NBN Co has reconfirmed what's been known ever since the 2013 election: fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) builds are more-or-less frozen, and all new builds will be under its multi-technology model.…
Sony Pictures has reportedly begun investigating possible hacking links to North Korea, following a savage attack on its network earlier this week.…
Oracle's website tumbled from the interwebs in the last hour but the cause of the outage remains unclear.…
Mobile giant Vodafone has reportedly been mulling over a number of takeover plans, including the possibility of scooping up cable company Liberty Global – Virgin Media's owner.…
An unknown number of TalkTalk customers have been locked out of their email accounts for days, but the budget ISP warned this morning that its service was still struggling to return to normal.…
If you're a member of the backroom staff at a big company, you probably spend a lot of time sitting at a desk bashing at a computer. Indeed, in my day job as IT ops manager for a telco I'm delighted to have probably the only truly comfy chair on the premises and my huge desktop screen for the Excel-wrangling that forms part of what I do.…
The sceptred isle of old Blighty is in flames today as greed crazed mobs, both online and in the real world, stormed bricks'n'mortar shops and etail websites alike leaving blood on the linoleum and smoke belching from overstressed data centres – hosting Currys, Tesco and other box-flingers – up and down the land.…
Venerable hosting firm Webfusion UK is experiencing a crippling outage which has hobbled web services across the country.…
Ever wondered who tried to steal your meerkat? Well, worry no longer thanks to the London Zoo, Google and CCTV biz KineSense.…
The Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) has waded into the debate over the critical IANA contract with a formal statement and position paper. Rather than making a splash, however, the result is somewhat of a soggy mess.…
Don't start your Black Friday online shopping spree just yet: Amazon Web Services' CloudFront content delivery network has wobbled over the last few hours and the perennially-loss-making retailer, and customers of its cloud computing services, have reportedly been hard to access.…
Australia's Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday labelled those who oppose use of the public cloud “box-huggers” and suggested such behaviour is bad because it ties organisations to an outmoded and expensive way of doing IT.…
UK readers, what you've always suspected has been proven true – even the weakest mobile networks abroad perform better than our second-best, according to German mobile network survey company P3, which has published solid numbers on mobile network coverage.…
BT's patent spat with US company ASSIA will start to be noticed by customers, with the carrier reportedly shutting down boxes that provide rate adaptation after it lost a crucial round of legal action.…
Austrian Facebook-botherer-in-chief Max Schrems says the US social network appears to be saying its users are either too young or too insane to file a class-action lawsuit against it.…
Google has turned on its namesake top-level domain (TLD) with the creation of 'nic.google' representing the internet giant's entry into the domain name market.…
NBN Co has followed through on its promise to cut the price of its services with a 12.5 per cent snip off the price of its connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) as of 1 February 2015.…
The European Commission was perfectly entitled to conduct dawn raids against Orange, according to the EU General Court.…
An anonymous South Londoner has been named as the winner of a pseudo lottery designed to (hopefully) make one Reddit user a millionaire.…
Former EU digital tzar Neelie Kroes’ net neutrality plans for the Continent may be chucked out by national governments.…
T-Mobile USA has agreed to stop twiddling with subscribers' mobile broadband speeds to hide the fact they were being capped.…
Plans for a new internet governance body are struggling to get off the ground after blowback from the internet community itself.…
Telstra has again demonstrated technology that will let lucky LTE users consume the entire 15 GB of its largest consumer post-paid broadband plan in less than 5 minutes.…
US watchdog the FCC has raised at least US$36bn by auctioning off a load of radio frequencies for improving wireless broadband. That's more than three times the $10.1bn it expected.…
Blighty's broadband providers are once again at Ofcom to do something about the alleged monopoly they believe former national telco BT maintains in the business broadband sector.…
BT could be the new owner of Blighty mobe network O2 if talks with Spanish parent Telefonica go well.…
Our own Tim Phillips is joined by Paul Gregory, from QA, to deliver a live hands-on session on Azure Active Directory tomorrow at 11am. It’s your chance to learn from the experts and get answers to any questions you might have.…
Ericsson and IBM have announced a collaboration to jointly research phased-array antenna designs for 5G, which might prove interesting as nothing has yet been agreed on what 5G might involve.…
About 10 years ago, Faultline wrote a report on the economics of quad play. We hardly sold any (about 20), and the reason was, one of our resellers told us, was that “quad play” was old hat.…
Last July, Dimension Data's Australian cloud went down for over 24 hours. Now the company says its assessment of the incident found those who suffered the most had themselves to blame, to a degree.…
An estimated 86 per cent of WordPress websites harbour a dangerous cross-site scripting (XSS) hole in the popular comment system plugin, in what researcher Jouk Pynnonen calls the most serious flaw in five years. The bug could provide a pathway for attacking visitors' machines.…
Dimension Data has announced it will soon offer a government-only cloud hosted in Australia's capital city, Canberra.…
IP address-matching powers for police and spooks are to be pushed through Parliament with the blessing of the junior member of the UK's Coalition government, after the Liberal Democrats claimed today that the Snoopers' Charter was "dead".…
Back in the old days providing your employees with corporate computer equipment was an expensive business. When I was 19 I was the university holidays PC guy in an office full of RPG III developers; the fact that they thought their System/38 with its 5250 terminals was a pretty neat piece of kit was the only reason they didn't envy the spanking new IBM PS/2 Model 80 under my desk.…
Britain's non-emergency telephone numbers for the police (101) and the NHS (111) have collapsed nationwide.…
Yahoo! has apologised to customers who have been unable to access their email accounts since Thursday, after an underwater fibre cable was mistakenly severed.…
Yahoo! has apologised to customers who have been unable to access their email accounts since Thursday, after an underwater fibre cable was mistakenly severed.…
Z.com has been sold for $6.8m (£4.3m, 800m yen) to Japanese domain biz GMO Registry, putting it in the top ten of all-time domain name sales.…
The telecoms giant formerly known as BSkyB has been ordered to remove a "best ever" broadband ad after rival BT claimed it was "misleading".…
Android for business is under threat from Microsoft, claims CCS Insight. The Chocolate company’s mobile OS will fall out of favour as the top alternative to Apple, says VP of Enterprise research Nick McQuire.…
A new indoor positioning system has been unveiled by Bluetooth grandees Cambridge Silicon Radio. The system consists of Android middleware which gives access to a database of indoor positions.…
The telecoms giant formerly known as BSkyB has been ordered to remove a "best ever" broadband ad after rival BT claimed it was "misleading".…
HP and Symantec are partnering to develop a cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering using Symantec software and HP's Helion cloud.…
Nearly 10 million locked-away domain names will be set free and go on sale over the next two months.…
US cable giant Comcast is offering some subscribers an app that tracks the whereabouts of its technicians before they arrive for a service appointment. So if you're waiting around for ages wondering where he or she is, there'll be a light at the end of the tunnel.…
You can now use the Amazon Zocalo Sync client to store and share files up to 5TB. The speed of uploads and downloads has been improved, and they will resume if there is an interruption in the connection.
In addition, you can now access Amazon Zocalo on your phone by downloading a mobile app for your iPhone or Android device, making it possible to share securely using your corporate credentials. Offline mode, comments, and sharing are now all possible from your phone.
The phone apps are now available to install for all devices through the Kindle,Google Play, and iOS Stores.
To learn more about support for larger files visit our website. If you're not running the Amazon Zocalo Sync client already, click here to install it.
Downloading mobile apps from non-official sources has become a lot more dangerous over the last year, with apps now needing more built-in protection, according to a new report.…
When the head of infrastructure services at CERN tells you that he has come to the conclusion that there’s nothing intrinsically “special” about the systems at the multi-billion atom-smasher, you naturally want to check you’ve heard correctly.…
Doing business in the cloud is more secure the owning your own data centre, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has claimed.…
Working on the move has become most people's normal way of operating. We are used to having our world in our pocket and being able to read and write emails, produce simple documents and generally stay in the corporate loop whether we are in the office, in the pub, on a train or (sadly) sitting on a beach trying to be on holiday.…
Hacker seized a database from the City of Detroit earlier this year before unsuccessfully demanding $800,000 in Bitcoin.…
The GreenTouch group, which researches less power-hungry networking technologies, is pitching an NFV-style home gateway architecture as one way to curb broadband networks' appetite for electrons.…
We are lowering prices for Amazon CloudSearch by up to 50% (depending on instance type). The price reductions apply to all AWS Regions where Amazon CloudSearch is available and will be retroactively applied for usage beginning on November 1, 2014. For example, in the US East Region, the price of a small search instance was reduced to $0.059 per hour, and the price of a large search instance was reduced to $0.236 per hour. The full list of new prices can be found on the Amazon CloudSearch Pricing page.
Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-managed service that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application. To get started with the service, please visit our detail page. To learn more about recently released features, see our What’s New page and the Amazon CloudSearch Developer Guide. Please share your thoughts on these and any additional features you'd like to see in the CloudSearch forum. We really appreciate customer feedback and use it to help us prioritize upcoming features.
We have added support for the latest generation Amazon EC2 instance families (M3, C3, R3, I2, and G2) for the Community (M3), Enterprise (M5), and Enterprise Database (M7) editions of the MapR Distribution in Amazon EMR.
In addition, we are lowering the hourly pricing for the Enterprise (M5) and Enterprise Database (M7) editions of the MapR Distribution in Amazon EMR. We will continue to offer the Community (M3) edition for free. To learn more about the new supported instance types for and lower pricing of the MapR Distribution including Apache Hadoop, click here. To learn more about the using the MapR Distribution in Amazon EMR, click here.
David Flynn's Primary Data startup is apparently reinventing "file virtualization" for software-defined data centers – and thus taking on EMC's ViPR and Quantum's StorNext.…
We are delighted to announce that Amazon Redshift is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region.
AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS Region designed to allow US government agencies and customers to move sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. The AWS GovCloud (US) framework adheres to U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) regulations as well as the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMPSM) requirements.
Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse service that costs as little as $1,000/TB/Year. Amazon Redshift enables you to encrypt your data in transit and at rest - using SSL connections between your client application and the cluster and encrypting data written to disk via AES-256. By default, Amazon Redshift takes care of key management, but you can choose to manage your keys using your own on premise hardware security modules (HSMs). Amazon Redshift can also ingest data encrypted using client side encryption on Amazon S3. Amazon Redshift logs all SQL operations, which you can access using system tables or download securely to Amazon S3. Taken together these features allow numerous customers, including Nasdaq and IMS Health, to run extremely sensitive workloads on Amazon Redshift.
To get started with Amazon Redshift for free for two months, please visit the AWS Management Console for the GovCloud region. To learn more about Amazon Redshift's recently released features, please visit the Developer Guide and Management Guide history. To receive alerts when new features are announced, please subscribe to our feature announcements thread in the Amazon Redshift forum.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage.
Now, Amazon S3 can send event notifications to trigger workflows or take other actions when objects are uploaded to Amazon S3. Notification messages can be sent through either Amazon SNS or Amazon SQS, or delivered directly to AWS Lambda to trigger AWS Lambda functions. For example, you could use Amazon S3 event notifications to trigger transcoding of media files when they are uploaded, processing of data files when they become available, or synchronization of Amazon S3 objects with other data stores.
Learn more about Amazon S3 event notifications by reading the blog post.
To get started, visit Configuring Notification for Amazon S3 Events in the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.
AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you, making it easy to build applications that respond quickly to new information. AWS Lambda starts running your code within milliseconds of an event such as an image upload, in-app activity, website click, or output from a connected device. You can also use AWS Lambda to create new back-end services where compute resources are automatically triggered based on custom requests. With AWS Lambda you pay only for the requests served and the compute time required to run your code. Billing is metered in increments of 100 milliseconds, making it cost-effective and easy to scale automatically from a few requests per day to thousands per second.
AWS Lambda is available in Preview. Learn more at http://ift.tt/1xSv4Rv.
Amazon EC2 Container Service is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run distributed applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles. You can use EC2 Container Service to schedule the placement of containers across your cluster based on your resource needs, isolation policies, and availability requirements. Amazon EC2 Container Service eliminates the need for you to operate your own cluster management and configuration management systems or worry about scaling your management infrastructure.
Learn more at http://ift.tt/1uqsAe5.
Ofcom is planning to nick some of the airwaves currently used by digital terrestrial telly and hand them over for mobile broadband use.…
Two things in life are certain: death and taxes. Amazon and other international corporations have found ways* around the latter, but no one can avoid the former.…
Microsoft suffered a major outage on its cloud service Azure overnight.…
Choose your own device (CYOD), the latest incarnation of mobility device management, is being promoted as a smarter alternative to BYOD (bring your own device), with more benefits for everybody and fewer pitfalls.…
Microsoft has added a video portal to Office 365, enabling users to upload and share videos. The service will be in preview soon, and available to all customers with the right kind of subscription in early 2015.…
Fujitsu’s CTO slapped down the net neutrality dogmatists yesterday, saying the flood of data due to the emergence of the internet of things meant society would force a new pricing model.…
Facebook's app-breakout strategy - aimed at spreading its tentacles further in an effort to squeeze more ad revenue from its userbase - continued on Tuesday, with the launch of a Groups app.…
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is working on two projects that will scale its compute and storage technologies to serve Internet of Things deployments in smart cities.…
In modern computing, disaster recovery can be thought of in the same way as insurance: nobody really wants to pay for it, the options are complicated and seemingly designed to swindle you, but it is irrational (and often illegal) to operate without it.…
Shop Direct is a £1.7bn group that owns some of the best-known brands in retail - firms that pioneered what the cutting edge of shopping.…
Some sysadmins will go to extremes to secure a network, viewing it (wrongly) as their property.…
ournalists who cover cloud have a recurring nightmare: leaving the “l” out of “public cloud” and copping a caning in the comments for their somewhat Freudian slip.…
Remember those regrettable tweets you posted years ago? The ones that thankfully, eventually, disappeared from trace? Twitter remembers. And now everyone else will, too.…
UK communications watchdog Ofcom has opened an investigation into Premier League football TV rights, following a complaint from Virgin Media.…
TRUSTe, which issues the privacy seals displayed on thousands of websites, has paid a settlement over charges it deceived consumers through its Privacy Seal Program.…
Verizon's recently acquired content delivery network EdgeCast has been blocked in China the day before the country hosts the World Internet Conference.…
Like it or not, BYOD (bring your own device) is here to stay. Being able to get your emails on your personal iPad and such is all very well but it comes with both a cost and a risk.…
New York City could replace public pay-phones in five boroughs with Wi-Fi hubs to build a city-wide wireless internet network.…
Cloud computing is a big deal these days. Old farts like me can debate ad nauseam whether cloud is just a new word for what we use to call managed or hosted services and whether it is barking to call an on-premise virtualised infrastructure a private cloud.…
NBN Co has set in place the new rollout principles announced last week, in the form of a new corporate plan.…
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to spend $1.5bn on hooking up high-speed broadband to more American schools and libraries.…
The Internet Society has blasted efforts from some quarters to create a "UN Security Council" for the internet – which would rule over the online world.…
Fasthosts' five-hour collapse today has been blamed on a Distributed Denial of Service attack and a security flaw spotted on its Windows 2003 shared web server kit.…
If you sell digital goods on a website using Google Wallet to take payment, you have a little over three months to find an alternative.…
Google is to run another test flight for its Project Loon internet-bringing balloons, this time sending up 20 new helium gas bags in Australia in partnership with Telstra.…
Carphone Warehouse’s former pet telco TalkTalk has jumped ship from Vodafone to do an MVNO deal with Telefonica, signalling a move that will see it take on other quad-play telcos.…
Fasthosts went titsup this morning after DNS issues blighted the service.…
UK telcos need to stop fibbing about the network speeds they offer to subscribers, consumer champion Which? demanded today.…
Facebook's decision to hire engineers in London is reportedly related to its plans to build a social-network-for-suits to compete with LinkedIn, Microsoft Office and Google Drive.…
A widow was forced to take direct action against a T-Mobile shop, after it demanded payments for her dead husband's bill.…
Virgin Media's broadband network suffered what appeared to be a widespread service disruption on Saturday – the second such weekend, packet loss blunder to have struck the cable company in recent months.…
Facebook is clamping down on advertisers who use the free content ad network to tout brands through so-called "promotional Page posts".…
Apple, Microsoft, HP and other cloud giants are begging Europe for help to stop US feds seizing customers’ data from servers on the Continent.…
The winner of the competition for a Poppy 3D viewer from Firebox is Martin Harding from Great Yarmouth.…
NetApp is continuing its strategy of trying to get ONTAP more integrated with Amazon's storage cloud by having it manage data in Cumulo Amazonius, and back up data to said cloud with the recently acquired SteelStore product.…
Turnaround artiste John Chen marked one year as BlackBerry boss with an avalanche of enterprise software news related to the firm's new BES12 server, which can manage enterprise mobe devices running Android, iOS, Windows Phone – and of course, BB's own mobile OS.…
Mobile broadband speeds in the UK are pretty good, according to a new report from Ofcom, although concerns remain over the methodology used. The average mobile broadband download speed on 4G (15.1Mbps) was more than twice as fast as 3G (6.1Mbps) across all the networks.…
We have had enough wake-up calls now, right? Enough squeaky-bum moments.…
A startup in Germany reckons it's found a, how can we put this, courageous way to merge cloud computing with staying warm at home this winter.…
Cisco's chief architect and CTO for engineering David Ward has blasted standards development organisations (SDOs), asking whether they are “relevant in a rapidly expanding environment of Open Source Software (OSS) projects.”…
One of the FCC's five commissioners, Jessica Rosenworcel, says she wants to use both the 1934 and 1996 telecommunication laws to bring US broadband up to date.…
Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels today revealed a Container Service for AWS's EC2 cloud.…
Amazon upped the ante for application development on Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday, with the launch of a new service that lets developers write event-driven code without managing any infrastructure.…
A judge in Washington DC has ruled that a country's entire internet registry cannot be seized, averting a global diplomatic crisis.…
EE and Three signed an agreement with CityFibre this morning to deploy dark fibre backhaul links to mobile masts for the UK networks.…
Amazon thinks it knows a thing or two about deploying applications in the cloud, and to prove it, it's rolling out a collection of new tools to help developers improve the build and deployment lifecycles of their cloudy apps.…
Alcatel-Lucent is the latest firm to announce that it's turning its entire routing code base into a virtual router to run on x86 server platforms.…
Parents' biggest concern about life online is admen stalking kids across the web, according to new research.…
NBN Co, the company building Australia's national broadband network, has released “broad principles” it says “will determine which access technology will be deployed to connect communities to the National Broadband Network (NBN).”…
Amazon fired a volley at Oracle and other relational database vendors on Wednesday, with the launch of a new, cloud-hosted database service that it says can deliver better performance than on-premises installations at a fraction of the cost.…
A Google lawyer says Europeans spied on by the NSA should get the same rights as Americans – such as the right to sue the US government for privacy invasions.…
US watchdog the FCC has decided to ponder a little more on the fate of net neutrality – and delayed a crucial vote on the issue until next year.…
Cloud-flinger Rackspace has joined Microsoft’s new army of cloud service providers.…
When Dick Powell, ace designer and co-founder of SeymourPowell, designed the Tefal Freeline, the world’s first cordless kettle, it wasn’t for the likes of you and me. The thinking behind it was that while most people could cope with a power lead, those with restricted mobility could not.…
A man who illegally accessed the passwords and login details of more than 1,000 EE customers has been fined just £500 for his actions by the UK's data watchdog.…
TalkTalk is the latest ISP to be rapped by the UK's advertising watchdog for telling porkies about its broadband service.…
Many companies understand the obvious aspects of BYOD (bring your own device) and mobile device management (MDM). Employees work on the devices that they like and use and share data seamlessly, whether that data is personal or business.…
Australia's dominant telco, Telstra, has flicked the switch on real-time notifications of mobile data use.…
Bookseller-turned-bazaar Amazon has beaten off competition from eight other companies, including Google and publisher Bowker, to win the right to sell domains ending in .book.…
Services-based reseller Logicalis is looking to fill the void left by losing the Wales Public Sector Network (PSN) gig to BT with more bite-sized projects. Well, that's the plan at least.…
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7 has entered beta, giving Red Hat customers a lean, lightweight OS host for container-oriented cloudy IT.…
Microsoft is finally putting its own brand the phones it makes and sells. The company's latest Lumia 535 drops the Nokia branding completely, sporting 'Microsoft' front and rear.…
University of Texas researchers have developed an electronic “radio wave circulator” they say would enable full-duplex communications on mobile phones using a single frequency band.…
Facebook says about 500 million people use its Messenger phone app, somewhat short of the 1,120 million people who visit the social network each month from their mobiles.…
Big data analytics firm Hortonworks filed paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announcing its intent to go public, making it the first of the Hadoop startups to float an initial public offering.…
Online tat bazaar eBay has collapsed in the UK, with intermittent outages affecting people around the country.…
The prevalence of BYOD (bring your own device) activity across the enterprise landscape has seen every IT vendor worth its salt try to offer a solution to the problem of keeping employees' mobile devices under control.…
The worldview of elastic compute, or mine at least, has historically had very little Microsoft involved in it. Recently however, I have attended several job interviews and one question that has invariably been asked is: “We are planning on moving from Windows to Linux. Have you done it before?”…
Russian domestic internet traffic has in the past year sailed through Shanghai due to routing errors by China Telecom, network boffin Doug Madory says.…
Former, draconian Home Secretary David Blunkett – who held the post at the time of the 9/11 attacks in the US – has claimed that technology companies that encrypt communications on their networks are helping terrorists to spread fear.…
Virgin Media customers were hit by an annoying network cockup on Saturday, after the cable company's smut-filtering Web Safe system stupidly blocked lots of websites.…
Space rocket baron Elon Musk is reportedly in tentative talks with industry players and regulatory bods to build 700 internet satellites weighing less than 250 pounds each.…
Mark Zuckerberg has once again trashed David Fincher's candid portrayal of the Facebook co-founder's life in his 2010 movie The Social Network.…
Every IT manager worth his or her salt would really like to get hold of users’ physical devices to lock down security and manage privileges, protocols and permissions in the perpetual quest for control. This is not always possible.…
Ofcom has opened a consultation (PDF) on plans to auction Ministry of Defence spectrum next year - but the regulator has failed to include coverage obligations in the proposals, despite controversy over mobile "notspots".…
Just as operators struggle to make direct profit improvements from LTE, so the vendors have long given up on 4G upgrades being the solution to all their problems.…
Today we are refreshing the available hardware and software options for Amazon WorkSpaces.
We are introducing a Value bundle, which is a great option for people in your organization who use a browser and one or two productivity applications. The Value bundle includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB Memory, and 10 GB of user storage. The Value Plus bundle is also available, which provides the same hardware resources and also includes Microsoft Office Professional.
To provide you with better performance, the hardware resources for WorkSpaces Standard bundles are being increased from 1 vCPU to 2 vCPUs and from 3.75 GiB Memory of memory to 4 GiB of Memory. There is no additional charge for these new hardware resources. All existing Standard and Standard Plus WorkSpaces will be upgraded automatically to the latest hardware before the end of the year. This will automatically occur during the scheduled maintenance window for the AWS region in which the WorkSpace is located. We will notify you 5 days prior to the window in which your WorkSpaces will be upgraded. All of your data on the C and D drives will be maintained during the upgrade.
Lastly, you can now choose to use Office Professional 2013 or Office Professional 2010 on your WorkSpaces if you select one of the Plus bundles.
The bundle updates are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions today, and will be available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region soon. Visit your AWS Management Console, or learn more by visiting our website.
Somewhat out the blue, Amazon is flogging a new gadget called Echo – which is a cross between ice maiden Siri and wireless speaker system Sonos, and will save you having to using your fingers ever again.…
Google is wasting its time with its aptly named Project Loon and drones. So says Hans Vestberg, Ericsson’s CEO.…
Java 8 Tomcat 8 is now available on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Elastic Beanstalk already makes it easier to quickly deploy, manage and scale Java, Docker, Node.js, Python, PHP, .NET, and Ruby applications on AWS. Now, Elastic Beanstalk offers the same functionality for Java 8 Tomcat 8 applications. For a complete list of supported platforms, see Supported Platforms.
For more information on AWS Elastic Beanstalk:
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.4, Java 7 GlassFish 4.0, and Java 8 GlassFish 4.1. You can now deploy your applications relying on these languages/frameworks on Elastic Beanstalk using the AWS Management Console and the new EB CLI v3 we launched last week.
With this release, we are introducing a new category of supported platforms – Preconfigured Docker. This category of platforms is based on the language stacks provided by the Official Docker Repos on the Docker Hub Registry. This allows us to quickly provide you with the newest versions of additional language/framework platforms. If you are interested in building your own platforms based on the official Docker language stacks, you can use our Dockerfile(s) as a starting point.
The ‘Preconfigured Docker’ platforms are delivered as Docker containers allowing you to develop and test your applications locally using the same container that your application will be deployed to on Elastic Beanstalk. For more information on how to get started with these platforms, see Getting Started with Elastic Beanstalk Preconfigured Docker Platforms.
For more information on AWS Elastic Beanstalk:
