Amazon Redshift Workload Management (WLM) enables you to flexibly manage priorities within workloads so that short, fast-running queries don’t get stuck in queues behind long-running queries. Today we are announcing an improved WLM experience in the Amazon Redshift console. The new features include in-line validations, simpler error messages, and more so you can easily create WLM queues and manage workloads . For more information, see Workload Management in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.

In December 2016 we added support for Outbound Network Access from Amazon RDS for Oracle instances. This change enabled your database to communicate with external servers and send emails using the utl_smtp package. Name resolution during outbound network access always used Amazon’s DNS service in your VPC. Today we are adding support for custom DNS servers.

This new Quick Start automatically deploys an Alfresco One cluster on the AWS Cloud. The Quick Start was created by AWS in partnership with Alfresco Software, to integrate solutions and services from both companies.

Our latest Quick Start automatically deploys Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) version 7.5.5 for Cloud Services on the AWS Cloud. The Quick Start was created by AWS in partnership with Symantec, to integrate solutions and services from both companies.

AWS CloudTrail, a service that continuously monitors and logs your AWS account activity, now allows AWS Managed Services, AWS CodeCommit, and Amazon GameLift to be viewed in the API Activity History. These services were previously available in the S3 bucket log files and are now visible using the CloudTrail console API Activity History page. This allows you to search for create, modify, and delete event activity from these services using a set of predefined filters. For read-only API activity, go to your Amazon S3 bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Please visit AWS CloudTrail product page for more information.

 

For more information on CloudTrail:

• Product Page
• Supported Services
• Documentation
• Release Notes

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), known as AWS Microsoft AD, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region.

You can now use upgraded versions of Apache Spark (2.1.0), Apache Hive (2.1.1), Apache Flink (1.1.4), Hue (3.11.0), and Apache Oozie (4.3.0) on Amazon EMR release 5.3.0. Apache Spark 2.1.0 resolves over 1,200 tickets, including better SparkR support for machine learning algorithms, improvements to Structured Streaming, and performance enhancements for Spark SQL. Hue 3.11.0 adds improvements to the SQL editor with a new autocompleter and a more advanced results grid. Flink 1.1.4 , Hive 2.1.1 , and Oozie 4.3.0 all have various improvements and bug fixes.

Amazon Cloud Directory enables you to build flexible cloud-native directories for organizing hierarchies of data along multiple dimensions. With Cloud Directory, you can create directories for a variety of use cases, such as organizational charts, course catalogs, and device registries. While traditional directory solutions, such as Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) and other LDAP-based directories, limit you to a single hierarchy, Cloud Directory offers you the flexibility to create directories with hierarchies that span multiple dimensions. For example, you can create an organizational chart that can be navigated through separate hierarchies for reporting structure, location, and cost center.

GE Water & Process Technologies will supply advanced wastewater treatment technology to Luo Fang Wastewater Treatment Plant, Shenzhen City, making it China’s largest membrane bioreactor (MBR) facility.

Pressure energy specialist Energy Recovery has signed a master agreement with Germany-based pumps manufacturer Duchting Pumpen to provide a new combined solution for desalination.