AWS Lambda’s default concurrent execution limit has been raised to 1,000 concurrent function executions. Lambda uses a default safety throttle for the number of concurrent executions across all functions in a given region per account. Concurrent executions refers to the number of executions of your function code that are happening at any given time.

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support minor versions 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11 and 9.3.16. Highlights include fixes to prevent data corruption issues in index builds and in certain write-ahead-log replay situations, support for the pg_hint_plan, log_fdw and pg_freespacemap extensions, and many other bug fixes and improvements.

Today, we added two new connectors for Presto and Apache Spark. Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against datasets ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Like Presto, Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed processing system commonly used for big data workloads. Amazon QuickSight customers can now connect to Presto and Spark (with LDAP authentication enabled) running on Amazon EMR 5.5.0 or above, or self-hosted clusters on EC2 and analyze their big data at interactive speed. Customers can choose to directly query against the Presto and Spark engines, or ingest their data into SPICE for faster visualization.

Amazon Cognito is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region.

In part two of its pilot project digital diary, Dow Water & Process Solutions addresses the challenge of three very different petrochemical plant feed waters.

Israel’s national water company Mekorot is restructuring and may sell off parts of its portfolio after running into financial difficulty, reports Israeli business publication, TheMarker.

Battelle has been conducting the water quality monitoring of the Bay for MWRA since 1990.

 

Sudan’s Ministry of Finance has committed 72.4 million SGD ($10.9 million) for water projects in the state of Red Sea, including four temporary desalination stations, reports Sudan Vision.

More Than $158,000 will support public drinking water systems in the state.

 

If memory market prices continue to hold through 2Q17 and the balance of this year, Samsung could charge into the top spot and displace Intel

Read full article: Samsung could overtake Intel to be semi No.1 in Q2