Amazon Web Services announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud Region, its second GovCloud infrastructure region in the United States. With the launch of the AWS GovCloud Region, AWS now provides 57 Availability Zones across 19 geographic regions globally with another 12 Availability Zones and four regions coming online in Bahrain, Hong Kong SAR, South Africa, and Sweden between the end of 2018 and the first half of 2020. The AWS GovCloud Regions meet the stringent requirements of the public sector and highly regulated industries, including being operated on US soil by US citizens, and are accessible only to vetted US entities and root account holders who must confirm they are US persons. AWS customers can now enjoy the second AWS GovCloud Region in the eastern part of the United States for reduced latency, added redundancy, data durability, resiliency, greater disaster recovery capability, and the ability to scale across multiple regions. United States government agencies, and the IT contractors that serve them, were early adopters of AWS GovCloud while US public sector and commercial customers in highly regulated industries such as education, financial services, and healthcare also use AWS GovCloud. Government agencies like the US Department of Treasury, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and many others use AWS GovCloud for their applications and workloads. Companies like Adobe, Blackboard, Booz Allen Hamilton, Drakontas, Druva, ECS, Enlighten IT, General Dynamics Information Technology, GE, Infor, JHC Technology, Leidos, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Novetta, PowerDMS, Raytheon, REAN Cloud, a Hitachi Vantara company, SAP NS2, and Smartronix are among AWS GovCloud customers that rely on the compliance standards and security that only AWS GovCloud can provide.

Kirby announced the signing of an agreement to acquire substantially all of CGBM 100, LLC's inland marine tank barge fleet for an undisclosed amount. Under the terms of the agreement, Kirby will acquire 27 of CGBM's 10,000 barrel inland marine tank barges which have a total capacity of approximately 270,000 barrels. The closing of the acquisition is expected to occur in the 2018 fourth quarter and is subject to customary closing conditions.

The board of OMA approved today the appointment of Mr. Ricardo Duenas as Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective as of this date. Ricardo Duenas has a solid experience in the airport and infrastructure sectors, he has an economics degree from Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, and holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. He was Chief Financial Officer of Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de Mexico from 2015 through 2018 and worked as an advisor in infrastructure projects at the Ministry of Communications and Transportation between 2012 and 2015.

This is the highest level of holdings since August 27th and the first increase since November 1st.

Q3 Average MAUs reached 99.0M, representing an increase of 14.6% from 86.3M last year. Q3 total number of paying users reached 4.2M, representing an increase of 37.8% from last year.