M5 Instances are the next generation of the Amazon EC2 General Purpose compute instances, powered by 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon Platinum 8175 processors (formerly codenamed Skylake), and featuring Intel’s newest vector processing instruction set, Advanced Vector Extension 512 (AVX-512). M5 instances are based on the Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. They deliver up to 14% improvement in price/performance compared to M4 instances with the updated processor. The addition of new AVX-512 delivers 2x the performance per core for vector and floating point intensive workloads such as image and video processing, data compression, cryptography, and high-performance web serving.

Amazon EC2 Spot can now hibernate Amazon EBS-backed instances in the event of an interruption. Spot can fulfill your request by resuming instances from a hibernated state when capacity is available. Hibernate is just like closing and opening your laptop lid, with your application starting up right where it left off.

Amazon EC2 simplified the Amazon EC2 Spot instance pricing by moving to a model that delivers low, predictable prices that adjust gradually based on long-term trends in supply and demand. You will continue to save up to 90% off the On-Demand instance price and you will continue to pay the Spot price that’s in effect at the beginning of each instance-hour for your running instance.

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that provides you with an accurate and easy way to continuously monitor and protect your AWS accounts and the applications and services running within them. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, GuardDuty immediately begins analyzing billions of events from AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and other AWS data sources.

Records show heavy rainfall caused drainage ditches to overflow during the storm.

The agency penned a letter asking for Congress to continue federal investment in water infrastructure, geographic watershed and state grant programs, and others.

Revenue and expenses are both projected to increase at the Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority next year. Of that, $27.5 million comprises operation and maintenance expenses, up $600,000 from this year, or 2.2 percent. It has been a goal of Chief Executive Officer Greg Ramon’s to keep each year’s operating budget within 2 percent of the previous year’s since he arrived at the utility, formerly known as Little Rock Wastewater, in 2014.

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