Amazon Lightsail is now available in four Asia Pacific Regions – Tokyo, Mumbai, Singapore, and Sydney.
Use Amazon Cloud Directory Typed Links to Create and Search Relationships across Hierarchies
Starting today, you can create and search relationships across hierarchies in Amazon Cloud Directory by using typed links. With typed links, you can build directories that can be searched across hierarchies more efficiently by filtering your queries based on relationship type. Typed links also enable you to model different types of relationships between objects in different hierarchies and to use relationships to prevent objects from being deleted accidentally.
Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Locations in Atlanta, Columbus and Toronto
AWS Direct Connect now has three new locations in the Digital Realty ATL1 and ATL2, Atlanta facility, Cologix COL2 Columbus, OH facility, and Allied 250 Front St W, Toronto, Canada facility supporting the US East (Virginia), US East (Ohio) and Canada (Central) AWS Regions respectively. Customers in these cities can now establish a dedicated network connection from their premise to AWS.
AWS Batch Available in US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland)
AWS Batch is now available in the US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) regions.
EPA awards $1.15M to South Carolina to protect water quality
Agency partners with the state to help ensure healthy air and water resources.
SWCC to shape up operations as privatisation begins
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has hired DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) to brush up operational performance across the organisation in preparation for privatisation.
Western Cape looks to desal, as Eksom issues RFP
Western Cape, South Africa, is to expedite an environmental impact assessment for a mobile desalination plant, as the area is officially declared a disaster zone due to water scarcity.
Suez and Brazil’s Ceara state sign MOU on water reuse
Suez and Compendia de Agua e Esgoto do Ceara, the water utility of Ceara state, in northeastern Brazil, have signed a memorandum of understanding on water reuse, reports Diario de Nordeste.
EPA postpones Steam Electric Power Plant Effluent Guidelines Rule
Agency proposes to postpone the compliance dates for the more stringent best available technology economically achievable requirements in the 2015 rule for several waste streams.
California team develop new system for membrane distillation
Engineers at University of California, Riverside have developed a new carbon nanotube-based heating element that improves the recovery of water from brine in membrane distillation.