AWS is pleased to release a major update to the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) Quick Start. This release supports the deployment of up to four RD Gateway instances in an Auto Scaling group on the AWS Cloud. The update also includes portability enhancements to make it easier to customize the Quick Start for your specific scenario. 

Starting today, Amazon QuickSight customers can leverage Amazon Redshift Spectrum to visualize and analyze vast amounts of unstructured data in their Amazon S3 “data lake” – without having to load or transform any data. In addition, customers can now visualize combined data sets that include frequently accessed data stored in Amazon Redshift and bulk data sets stored cost-effectively in Amazon S3 using the same SQL syntax of Amazon Redshift. 

You can now use the SELECT INTO OUTFILE S3 SQL statement to query data from an Amazon Aurora database cluster and save it directly into text files in an Amazon S3 bucket. This means you no longer need the two-step process of bringing the data to the SQL client and then copying it from the client to Amazon S3. It’s an easy way to export data selectively to Amazon Redshift or any other application.

AWS Certificate Manager is a new service in the AWS GovCloud (US) region that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services. SSL/TLS certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet. AWS Certificate Manager removes the time-consuming manual process of purchasing, uploading, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates. With AWS Certificate Manager, you can quickly request a certificate, deploy it on AWS resources such as Elastic Load Balancers or Amazon CloudFront distributions, and let AWS Certificate Manager handle certificate renewals. SSL/TLS certificates provisioned through AWS Certificate Manager are free. You pay only for the AWS resources you create to run your application.

Amazon WorkSpaces now offers a Free Tier for first time Workspaces customers, designed to allow hands-on experience of the service at no cost. The Free Tier offer provides two Standard bundle WorkSpaces for up to 40 hours of combined use per month, for two calendar months, from the time you create your first WorkSpace.

The company’s latest Consumer Confidence Report indicated water quality surpassed regulatory standards.

The city of Franklin will increase its wastewater discharge into the Harpeth River.

Skeleton Technologies, the Estonian ultracapacitor manufacturer, has developed an energy storage system for adding power reliability in manufacturing plants, data centres, and covering starting and bridging power for diesel generators. Called SkelGrid, the system is based on the firm’s curved graphene ultracapacitor technology, which is designed to provide high power and energy density. Taavi Madiberk, CEO …

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ams has introduced a power management IC for LED-based lamps and luminaires which uses closed-loop sensing to maintain more accurate correlated colour temperature (CCT) and lumen output. Following the AS7221 smart lighting manager introduced earlier this year, this new device, the AS7220, combines a precise calibrated-for-life colour sensor with an intelligent Cognitive Lighting Engine for standalone …

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Loads of stuff about poor old Tiger. Except that he’s not really poor at all – he made $45.5 million last year. A bit less than his peak $100 million a year, but not too shabby. What’s surprising is that Tiger hasn’t won a major for nine years or any tournament for four years. Yet …

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