This new version of the Quick Start makes it easier than ever to get up and running with Trend Micro Deep Security on the AWS cloud. Trend Micro Deep Security is a host-based security product that provides Anti-Malware, Host Firewall, Intrusion Prevention, File Integrity Monitoring, Log Inspection, Web Application Firewalling, and Content Filtering modules in a single agent running in the guest operating system.
Large balloons firing data are nothing to worry about, Google has told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in its latest license application.…
Analysis T-Mobil'e BingeOn gamble of removing video consumption from its subscribers data bundles, appears to be defying its critics, with large increases in mobile video viewing.…
The BBC has picked BT to provide its internal network, in a £100m deal that will run for the next seven years.…
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Whirr whirr click. Oh come on, print, dammit. Bzzzzt. Whirr click [silence] brrrrrrrrrrr [silence].…
The government's contentious Emergency Services Network deal, intended to provide 4G coverage and devices for all blue light services, will be able to run on the London Underground, the man in charge of the scheme has insisted.…
Last week, a chap named Mario Karpinnen took to Medium with a tale of how downloading 60GB of data from Amazon Web Services' archive-grade Glacier service cost him a whopping US$158.…
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) and Amazon CloudSearch are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region.
We are excited to launch three new features to enhance the WorkSpaces user experience. Amazon WorkSpaces has added support for voice communication with headsets, high DPI screens, and saved registrations.
Telkom Indonesia, the nation's dominant telco thanks to its nearly 130 million subscribers, has decided to block Netflix.…
Companies are going to be selling a lot more public Wi-Fi plans over the next few years and it's going to be home Wi-Fi users who'll be the backbone of the network, according to analysts from Juniper Research.…
We are pleased to announce support for MQTT over WebSockets and additional new features for AWS IoT.
The United States is still lagging the world in the rollout of broadband, but things are looking up as federal telecom regulator the FCC formally gave itself the power to act Thursday.…
You can now configure Auto Scaling to operate on a schedule using the AWS management console. Previously, this functionality was only available through the AWS Application Programming Interface (API), Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS CloudFormation.
You can now use Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway in the EU (Frankfurt) region. NAT Gateway is a highly available AWS managed service that makes it easy to connect to the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Previously, you needed to launch a NAT instance to enable NAT for instances in a private subnet.
Microsoft’s dream of a smooth transition to Windows 10 Mobile needs a reality check. Figures from AdDuplex, which samples devices actually in use, finds that much of today’s active Windows Phone user base won’t be able to make the update.…
UK ISP TalkTalk is considering cutting ties with its Indian call center provider after three employees at the site were arrested for allegedly scamming customers.…
Broadcom's grinning like the Cheshire Cat, with its OEMs apparently dominating the first round of DOCSIS 3.1 device certification. DOCSIS 3.1 is a standard allowing for gigabit-and-above data transmission rates over existing hybrid fibre-coax cables widely deployed around the world for cable television delivery.…
Internet service providers in the Australian state of Tasmanian are bracing for a temporary loss of connectivity, as the owner of the Basslink cable connecting the island state to the mainland scrambles to fix a break in its electricity transmission system.…
The man who started the ill-fated Aereo TV service is back, and this time he wants to start an ISP.…
Users of Microsoft Office now have more choice where they keep and work on their documents, and with whom they co-create them.…
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is trying to kill off one of life's most frustrating rip-offs: the clunky, outdated cable box that you are pressured to "rent" from your cable provider.…
You can now configure AWS WAF to block, allow, or monitor (count) requests based on the content in HTTP request bodies. This is the part of a request that contains any additional data that you want to send to your web server as the HTTP request body, such as data from an HTML form.
You can now configure AWS WAF to block, allow, or monitor (count) requests based on the content in HTTP request bodies. This is the part of a request that contains any additional data that you want to send to your web server as the HTTP request body, such as data from an HTML form.
Amazon EMR release 4.3.0 now offers upgraded versions of Apache Hadoop (2.7.1), Apache Spark (1.6.0), Ganglia (3.7.2), and an upgraded sandbox release of Presto (0.130). Hadoop 2.7.1 is a minor version upgrade with various bug fixes and performance enhancements. Spark 1.6.0 includes several new features, such as the compile-time type safety using the Dataset API, machine learning pipeline persistence using the Spark ML Pipeline API, a variety of new machine learning algorithms in Spark ML, and automatic memory management between execution and cache memory in executors. Presto 0.130 now supports S3 server-side encryption and client-side encryption using the PrestoS3Filesystem.
Facebook's Open Compute Project has staked out its next battlefield: the conservative world of the telco. The OCP Telco Project whichjust launched counts AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, EE, SK Telecom, Verizon, Nexius, Nokia Networks and Equinix as its foundation members.…
You can now provision SSL/TLS certificates and associate them with CloudFront distributions within minutes. Simply provision a certificate using the new AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and deploy it to your CloudFront distribution with a couple of clicks, and let ACM manage certificate renewals for you. ACM allows you to provision, deploy, and manage the certificate with no additional charges.
It's a bit late, but Microsoft will be releasing the first technical preview of Azure Stack – its cloud-in-a-box for those who prefer their data on-premises.…
You can now integrate Google+ Sign-in to provide federated authentication for your Mobile Hub generated applications. With this addition, Mobile Hub now fully integrates with two external identity providers: Facebook and Google+.
The number of public Wi-Fi hotspots piggybacking on private routers in the UK is set to increase "significantly" by next year, according to research.…
Retailers have been urged to create a standard symbol, similar to the one used to denote the use of CCTV, to inform customers that their location within shopping areas is being tracked through their mobile device.…
Yet another US state is weighing up the idea of laying thousands of miles of cable to create its own broadband network.…
You can now instruct AWS CloudFormation to continue rolling back an update to your stack even after the rollback has failed. Previously, you would not be able to reinitiate a rollback of your stack after it had originally failed, requiring you to contact customer support.
Poor advertising and expensiveness have been blamed for the woeful uptake of the government's subsided satellite broadband scheme, with just 24 people having so far signed up.…
BT has dismissed calls by more than 100 MPs to separate broadband arm Openreach as "wrong-headed", in response to a damning report that found that despite the telco having received £1.7bn in subsidies to get Britain online, 5.7 million people still cannot access the internet.…
The US state of West Virginia is debating whether it should get into the ISP business, thanks to a new bill calling for a state-run fiber broadband network.…
dotCloud, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) upstart, will shut down next month as its parent company Cloud Control has filed for bankruptcy.…
The Swedish government is considering overturning its long-held opposition to internet filtering – so says one of the country's most high-profile ISPs.…
In some offices, you have to ask around for the Wi-Fi password, or find it written down on a bit of paper. In others, you do it by poking a banana.…
You can now invoke AWS Lambda functions in your software release pipelines modeled in AWS CodePipeline. This lets you specify actions in your pipeline’s stages that can trigger custom functions defined by your code, allowing you to customize your software release pipeline.
The Chocolate Factory and Red Hat have announced a partnership to run the Linux firm's OpenShift Dedicated container platform on the Google Cloud Platform in the next few months.…
Research house 451 reckons public cloud storage spend will double in two years, with on-premises storage spend falling 17 per cent.…
IBM has acquired internet telly station Ustream in hopes of boosting its cloud lineup.…
We are pleased to announce that Elastic Load Balancing is integrated with AWS Certificate Manager to provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates.
AWS Certificate Manager is a new service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services. SSL/TLS certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet. AWS Certificate Manager removes the time-consuming manual process of purchasing, uploading, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates. With AWS Certificate Manager, you can quickly request a certificate, deploy it on AWS resources such as Elastic Load Balancers or Amazon CloudFront distributions, and let AWS Certificate Manager handle certificate renewals. SSL/TLS certificates provisioned through AWS Certificate Manager are free. You pay only for the AWS resources you create to run your application.
To learn more, visit the AWS Certificate Manager website.
Blighty's advertising regulator has vowed to clamp down on "misleading" broadband advertising prices, following its findings that three in four people are unable to work out true cost of broadband deals.…
Around 250,000 broadband customers left TalkTalk following its major hack in October, according to research.…
India's argument with Facebook rages on, with the nation's Telecoms Regulatory Authority (TRAI) sending The Social NetworkTM a stinging letter in which it accuses the company of astro-turfing* a campaign in support of its Free Basics service.…
Indonesia's crowded mobile carrier market is set for a consolidation one way or the other, with the country's communications minister warning minnows they could lose their operating licenses.…
AWS CodeDeploy is now available in the US West (N. California) AWS region.
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been urged to put in place stronger protections for broadband subscribers' privacy.…
We are pleased to announce that Run Command has been expanded to the following 6 regions: US West (N. California), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and South America (Sao Paulo). This is in addition to existing support for US East (N. Virgina), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland). Run Command provides a simple way to securely manage the configuration of your AWS EC2 instances and lets you automate simple tasks like executing Shell scripts on Linux, running PowerShell commands on Windows, installing software or patches, and more.
Comcast subscribers across the San Francisco Bay Area reported problems with their broadband connections Tuesday night through Wednesday morning.…
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Redis version 2.8.24 with enhanced capabilities. Customers can launch new clusters with Redis 2.8.24, as well as upgrade existing ones to the new engine version.
Microsoft is donating $1bn worth of its cloud services over three years to charities and non profits.…
PwC is the latest big consultancy to grab a piece of the cloud action by hoovering up integrator Outbox Group, a European firm that specialises in CRM, marketing automation and IT maintenance.…
Facebook started 2016 with the bold claim that it intends to eradicate phone numbers and replace web browsing, but the Social Network has a mountain to climb before Facebook Messenger becomes the centre of our online world.…
You can now use Amazon Route 53 alias records to map custom domain names (e.g. www.helloworld.net) to AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments (e.g. helloworld.elasticbeanstalk.com) without incurring additional Route 53 query charges.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and CableLabs are worried that network function virtualisation (NFV) could fracture, and have hosted a confab in Louisville, Colorado this week designed to keep everybody marching more or less in step.…
Juniper Networks has snagged a share of US$24m being spent to upgrade the US Air Force's networks.…
Run your Appium tests written in Python with AWS Device Farm
As our healthcare and life sciences customers use AWS products to deliver the next generation of medical, health, and wellness solutions, we're happy to announce that AWS customers are now successfully developing, validating and operating all or part of their GxP systems using AWS products. To help speed adoption, and in cooperation with Lachman Consultants, a multidisciplinary team of highly experienced FDA and pharmaceutical industry experts, we’ve developed and published a new whitepaper, “Considerations for Using AWS Products in GxP Systems”. GxP requirements apply to organizations that make regulated food and medical products such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and mobile medical applications – contact AWS Sales to determine if these GxP enablers are the right option for you!
To learn more about GxP compliance on AWS, customers can visit our GxP FAQ Page.
NASA’s Ames Research Centre is moving many files into Amazon’s S3 cloud using Avere’s gateway tech.…
Amazon Web Services' aspiration to power its clouds with not much more than hot air are closer to fruition, after the company flicked the switch on its first wind farm.…
America is threatening to “go it alone” on spectrum policy, again.…
Comment Who could possibly be against free internet access? This is the question Mark Zuckerberg asks in a piece for the Times of India in which he claims Facebook’s Free Basics service “protects net neutrality”.…
There's no way to tell just how successful your suppliers are in the cloud, because nobody's counting cloud cash consistently.…
IBM has introduced a new cloud service it calls “dynamic pricing” that says a lot about where online retailing, IBM and its relationship with partners is going.…
Special report Thirty years ago today, 16 January 1986, the Internet Engineering Task Force – IETF – was born at a meeting in San Diego.…
IDC abacus acrobats have worked out that a third of IT infrastructure spend is going to the cloud, up from just under a quarter a year ago.…
Windows Phone users beware: Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out the Windows 10 system update in various territories. Until such a time as the new software platform reaches maturity, users may experience a loss of features, diminished battery life and unexpected bugs.…
The UK's competition watchdog has today cleared the £12.5bn takeover of EE by BT, finding that the merger will "not cause significant harm to competition or the interests of consumers."…
Microsoft's cut Azure prices again, while also making it plain that it thinks Amazon Web Services (AWS) is weak in the hybrid cloud.…
You can now download version 1.0.200 of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool. This version adds support for PostgreSQL as a conversion target, in addition to MySQL/MariaDB/Aurora conversion targets available previously. Further improvements include:
To learn more, review the 1.0.200 Release Notes, download the latest version of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool for the development platform of your choice (Windows, Mac, Fedora (rpm), Ubuntu (deb)) and follow the AWS SCT Installation Guide.
Amazon CloudWatch now provides a stream of events describing changes to your AWS resources, such as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance coming into service or failing a system health check, the Auto Scaling service adding instances to a deployment, or suspicious API call patterns being logged in AWS CloudTrail.
Efforts to expand IT and internet connectivity in developing countries are producing results that are "far less than expected," according to the World Bank.…
Workday has hired Google veteran Peter Lorant to run its alliances business in Europe.…
AWS is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new automated sign-up capability for AWS GovCloud (US). The new self-service capability greatly reduces the time it takes for qualified customers to gain access to AWS GovCloud (US). To get started, log in with root credentials for your standard AWS account to enable use of AWS GovCloud (US), navigate to the My Account page from the AWS Management Console, and select the “Sign Up for AWS GovCloud (US)” button. Note that automated sign-up is only available to direct AWS customers in the United States.
Oracle today unveiled a massive EMEA recruitment drive for its “cloud sales work force”.…
Hapless mobile operator TalkTalk's phone network has been hit by an outage, leaving customers without dial tones – and without service – on landlines.…
British telco minnow Gigaclear has topped up its coffers with a €25m (£19m) loan from the European Investment Bank, a move it reckons will help treble its rural broadband network in the UK this year.…
Cisco has launched a software-as-a-service-based attack on shadow IT.…
Amazon Web Services has just done something rather interesting, in the form of making it possible to reserve servers in advance for short bursts of computing.…
In November, we announced that EC2 and EBS will have longer identifiers for instances, volumes, reservations, and snapshots to support the ongoing growth of Amazon Web Services. Starting today, you can opt in to using longer EC2 instance and reservation IDs using APIs or the AWS Management Console. Note: Longer EBS volume and snapshot IDs will be available in April 2016.
An activist investor is pressing AT&T for more details about how it handles government data requests.…
At the end of my holidays, as I waited for a for a flight to Sydney, I ran to a bloke I know who has a very healthy business as a marriage celebrant. Two hundred couples a year say their vows under his auspices, and he’s always looking for ways to keep his business fresh, to keep those engagements coming.…
Telstra's been accused of putting a stranglehold on National Broadband Network (NBN) connections. Our take: not quite yet.…
We are excited to announce three new security features that help further protect communication between Amazon CloudFront and your origin server.
Facebook has provided a passionate defense of its controversial Free Basics program and its approach of "zero rating."…
You can now purchase Amazon EC2 Scheduled Reserved Instances for applications that run on a part-time basis. Reserved Instances provide a capacity reservation so that you can have confidence in your ability to launch the number of instances you have reserved when you need them.
An investigation is underway after someone managed to infiltrate webmail and home broadband accounts belonging to the family of US spymaster James Clapper.…
You can now use Docker 1.9 on your Amazon ECS container instances. Read our documentation to learn how to use the latest Amazon ECS-optimized AMI.
Please visit our product page for more information about Amazon EC2 Container Service.
Amazon Web Services will open its first data center in Canada later this year, allowing folks to use AWS's cloud services in North America but not necessarily in the US.…
This Quick Start deploys a standardized environment that helps support National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 / Risk Management Framework (RMF) certifications, accreditations, and compliance processes. The Quick Start includes a deployment guide, which provides step-by-step instructions for deploying and configuring the environment. The deployment guide also includes links for viewing and launching AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployment.
The AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) console shows service last accessed data as part of the process of deleting an IAM user or role. Now you have additional data that shows you when a resource was last active so that you can make a more informed decision about whether or not to delete it.
To learn more, visit the AWS Security Blog.
The Council of Europe has approved and published strong net neutrality guidelines following a meeting in Strasbourg Wednesday.…
BlackBerry users worldwide received an OTA (over the air) “HotFix” update yesterday, regardless of where they bought the device. And that's significant.…
Blighty's competition watchdog is today expected to wave through the £12.5bn acquisition of EE by BT – in its final piece of paperwork before the two become one in March.…
European and Chinese telco bureaucrats are stripped and ripped and ready for four years of obstacle-course-racing to make sure their 5G is the 5G for the whole world.…
Australia had a shot at building a national fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network in the 1990s, but decided not to press the go button.…
Analysis T-Mobile US's excitable CEO John Legere has apologized while refusing to apologize over the aggressive stance he took in response to criticism of his network's BingeOn service.…
Comcast internet subscribers are complaining that the carrier has been bombarding them with requests to update their cable modems.…
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is the latest local authority to build its own dedicated data centre, with the council ready to splash up to £1.5m housing its own "hybrid cloud" services.…
The EU's telecoms market should be regulated by a single authority, two committees at the European Parliament have said.…
Microsoft has flicked the switch on an enhanced version of its Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for VMware customers.…
Citrix has offloaded its CloudPlatform products to Accelerite, bought Comtrade's System Center Operations Manager management packs and tweaked some of its software.…
The FRITZ!Box range of home broadband routers, popular in Germany and Australia, needs patching against a variety of remote code execution bugs.…
You can now use t2.nano Amazon EC2 instances when running applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The t2.nano is recommended for low-traffic website hosting, microservices and developer environments which have low memory needs and don’t need consistently high levels of CPU on average, but benefit significantly from having full access to very fast CPUs when they need them. Starting at only $4.75 per month ($0.0065 per hour), it is the lowest priced EC2 instance.
We are pleased to announce ClassicLink DNS Support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This feature enables support for DNS resolution of public hostnames to private IP addresses when queried over ClassicLink. A public DNS hostname of an instance in a VPC will resolve to private IP address when queried from a linked EC2-Classic instance. Similarly, a public DNS hostname of a linked EC2-Classic instance will resolve to private IP address when queried from an instance in the VPC. Additionally, you can now access private hosted zones associated with your VPC from a linked EC2-Classic instance. ClassicLink DNS support makes it easier for EC2-Classic instances to communicate with VPC resources using public DNS hostnames.
For more information see ‘Enable ClassicLink DNS Support’. You can learn more about ClassicLink, here.
The state of New York has given its blessing to the proposed merger of Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications, winning itself a nice boost in network speeds in the process.…
Brits using mobile networks EE, O2 and GiffGaff are unable to make calls this evening, UK time, amid an ongoing network breakdown.…
Not to be outbid by AWS's latest price cut, Google has announced that it too is slashing the costs of its cloudy services.…
A big fight has broken out between ISPs and their regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in the US.…
You can now configure Amazon Redshift Work Load Management (WLM) settings to move timed-out queries automatically to the next matching queue and restart them. The matching queue has the same Query Group or User Group as the original queue. Please see the WLM Queue Hopping section of our documentation for more detail.
UK comms regulator Ofcom's much-awaited digital communications review, which will determine whether to break BT's broadband monopoly by forcing a spin-off of Openreach, will not be released until late February at the earliest.…
Microsoft will include its own SIM card in some Windows 10 devices, thanks to a partnership with French mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Transatel.…
Global cloud revenues jumped 28 per cent year-on-year to reach $110bn (£75bn) in the 12 months to September 2015.…
AT&T says it has replaced nearly half of the software in its vast operations with open-source software-defined networking (SDN) code.…
AT&T says it has replaced nearly half of the software in its vast operations with open-source software-defined networking (SDN) code.…
T-Mobile US CEO John Legere has called BS – literally – on claims that his company's video service is throttling streaming speeds and hence quality.…
Blighty's competition watchdog is to review an appeal by BT against new rules designed to prevent the telco from setting unfair wholesale fibre prices for its rivals.…
CES A new standard for Wi-Fi for IoT devices may create yet more ways to attack vulnerable kit, according to a security consultancy with a storied history of hacking into internet-connected gizmos.…
Amazon Web Services has opened new bit barns in Seoul, South Korea – a day after nearby psychotic hermit nation North Korea tested an underground nuclear bomb.…
AWS is excited to announce immediate availability of the new AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Seoul joins Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, and Beijing as the fifth AWS Region in Asia Pacific and as the twelfth region worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 32 worldwide.
Fabless semiconductor design house MediaTek is continuing its "focus on the core business" strategy, with reports in Asia suggesting it plans to spin off its Ethernet chip operations this year.…
Amazon is readying its own ARM-compatible processors to power home routers, Wi-Fi hotspots, and network-attached storage boxes.…
A group of 30 non-profits and net neutrality advocates have posted a snippy open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg complaining about his "attacks" on Indian internet users.…
Analysis So far 2016 looks to be the year of mega telecoms deals in Europe, with the soon-to-complete £12.5bn EE/BT deal in the UK set to have a major impact on the market.…
Today, we added several enhancements to Cost Explorer that will allow you to better understand and manage your AWS costs, especially those related to EC2.
We are reducing the On-Demand, Reserved Instance, and Dedicated Host pricing for C4 and M4 instances running Linux by 5% in the US East (Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions.
AWS has flipped the switch on its WorkMail calendar and email service to bring it into general availability.…
Comcast's wireless home alarm systems can be trivially jammed, rendering them useless and allowing burglars to slip in undetected.…
Websites hosted by Easyspace have been dropping since Christmas with no explanation given to customers, whose complaints were only confirmed by the company this morning.…
HSBC has pushed forward its chief operating officer to "profoundly apologise" for the online outage that began on Monday morning and which is continuing to cause havoc for millions of internet banking customers.…
It's not often that a couple of services create a market segment on their own, but that's what Google Fiber and Comcast's 2Gbps home broadband rivalry seem to have done.…
The once-controversial Carrier iQ phone support software has been acquired by AT&T.…
A new version of OpenDNSSEC – an open-source implementation of DNSSEC – is hoping to plug a problem it is happy to have: increased use.…
We are excited to announce that Amazon WorkMail is now available to all customers. Amazon WorkMail is a secure, managed business email and calendar service with support for existing desktop and mobile clients. Amazon WorkMail gives users the ability to seamlessly access their email, contacts, and calendars using Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, their web browser, or their native iOS and Android email applications.
The Wi-Fi Alliance has formally unveiled the 802.11ah Wi-Fi standard, dubbed HaLow, which has been designed for low-power, high-range uses by connected Internet of Things devices.…
Things might have slowed down for Christmas and New Year in your workplace but the news did not take a break.…
New UK regulations are set to come into force at the end of this year to allow telecoms providers to use special devices to provide wireless data services via "white space" - licensed portions of radio spectrum which remain unused locally.…
Linode reckons its long outage has come to an end, although its most-current message says there may be “intermittent” issues for users, mostly of its Atlanta facility.…
