It’s still early days at the E.Leclerc hypermarket, but the Zumtobel system is off to a good start. Not everyone’s interested, though.

New CEO Jacob Tarn has already put his mark on the organization with a focus on global presence and development of a supply chain and product-development approach that will serve the broad SSL market.

Starting today, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics supports real-time hotspot detection, which allows you to automatically detect regions of high density in your data, like a high concentration of vehicles on a highway indicating traffic bottlenecks, surging rideshare requests in a certain area indicating a popular event, or higher sales of products within a category indicating feature similarity. Detecting hotspots like these can help you gain actionable insights quickly and react to changing customer and business needs promptly.  

AWS Training and Certification has teamed up with edX and Udemy to give learners more flexibility for building AWS Cloud skills online.

Starting today, Lambda@Edge enables you to further customize the delivery of content stored in an Amazon S3 bucket, by allowing you to access additional whitelisted headers, including custom headers, within origin-facing events. For example, you can configure Amazon CloudFront to cache and forward a country header to your S3 origin, and then use Lambda@Edge to dynamically redirect viewers to country-specific versions of your website, based on the viewer’s location. CloudFront also caches the responses to further improve the performance on subsequent requests to your website.

Until now, you could configure Amazon CloudFront with an S3 origin to forward and to cache objects based on only three headers: Access-Control-Request-Headers, Access-Control-Request-Method, and Origin. This limited the ability to leverage the full potential of Lambda@Edge, as you could only use cookies and query strings when you wanted to customize the delivery of content stored in S3 buckets. However, with this launch, you can now configure CloudFront with an S3 origin to cache and forward several additional headers, such as CloudFront-Viewer-Country or CloudFront-Is-*-Viewer, and then use Lambda@Edge to customize content based on these headers and deliver at low latencies to your viewers. To see all the supported headers, click here .

There is no additional fee for the new capability. To learn more about Lambda@Edge, visit the product page . For more information on how to use this new feature, see the following resources:

• Examples showing personalization of content based on viewer location and viewer device type .
• Example showing content-based dynamic origin selection using headers .  

AWS Config now supports a new API to fetch the current configuration information for one or more resources that are being recorded in your AWS account. Previously you could retrieve the current resource configuration along with the historical configuration information for one resource at a time. Now you can obtain your current resource configurations for multiple resources using the new API . You can still obtain the historical information for individual resource configurations using the existing API .

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Docker and EC2 instance types – P3, X1, C5, M5 in additional regions and Ruby 2.5 in all regions.

Starting today, you can access your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations programmatically via the AWS Cost Explorer API. RI purchase recommendations are calculated based on your past usage and indicate opportunities for potential cost savings. To tailor your recommendations, you can adjust the RI parameters (e.g., return only recommendations for partial upfront convertible RIs with a one-year term) and the historical time period of usage over which your recommendations are calculated (e.g., last 60 days). Once you have identified the optimal mix of RIs to address your business needs, you can access to the Amazon EC2 RI Purchase Console or use the AWS SDK to take action on your insights and purchase Reserved Instances.

Philips Lighting is has changed its name  to Signify. ‘The choice of our new company name originates from the fact that light becomes an intelligent language, which connects and conveys meaning,’ says Philips/Signify. The company will continue to use the Philips brand. The new company name satisfies the company’s contractual requirements under the Company Name …

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The Big Three DRAM producers will be putting 16Gbit parts into mass production in H2, says DRAMeXchange. The Koreans will be moving to 16Gbit die in Q3 which will deliver 64GB modules. Although China’s demand for servers will grow 20% in Q2, total server demand will grow in dingle digits, says DRAMeXchange. Q1 server DRAM …

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