Amazon QuickSight is now generally available for all customers. At 1/10th the cost of traditional BI solutions, QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy for you to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. You can upload Excel files, connect to databases like SQLServer, MySQL or PostgreSQL, in the cloud or on-premises; access third-party applications, like Salesforce; or analyze data from other AWS services such as Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3. QuickSight’s power stems from its Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory, Calculation, Engine (SPICE), which delivers fast and responsive query performance and scales to hundreds of thousands of users. Once you’ve built your analysis or dashboard, you can access QuickSight via your web browser or your iOS mobile app and securely share your insights with colleagues and stakeholders.  

Amazon Kinesis Streams enables you to capture, store, and analyze terabytes of data per hour from clickstreams, financial transactions, social media feeds, and more. Starting today, you can use the new UpdateShardCount  feature in the AWS Management console or AWS CLI to to scale your streams up and down automatically to match your data volume and processing needs in real time. For example, you can call UpdateShardCount from an AWS Lambda function to automatically scale the shard capacity in your stream in response to an Amazon CloudWatch alarm or Amazon CloudWatch metric. For more information, see UpdateShardCount in the Amazon Kinesis Streams Service API Reference.

But when a beverage company cannot access enough water to make its product, such as during drought conditions, serious problems occur.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for November 14, 2016.

The comapany will begin purchasing up to 500 million gallons of recycled water per year from the City of Wichita for use in manufacturing aerospace structures.

Industrial cybersecurity startup protects SCADA systems by detecting and immediately correcting falsified readings for unprecedented operational resilience.

New study published at UN climate conference reveals companies are not moving fast enough to address water risk.

Report designed to help water utilities complete and update source water characterizations and implement source water protection practices.

ClearFlo MBC^x delivers greater than 90% clean water recovery and brine concentrations reaching 300,000 mg/l.

This month’s patent features the challenge of transaction checking and countering ‘man-in-the-middle’ and ‘man-in-the-browser’ attacks

Read full article: Electronics patent of the month: Transaction checking