AWS Config is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. AWS Config is a fully managed service that gives you an inventory of your AWS resources, notifies you when the configurations of your resources change, and lets you audit the history of the configurations for those resources to enable security and governance.
Amazon RDS now offers Multi-AZ support for Amazon RDS for SQL Server in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Region. This new high availability option leverages SQL Server Mirroring technology with additional improvements to meet the requirements of enterprise-grade production workloads running on SQL Server. The Multi-AZ deployment option provides enhanced availability and data durability by automatically replicating database updates between two AWS Availability Zones. Availability Zones are physically separate locations with independent infrastructure engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones.
Amazon Aurora is now available to customers in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database management system (RDBMS) that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a high-end commercial RDBMS while delivering similar performance and availability.
Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) is now available in the EU (Ireland) region.
AWS CloudFormation has updated support for three services. You can now provision the following features using CloudFormation:
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) updated support
AWS Lambda updated support
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) updated support
Communications regulator Ofcom has named EE the mobile provider with the fastest speeds in four major cities, according to research published today.…
Telecoms regulator Ofcom will not release details of its proposals for greater structural separation of Openreach and BT until the end of the year.…
A proportion of very high frequency (VHF) wireless spectrum will be reserved for future use by Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices, the UK telecoms regulator has announced.…
SubPartners' APX-West cable from Perth to Singapore will finally go ahead, after the company changed its business model to a consortium build.…
The Amazon CloudWatch Events service now supports Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues as event targets.
Four new checks have been added to Trusted Advisor to provide recommendations related to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, and security. Additionally, the service limits check now includes IAM. These checks provide further guidance to help provision your resources based on AWS best practices.
The government's plans to make 10Mbps a 'legal right' by 2020 do not nearly go far enough, Bill Halbert, chief exec of telecoms sector firm Kcom has said.…
Static spectrum allocation is going to pass its use-by date soon, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has kicked off a US$2 million challenge to find co-operative ways to share radio frequencies.…
You can now assign one or more AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to your Amazon Redshift cluster for data loading and exporting. Amazon Redshift assumes the assigned IAM roles when you load data into your cluster using the COPY command or export data from your cluster using the UNLOAD command. It uses the resulting credentials to access other AWS services, such as Amazon S3, securely during these operations. IAM roles enhance security of your cluster and simplify data loading and exporting by eliminating the need for you to embed AWS access credentials within SQL commands. They also enable your cluster to periodically re-assume an IAM role during long-running operations. Handling of data encryption keys for COPY and UNLOAD commands remains unchanged.
You can now view change sets before updating your stacks in AWS CloudFormation. This helps you understand the resource-level changes (e.g. adding, deleting, or modifying instances) which CloudFormation will apply to your live stack when you are updating your AWS infrastructure. Previously, you could not see the specific changes that CloudFormation would apply to your stack before submitting changes.
AT&T and Verizon are taking heat on opposite sides of the US over their networks.…
The internet's root servers were not the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in December which for a short time took out four of the 13 pillars of the global network.…
You can now configure AWS WAF to block, allow, or monitor (count) requests based on Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) match conditions. XSS attacks are those where the attacker uses vulnerabilities in a benign website as a vehicle to inject malicious client-site scripts (like Javascript) into other legitimate user’s web browsers. This XSS match condition feature prevents these vulnerabilities in your web application by inspecting different elements of the incoming request.
Arista is taking on the big boys of Cisco and Juniper with its new switching and routing platform for cloud service providers and enterprise data centres.…
Verizon is moving ahead with its mm-wave wireless plans, filling applications for 28 Ghz-band experimental licenses in the US.…
Tasmania's long-suffering electricity and Internet users – in other words, nearly everyone – will have to wait until mid-June for a fix to the Basslink power and optical fibre cables.…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) released WorkSpaces, Windows desktop-as-a-service, towards the end of March 2014.…
In October of 2015, we added support for the popular open source MariaDB database in Amazon RDS and have since seen rapid adoption by customers. Amazon RDS supports MariaDB instances running in Single-AZ or Multi-AZ configurations in all AWS regions. Today we are extending the RDS Service Level Agreement ("SLA") that covers Multi-AZ instances for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL to include Amazon RDS for MariaDB.
Streaming video titan and net neutrality champion Netflix says it will be complicit in throttling content for wireless carriers.…
Starting today, Amazon RDS supports two new features for RDS for PostgreSQL database instances: the option to enforce only SSL connections to your instance, and near-realtime access to a set of 56 system and process metrics for your instance.
You can now scale up your existing ElastiCache for Redis clusters to a larger node type with a few clicks. Simply modify your node type by choosing from the available options and let ElastiCache manage the rest. Your existing node endpoints will persist, thus no application update is required. Scale up for Redis is designed to make a best effort to retain your existing data and requires Redis replication to succeed. For more details, please refer to Jeff Barr’s blog and ElastiCache Documentation.
GCP Next Google's third cloud developer conference is winding down, and two things are clear – that Google is willing to spend what it takes to become a major cloud player, and that it has a long way to go.…
You can use AWS Mobile Hub to develop apps in Swift. Simply login to the AWS Mobile Hub console to create a project and select features for your app including user authentication, data storage, backend logic, push notifications, content delivery, and analytics, then choose Swift from the build tab of your project. AWS Mobile Hub automatically provisions these features and generates a working quickstart app for iOS that you can use as a foundation for your app, or cut and paste code snippets to your existing app.
The French government has slammed the agreement to move the domain name system out from under US control and hand it to Californian non-profit ICANN.…
Support for multiple trails: You can now create up to 5 trails in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. Different stakeholders such as IT auditors, security administrators, and developers can create and manage their own trail. Additionally, you can prescribe granular access control to allow or deny access to specific trails for particular users. For more details, refer to the Multiple Trails section of the CloudTrail User Guide. One trail per region is free. Charges apply for additional trails. For pricing details, go to the CloudTrail pricing page.
AWS continues to innovate at a rapid pace, and one of the keys to building a successful business on AWS is ensuring you can accurately explain the value and operation of AWS and its latest features. AWS Business and Technical Professional courses consist of e-learning modules and assessments designed to help you stay current. Today we’re making them available in additional languages— Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese, with Spanish to follow soon. These courses are available at no cost to APN Partners via the APN Portal. Once you successfully complete all course assessments, you achieve an accreditation that validates your role-specific knowledge.
Amazon EC2 Spot instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. AWS customers in the area can now use Spot instances to save up to 90% compared to On-Demand prices by bidding on unused Amazon EC2 capacity. In addition to reducing the cost of running your applications, you can also use Spot instances to increase your computing scale and throughput for the same budget and enable new types of cloud computing applications.
The average home broadband speed increased to 28.9Mbps, up by 6Mps from a year ago – according to the latest annual research from Ofcom.…
Oracle is throwing one stone at two birds troubling its business: cloud and falling server sales. That stone: cloud in a box.…
The government has said it will not conduct another national broadband roll-out programme in order to meet its promise that every citizen in Blighty will have access to 10Mps by 2010.…
VIDEO In what's being touted as a “5G breakthrough”, University of Bristol researchers have demonstrated that MIMO (multi-in, multi-out) antenna arrangements can be scaled up to more than 100 transmitters.…
GCP Next Google has been showing off the Stackdriver cloud monitoring tool it opened in beta at the start of the year, and it's bad news for Microsoft.…
Analysis The FCC's continued push against the powerful telco lobby has swung a spotlight onto the American regulator's archaic work practices and increasingly partisan atmosphere.…
Amazon RDS for SQL server now supports authentication using the Windows Authentication method. You can now enable your applications to authenticate against Amazon RDS for SQL Server using credentials stored in the AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition). Keeping all of your credentials in the same directory will save you time and effort because you will no longer have to find and update each copy of the credentials in separate repositories. This may also improve your overall security profile. Windows Authentication support is now available for new instances as well as existing instances.
Today we are announcing the availability of two new CloudWatch metrics for monitoring network packets on EC2 instances. The new metrics are NetworkPacketsIn and NetworkPacketsOut. These new metrics provide insight into the number of network packets flowing to and from an EC2 instance. These metrics are available along with the other CloudWatch metrics for all EC2 instances on the EC2 console, CLI and API.
Google’s smartphone payment system, Android Pay, is coming to the UK “in the next few months".…
Akamai’s state of the internet survey is the most comprehensive global snapshot of internet performance you’ll find. So if you’re country (or state) is falling behind, you can see how. These days, the survey even comes with its own app.…
If your favourite Microsoft staffer isn't answering the phone today, it may be because they're getting calls from angry Azure workers all over the world after the cloud service experienced three Partial Inability To Support Totally Optimal Performance (PITSTOP) incidents.…
Google has decided to play catch-up with Amazon Web Services (AWS), announcing that it's going to add 12 regions to its cloud services by the end of 2017.…
Analysis Everyone wants to leave their job on a high, but so few manage it.…
The AWS Cryptography team has announced the AWS Encryption SDK. This new SDK makes encryption easier for developers while minimizing errors that could lower the security of their applications. Developers using encryption often face two problems: a. how to correctly generate and use a key to encrypt data, and b. how to protect the key after it’s been used. The library provided in the AWS Encryption SDK addresses the first problem by transparently implementing the low-level details using the cryptographic provider available in a developer’s environment. The library addresses the second problem by providing intuitive interfaces to let developers choose how they want to protect their encryption keys after use. By using the AWS Encryption SDK, developers can focus on the core of the application they’re building instead of the complexities of encryption. We’ve provided ready-to-use samples in the SDK for AWS customers who use AWS CloudHSM or AWS Key Management Service, however the open source SDK can be extended to support other key providers.
You can now easily upgrade the engine version on your existing ElastiCache for Redis clusters to utilize Amazon ElastiCache enhancements, including increased usable memory, improved synchronization and more efficient failovers. To achieve the smoothest performance on ElastiCache for Redis, we recommend you upgrade to the latest engine version that is compatible with Redis 2.8.24. The engine upgrade process is designed to make a best effort to retain your existing data and requires Redis replication to succeed. For more details and best practices on upgrading your ElastiCache for Redis engine version please refer to the ElastiCache Documentation.
AWS Device Farm now lets you add unmetered Android and iOS device slots to your account to run unlimited tests for a recurring monthly fee of $250 per device slot. Pricing for unmetered testing is fixed regardless of test type and device minutes used. Regardless of the number of device slots that you purchase, you can test on any number of devices and execution concurrency is simply limited to the number of slots. To learn more about device slots please visit our FAQ.
Our new AWS Professional Services Delivery Best Practices Bootcamp is designed to help our partners develop professional services competencies at their firms. In this intensive three-day bootcamp we share our collective professional services learnings derived from important customer projects to help enable partners to deliver large, successful engagements, and to ensure that collectively we deliver a very positive customer experience. Attendees should be focused on helping enterprise customers migrate applications to AWS and have at least six months experience working on AWS implementations. Attendees are required to hold a minimum of one Associate AWS Certification. Registration for this bootcamp is available at no cost to APN Premier Consulting and Advanced Partners. Learn more at Partner Training.
Communications are "redlining" in Brussels after three explosions struck the city this morning, two at the Zaventem international airport and one at the Maelbeek metro station.…
Ofcom wants to impose "strict new rules" on BT Openreach to improve its leased line services to businesses, in draft proposals today recommending faster installation times, lower prices for high-speed lines and greater access to its “dark fibre” network by competitors.…
GoDaddy has decided to get into the cloudy server caper.…
Telstra is experiencing another outage/brownout, this time reportedly impacting calls from mobile phones to lines handled by session initiation protocol (SIP).…
Starting today, you can monitor the capacity and performance metrics of your Spot fleets via CloudWatch. You can view metrics such as total desired, fulfilled and currently launching capacity of a fleet, in addition to monitoring aggregated EC2 instance metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic for a given fleet. These metrics enable you to get visibility into the usage and performance of your Spot fleets, and to dynamically scale in response to application load.
We are excited to announce availability of AWS Storage Gateway in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) region.
Verizon has laid out its own set of net neutrality rules the carrier says it will be imposing regardless of whether the FCC keeps authority over broadband service.…
You can now more easily set up or select your Identity and Access Management (IAM) role when connecting to an Amazon Redshift cluster from the Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) console. To streamline the process of setting up your connection to Amazon Redshift, Amazon ML now pre-populates an interactive drop-down menu of existing IAM roles that have an Amazon ML managed policy for Amazon Redshift, and other IAM roles that you might prefer. From the Amazon ML console, you have the option of dynamically creating a new IAM role that uses the Amazon ML managed policy, enabling you to quickly connect to your Amazon Redshift cluster.
AWS Storage Gateway is pleased to announce increased capacity for both gateway-virtual tape library (VTL) and gateway-stored volumes. This enables you to store more data in AWS without needing to run additional gateways, reducing your cost and operational overhead.
President Obama has promised to bring internet access to Cuba – by pre-announcing a deal best-pal Google has struck with the island.…
Tom Wheeler, chairman of US broadband watchdog the FCC, has given telcos a firm poke in the eye over their net neutrality doomsday predictions.…
Analysis George Osborne's budget may have provided a sprinkling of sweeteners for businesses and middle class savers alongside the headline-grabbing sugar tax last week, but details on digital infrastructure plans were distinctly lacking.…
Druva has extended its base in end-point data protection to cover cloud apps Box, Google Work and Office 365.…
Twitter turns 10 today and I, for one, would like to thank for sustaining my career by connecting me to important people and giving Reg writers an almost-car-wreck to chronicle.…
Reg Roadtrip Last week, The Register was invited on a tour of new installations comprising part of Australia's national broadband network (NBN).…
Microsoft has expanded its bug bounty program to include OneDrive.…
AWS Marketplace, which lists over 2,500 popular software products for sale by over 850 independent software vendors, has announced support for purchasing software products along new pricing dimensions. Until now, customers could only purchase software by the hour, the month or the year. Now, customers can purchase software from select AWS Marketplace vendors that is priced by the users created or provisioned, the hosts monitored or deployed, or the data processed or stored. This is a new level of flexibility for customers and software sellers, and is expected to further increase customer choice by enabling new products to be listed in the AWS Marketplace.
Australian incumbent telco Telstra has been forced to offer another day of free mobile data after a nationwide outage knocked out mobile services for eight million customers across the country.…
Reg roadtrip In the best possible world, all terrestrial internet connections would use fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP). Everything I've learned over years writing about broadband suggests that a fibre optic network has a longer working life and will scale to greater bandwidth than technologies that rely on existing or new twisted pair copper.…
Adobe is crediting a surge in cloud services with helping to drive its best financial Q1 take ever.…
University of Sydney tech Paul Szabo says Netgear routers provided by Australian telco Optus contain a vulnerability that allows attackers to change admin passwords without knowing the existing credentials.…
Amazon Kinesis Firehose, the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS, now supports auditing your API calls using AWS CloudTrail. AWS CloudTrail records AWS API calls for your account and delivers the log files to you. For more details, see Logging Amazon Kinesis Firehose API calls Using AWS CloudTrail.
To get started with Amazon Kinesis Firehose, please visit our website and Developer Guide.
Amazon Kinesis Firehose, the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS, now supports auditing your API calls using Amazon CloudTrail. Amazon CloudTrail records AWS API calls for your account and delivers the log files to you. For more details, see Logging Amazon Kinesis Firehose API calls Using Amazon CloudTrail.
To get started with Amazon Kinesis Firehose, please visit our website and Developer Guide.
Amazon VPC Endpoints for S3 is now available in South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions. Amazon VPC endpoints are easy to configure and provide reliable connectivity to Amazon S3 without requiring an internet gateway or a Network Address Translation (NAT) instance. With VPC endpoints, the data between the VPC and S3 is transferred within the Amazon network, helping protect your instances from internet traffic.
CK Hutchison’s Three network says each customer burns through 5GB of mobile data a month, on average, and around half of that is YouTube traffic*.…
Silicon photonics is one of the industry's hottest research fields, because it holds out the promise of accelerating on-chip communications without the extra heat that faster copper-based comms generate.…
nbn, the organisation building Australia's National Broadband Network, says the copper network it acquired from Telstra requires less remediation than it budgeted for.…
You can now launch larger, more cost-efficient R3 nodes when using Amazon ElastiCache in AWS China (Beijing) and AWS South America (Sao Paulo). R3 nodes are optimized for memory-intensive applications and have the lowest cost per GiB of RAM among all Amazon ElastiCache node types. For a full list of ElastiCache node types supported in each AWS region, please see this.
We’re excited to announce two new Amazon S3 lifecycle management policies to help you reduce cost and optimize performance.
To learn more, please visit the AWS blog.
Comcast has opened up its unlimited gigabit-a-second internet service to customers.…
You can now configure AWS IoT Rules to route device-generated data directly to Amazon Elasticsearch domains, enabling you to analyze the data, perform full-text or parametric search on the data, and visualize it with Kibana. The integration supports use cases such as, full-text search for device specific error codes, and device performance visualization in near real-time.
The city of Chattanooga in Tennessee has been told it cannot expand its broadband service to other counties.…
Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) is now available in the US West (Oregon) region.
This new Quick Start automates the deployment of Puppet on the AWS cloud. Puppet is a declarative, model-based configuration management solution from Puppet Labs that lets you define the state of your IT infrastructure, and automatically enforces that desired state on your systems. This Quick Start automates the deployment of a Puppet master and Puppet agents from scratch, using AWS CloudFormation templates. It deploys Open Source Puppet by default, but you can upgrade to Puppet Enterprise by registering with Puppet Labs and downloading a free trial to manage 10 nodes.
Oracle is brushing off challenges from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft to its core database business as a natural consequence of leadership.…
Nokia has pushed out the first high-capacity optical systems it has introduced since it absorbed Alcatel-Lucent and Bell Labs Electro-Optic Innovations – the latter being the source of the underlying technologies we're talking about today.…
Tasmania's telco woes could get even worse, with Basslink's boss hinting that the company might exit the telecommunications business.…
Oracle is blaming a strong dollar in cutting into its Q3 fiscal 2016 numbers.…
AWS Database Migration Service is now available to all customers. Using AWS Database Migration Service allows you to migrate databases to AWS easily, securely, and cost-effectively, with no downtime. There is no need to install any drivers or applications; you can begin a database migration with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. Because you only pay for the compute resources used during the migration process, a terabyte-sized database can be migrated for as little as $3.
You can now provision Amazon GameLift using AWS CloudFormation. This lets you use CloudFormation to provision a GameLift fleet of Amazon EC2 instances to host game servers on and a GameLift build, which consists of your game server executable and supporting assets, libraries, and dependencies. You can also provision GameLift aliases, which let you redirect player sessions to a fleet that you specify.
AT&T says it will open source the software it is using for an in-house network virtualization push.…
Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.1 includes 208 new improvements, fixes, and features to Amazon’s free, cross-platform 3D engine that enables you to create the highest-quality games, connect games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans with Twitch. Lumberyard Beta 1.1 introduces significant workflow improvements, the introduction of mobile support for iOS and Android, and extends the functionality of Twitch ChatPlay.
Amazon is to launch its AWS Database Migration Service today, in a bid to slurp big enterprises into the cloud by making it easier to ditch their legacy systems, according to reports.…
Analysis Three parent CK Hutchison is so keen to get its merger of O2 approved by Brussels, it’s willing to give up infrastructure and spectrum that a new entrant could use to create a fourth network.…
Comment Hybrid cloud is so yesterday – multi-cloud is where it’s at. Spreading your cloud apps between different providers is now becoming a trend.…
When the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission rode the fire and set out on a seven-month trip to Mars, it also carried a telecommunications upgrade for the Red Planet's satellite networks.…
Antennas can be tuned by changing their shape, and a group of University of Texas Austin researchers wants to use that simple phenomenon to help get rid of noise in silicon-scale antennas.…
nbnTM, the builder of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), says it now does not expect to make the 500,000 connections it's previously said would be made on the hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) network for which it paid Optus AU$800 million.…
You can now use Apache Sqoop 1.4.6, Apache HCatalog 1.0.0, an upgraded version of Apache Mahout (0.11.1), and upgraded sandbox releases of Presto (0.136) and Apache Zeppelin (0.5.6) on Amazon EMR release 4.4.0. Sqoop allows your Apache Hadoop MapReduce jobs (including Apache Hive and Apache Pig on MapReduce) to interact in parallel with SQL databases through JDBC. Mahout 0.11.1 now supports running your applications using Apache Spark. Zeppelin 0.5.6 includes GitHub integration and import/export support for Zeppelin notebooks. Additionally, Apache Spark is now configured with improved default settings for executors on nodes in your cluster. Dynamic allocation of executors is now enabled by default, and Amazon EMR will configure the memory per executor when creating your cluster based on the Amazon EC2 instance family of your core instance group. You can still override these default settings by using a configuration object or passing additional parameters when submitting your Spark application using spark-submit. Lastly, you can now use Java Development Kit 8 (JDK 8) for your runtime environment (the default for your cluster is JDK 7). However, please note that JDK 8 is not compatible with Hive.
Amazon API Gateway is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) AWS region.
AWS Lambda is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) region.
US carrier Sprint could be getting in on the upcoming FCC wireless spectrum auction after all.…
Amazon Aurora now allows you to assign a promotion priority tier to each instance on your database cluster. The priority tiers give you more control over replica promotion during failovers. When the primary instance fails, Amazon RDS will promote the replica with the highest priority to primary. You can assign lower priority tiers to replicas that you don’t want promoted to the primary instance. For more information on promotion tiers and failover logic, read the Amazon Aurora User Guide. To know more about Amazon Aurora, visit our product page.
Dropbox has sucked the vast majority of its data off Amazon's cloud servers and into its own custom storage centers. This shunting of customers' files has been dubbed Project Magic Pocket.…
The AWS SDK for C++ is now in Developer Preview. Since introducing the experimental version of the SDK in September 2015, we have made a number of improvements including:
To enable you to maximize your email authentication opportunities, you can now specify the MAIL FROM domain of emails you send with Amazon SES. The MAIL FROM address, also called the "envelope MAIL FROM," is the address that the sending mail server (Amazon SES) specifies to a receiving mail server to indicate the source of the message. Whereas you have always been able to specify the address that recipients see in their inboxes (the "From" address from the email header), this is the first time that Amazon SES enables you to specify the MAIL FROM domain.
Virgin Media is to put its legacy hosting biz Webspace out to pasture, after taking over the service via its acquisition of NTL back in 2006.…
An attempt by Filipino giant San Miguel Corporation to create a mobile phone business has gone flat.…
Cable ship the Ile de Re has made its first cut to the Basslink electrical cable, and residents of the Australian state of Tasmanians have been plunged back to the era when only one telco (Australia's dominant player Telstra) provided Internet backhaul to the mainland.…
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has proposed new rules that would bring ISPs in line with general data privacy laws and give citizens the right to opt out of their personal information being shared commercially.…
Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that makes it simple and cost-effective to deploy, operate, and scale session-based multi-player game servers in the cloud. GameLift, which launched a month ago for two regions in North America, can now provide optimal game server performance for players in Europe (gamelift.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com) and Japan (gamelift.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com).
AWS CodeDeploy is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) AWS region.
You can now restore a single table from an Amazon Redshift snapshot instead of restoring the entire cluster. This new feature enables you to restore a table that you might have dropped accidentally, or reconcile data from a table that you might have updated or deleted unintentionally. To restore a table from a snapshot, simply navigate to the “Table Restore” tab for a cluster and click on the “Restore Table” button.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs is enhancing security and visibility by adding support for AWS CloudTrail. You can now use AWS CloudTrail to track changes to your CloudWatch Logs resources such as your Log Groups, Log Streams, Metrics Filters, Subscription Filters, and Log Export Tasks.
Glitches at distributed denial-of-service mitigation biz Incapsula left the websites it defends offline twice on Thursday.…
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon CloudWatch Logs in the South America (Sao Paulo) region.
David Cameron has hinted a law change will be introduced in the budget next week to make it easier to erect mobile phone masts in “not spot” areas.…
US consumers love to moan about their internet providers, but in reality they enjoy superior LTE speeds to Europe. A vendor’s global survey of mobile broadband performance highlights some intriguing trends - and tips India to leapfrog into the future.…
A plan to end US government control of the top level of the internet was formally approved Wednesday when six different internet groups voted to send it on to the board of DNS overseer ICANN.…
Everything Everywhere (EE) says it has resolved a problem that left many Orange customers in the UK unable to access their email accounts.…
You can now use Memcached Auto-Discovery capabilities for PHP 7 on Amazon ElastiCache. For instructions on compiling the code for your client, please refer to the documentation on our GitHub repository here. For more information about node Auto-Discovery please see this.
OCP Summit Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft will today release a homegrown open-source operating system, based on none other than Debian GNU/Linux, for network switches.…
Qualcomm and Red Hat are busy porting the latter's enterprise-friendly flavor of Linux to Qualy's upcoming 64-bit ARM server processors, we learned today.…
Australia's dominant carrier Telstra has sniffed the software-defined winds and decided to label some services as software-defined networking (SDN), with Cisco's help.…
You can now use AWS Device Farm to run automated tests for your iOS apps written with the XCTest UI automation framework. The XCTest UI testing allows you to write automated UI tests in Swift or Objective-C. To get started, simply choose XCTest UI when creating a new test run and upload your UI test package using the steps outlined in the documentation. No configuration or modification to your app or tests is necessary. If you have any questions, please let us know in the discussion forum.
AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. These capabilities enable compliance auditing, security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting.
T2.nano, the smallest and cheapest Amazon EC2 instance type is now available in two new regions: EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney).
Basslink has announced that it has nailed down the location of its cable break and is about to start repairs. The company says the break is about 98 km from the Tasmanian coast.…
You can now create triggers that send notifications or automatically run code whenever a change occurs in an AWS CodeCommit repository. You can send notifications from Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) or invoke AWS Lambda functions in response to the repository events you choose (e.g. commit to a branch, branch or tag creation, and branch or tag deletion). This helps you customize and automate your development workflow.
Verizon will pay $1.35m for its use of "supercookies," but its customers will still have to opt out of the permanent trackers, under an agreement [PDF] reached with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday.…
In January, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of longer IDs for EC2 instances and reservations. As of March 7, 2016, newly created AWS accounts will use longer EC2 instance and reservation IDs by default in the following regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), and EU (Frankfurt). In other regions, new accounts will use longer EC2 instance and reservation IDs by default starting in mid-April 2016.
You can now download version 1.0.202 of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool. This version adds support for:
We have released four new features for our VPC VPN product in the Sao Paulo region. Starting today the VPN product now supports AES 256, SHA-2, additional Diffie Hellman groups, and NAT Traversal. In addition to those new features, you can also re-use your Customer Gateway (CGW ) IP address. You no longer need a unique IP address for each connection you create.
Something for the Weekend, Sir? “Ah, it’s sod’s law,” murmurs the person sitting next to me. I nod agreeably. It was inevitable.…
Open internet group Public Knowledge is accusing Comcast of violating net neutrality rules.…
+Comment WANdisco has active-active replication technology that's been used for disaster recovery and other business continuity-type uses. That's all well and good but not epoch-making or associated with major disruptions ... until now.…
Hutchison Whampoa’s Three network turns 13 today. The fifth mobile network to launch in the UK went live on … the 3rd of March 2003. Or 3-3-03.…
Europe needs a single telco regulator if over-the-top providers are to flourish across the continent, Google's public policy manager of EMEA, Theo Bertram, has said.…
Amazon Web Services has announced it will happily delivery 50TB of cloud data to your doorstep.…
Once again, it seems, submarine cables around Asia are in trouble.…
Cisco Partner Summit The emergence of containers will key a new renaissance for on-premise data centers that will bring many businesses away from public cloud services, says Cisco CTO Zorawar Biri Singh.…
One of Salesforce.com's European instances is enduring a lengthy un-planned PITSTOP incident – that's a Partial Inability To Support Totally Optimal Performance, a whit below our other status indicator of a Total Inability To Support Usual Performance or TITSUP.…
The company building Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) is once again denying the veracity of a leaked document.…
Now you can use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to receive notifications such as emails and text messages when the status of your AWS Directory Service directory changes to or from an “Active” state. Amazon SNS uses topics to collect and distribute messages to subscribers. When AWS Directory Service detects a change in your directory’s status, it will publish a message to the associated topic, which is then sent to topic subscribers.
AWS Config Rules allows you to create rules that continuously check the configuration of relevant AWS resources recorded by AWS Config, and notifies you when resources do not comply with these guidelines. Using the rules dashboard, you can track overall compliance status and troubleshoot specific resource configurations that do not comply.
You can now set the time zone for your Amazon Aurora database cluster to the local time zone for your application.
We are excited to announce that you can now reference security groups in a peered Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in both inbound and outbound rules. This functionality is supported cross-account so the two VPCs can be in different accounts. Support for security group references in a peered VPC simplifies configuration by controlling peering traffic via security group membership instead of CIDR ranges.
You can reference security group from a peered VPC using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, through SDKs. For more information see ‘Reference Peered VPC Security Groups’.
Today we are announcing support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) ClassicLink in the Sao Paulo region. ClassicLink allows Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in the EC2-Classic platform to communicate with instances in a VPC using private IP addresses, instead of public addresses through the Internet. We are also announcing support for ClassicLink DNS support. This feature enables support for DNS resolution of public hostnames to private IP addresses when queried over ClassicLink, making it easier for EC2-Classic instances to communicate with VPC resources using public DNS hostnames.
The Amazon CloudWatch Events service is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) AWS region.
Today, we are announcing support for EMC NetWorker 8.x with AWS Storage Gateway-Virtual Tape Library (VTL). You can now backup and archive directly to scalable, cost-effective, secure Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier storage using Gateway-VTL with NetWorker.
AWS CloudFormation has added support for four additional AWS services and several new features.
Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (WAM) is now available in two new regions: Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions.
We are excited to announce that Amazon Redshift is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region.
Amazon Kinesis Streams enables you to build custom applications that process or analyze streaming data for specialized needs. You can now use Amazon Kinesis Streams from the South America (Sao Paulo) Region, in addition to US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions. You can get pricing information for all the regions from our pricing page.
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