability and performance improvements, along with a number of bug fixes.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce Zhiyu, the first Mandarin Chinese voice. Zhiyu is a clear, bright, and natural-sounding female voice.

I’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s AIY kits (“Artifical-Intelligence yourself”) since they launched last year with Raspberry-Pi based designs, and here’s another: the AIY Edge TPU Boards.

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RS Components has unveiled a range of heavy-duty industrial connectors – particularly for robotics and machinery, and in sound and lighting applications. Called RS Pro the range includes rugged housings and inserts, that includes screw terminals and cage-clamp terminals with UL approvals – including UL90V0 flammability. Inserts come in contact-number sizes including 3 PE, 4 …

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Photonic sensors are increasingly being yet layout design is typically slow.

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