Amazon EC2 Spot now supports encryption of EBS volumes. Ec2 Spot will create encrypted EBS volumes at launch so you no longer have to boot from an encrypted snapshot or an encrypted AMI. To use this new feature, specify “Encrypted: true” as the encryption behavior within block device mappings, when submitting a Spot request. When you specify “Encryption:true”, Spot will encrypt the EBS volume at the launch time and create encrypted volumes. If you already have an encrypted EBS volume in use then specify the snapshot ID without the “Encrypted” flag and Spot will continue to create encrypted volumes in your existing encrypted EBS snapshot. 

AWS Marketplace customers can now subscribe to and purchase software solutions from popular software vendors, which contain multiple Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) from the same vendor. In addition, software vendors may now create listings that combine multiple server roles or product offerings into new predefined solutions that are specifically designed to improve security, availability or performance. Customers can then browse these new solution listings and subscribe to them with a single click. 

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Eaton will continue groundwater remediation and monitoring for on-site contamination.

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