We are excited to announce that Amazon Pinpoint now supports Kinesis events streams to stream app and campaign analytics events via Kinesis streams or Kinesis Firehose streams and monetization dashboards to view monetization events sent from your mobile app.
AWS updated the AWS Customer Agreement on March 31, 2017.
We’re constantly looking for ways to make using AWS better for our customers. As part of this process, we updated our AWS Customer Agreement on March 31, 2017 to simplify the language, ensure it reflects our latest services and features, and further clarify how customers can use our services.
By continuing to use AWS Services, you agree to the updated terms and conditions in the AWS Customer Agreement.
We are excited to announce that Amazon Pinpoint now supports monetization dashboards to view monetization events in your mobile app and Kinesis events streams to support app and campaign analytics events via Kinesis streams or Kinesis Firehose streams.
Today, we made available the new Resource Groups Tagging API, which makes it easier for you to use tags to centrally organize, discover, allocate costs, and control access to AWS resources. The API’s five operations enable you to programmatically tag and untag resources, list resources with a specific tag, and list unique tag keys across multiple AWS services. With this new API, you can now programmatically use AWS resource group and Tag Editor functionality. This makes it easier for you to implement automated tools to manage, search, and filter tags and resources across AWS services.
We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Amazon Cloud Directory in the EU (London) Region. This allows your end users and applications to benefit from infrastructure located closer to them in London. Cloud Directory is now available in 7 regions worldwide.
We are pleased to announce that starting today you can configure the read and keep-alive idle timeout values used by Amazon CloudFront when communicating with custom origins. You can increase or lower either of these values based on the needs of your applications.
Amazon Inspector has added support for Proxy environments and CloudWatch metrics. With support for Proxy environments, you can now use Amazon Inspector to scan instances behind a Proxy for vulnerabilities. Support for Amazon CloudWatch metrics allows you to automatically populate your Amazon Inspector assessment metrics in CloudWatch. Using either the CloudWatch console or API, you can now view metrics on the number of assessments run, agents targeted, and findings generated.
Analysis Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy doesn't often tweet, but when he does it's usually to applaud the popularity of AWS's database migration service.…
Open source wasn’t supposed to matter in the cloud. After the Free Software Foundation’s failed attempt to rein in network-delivered software services, some wrung their hands and waited for the open source apocalypse. Instead of imploding, however, open source adoption has exploded, with ever more permissive licenses rising to largely eliminate the need to contribute anything back.…
AWS has published a new Quick Start that automatically deploys Enterprise Information Catalog from Informatica into a highly available, secure AWS Cloud environment in a few simple steps.
Today, Amazon CloudWatch is excited to announce that CloudWatch Alarms now has two new settings to configure alarms on metrics with sparse data or with low sample counts. With the first setting, you have the option to treat missing metric data as good (alarm threshold not breached), bad (alarm threshold breached), maintain the alarm state or use the current default treatment. For example, you can use the treat missing data as good setting for alarms on HTTPCode_ELB_5XX_Count metric. This will ensure that you get alerted only when there are consecutive ELB server errors and not when the errors are sporadic.
AWS Lambda is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region.
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create an API that acts as a “front door” for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any Web application. Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management.
Amazon API Gateway is also available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (London) AWS regions. Please visit our product page for more information about Amazon API Gateway.
AWS Storage Gateway has updated file gateway to add additional NFS mount options to your file share, and enable scanning for added and deleted objects in your mounted Amazon S3 bucket.
You can now tag your Amazon EC2 Instances and Amazon EBS Volumes upon creation. You can do this from the EC2 Instance launch wizard or through the RunInstances or CreateVolume APIs. By tagging resources at the time of creation, you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after resource creation. In addition, you can now set resource-level permissions on the CreateVolume, CreateTags, DeleteTags, and the RunInstances APIs. This allows you to implement stronger security policies by giving you more granular control over who has access to these APIs. You can also enforce the use of tagging and control which tag keys and values are set on your resources.
AWS Batch now supports Job Retries. Previously jobs would be marked as failed, if they experienced an error or the EC2 instance they were executing on failed. Now, you can define a retry strategy for a job as part of the Job Definition or when submitting a Job. By default, all jobs are attempted once and are marked as failed if they do not succeed. The retry strategy allows you to set a number of attempts for a job, which will result in a job being retried if it does not succeed. You can define up to 10 attempts for a job.
Read more about how to configure and use Job Retries in the AWS Batch documentation. Please visit our product page for more information on AWS Batch.
We are thrilled to announce new AWS Direct Connect locations. The new locations are Munich, Germany, Berlin, Germany, Prague, Czech Republic, and Zurich, Switzerland.
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) has added Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as a migration target. Amazon S3 is object storage with a simple web interface to store and retrieve any amount of data. Together, the two products give you the ability to extract information from any database supported by DMS and write it to Amazon S3 in a format that can be used by almost any application.
You can now simplify your AWS CloudFormation template authoring by inserting references to existing CloudFormation templates using Include Transform. Transforms are declarative statements within CloudFormation templates that instruct CloudFormation how to process your template. Include Transform instructs CloudFormation on where in the main template to inject CloudFormation templates snippets stored in S3 buckets. For example, you can maintain your commonly used resource definitions as template snippets and use Include Transform to retrieve and include them into your main template to create or update stacks. Visit here to learn more.
Amazon Connect is a simple to use, cloud-based contact center service that makes it easy for you to deliver better customer service at lower cost. This new service from Amazon Web Services is based on the same contact center technology used by Amazon customer service associates around the world to power millions of customer conversations. Setting up a cloud-based contact center with Amazon Connect is as easy as a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, and agents can begin taking calls within minutes.
VMware's revealed some demos of its planned hybrid cloud service running inside Amazon Web Services.…
NICE is pleased to announce the general availability of EnginFrame 2017, our powerful and easy to use web front-end for accessing Technical and Scientific Applications on-premises and in the cloud.
AWS has published a new Quick Start that automatically deploys Confluence Data Center into a highly available, secure AWS Cloud environment in less than 30 minutes.
AWS has expanded its HIPAA compliance program to include AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). You can now use AWS Database Migration Service to move data between your HIPAA-compliant applications, including protected health information (PHI) under an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS. DMS can be used both to migrate data between databases and for ongoing replication workloads to databases or data warehouses.
Amazon's brand-new UK T2 micro instances reached saturation point on Friday, with users being told the AWS service had run out of local capacity.…
You can now view AWS Lambda function policies from the AWS Lambda console. Previously, you needed to use the AWS CLI or SDK to see which services and accounts have permissions to invoke your Lambda functions. You can view Lambda function policies from the Triggers tab of any function.
Today, we made it easier for you to understand the permissions your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies grant with policy summaries in the IAM console. Instead of reading JSON policy documents, you can scan a table that summarizes the services, actions, resources, and conditions defined in each policy. This summary enables you to quickly understand the permissions defined in each IAM policy. You can find this summary on the policy detail page or the Permissions tab on an individual IAM user’s page. To learn more about policy summaries, see the blog post, Move Over JSON – Policy Summaries Make Understanding IAM Policies Easier, and the IAM documentation, Understanding Policy Summaries in the AWS Management Console.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports Fleet Auto Scaling to help you optimize your streaming costs.
You can now get an Amazon SNS notification when new Amazon ECS-optimized AMI releases are available.
The Amazon WorkDocs Administrative SDK provides API-based administrator level access to WorkDocs site resources. With the Administrative SDK, software vendors and IT organizations can set up their applications to work with WorkDocs. As a result, WorkDocs now allows you to use third party applications for content management, content migration, virus-scanning, data loss prevention (DLP), and eDiscovery.
Ever since Satya Nadella took over the reins at Microsoft, the Windows giant has been talking up how much it loves Linux – but it appears this hasn't trickled down to its OneDrive team.…
You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using Node.js v6.10.
Microsoft UK price rises that kicked in at the start of this year weren't bad news for everyone in the country – IT reseller Softcat saw software sales swell as customers purchased licences early to avoid the hefty hike.…
We are excited to announce that Amazon CloudWatch Events now supports input transformation of events before sending the events to targets. Using this the new feature, you can extract multiple key-value pairs from their event JSONs and transform the data to fit your needs. For example, you can transform AWS console login event JSON to a human readable message and attach it to an SNS topic for email notifications. Another use case for input transformer is to simplify nested event JSONs before sending to event targets such as SQS. The input transformer is a new addition to the existing list of three input configuration features - matched event, part of matched event, and a constant. You can use the input transformation through the console and PutTargets API in all AWS regions where CloudWatch Events is available.
The AWS Cryptography team has released the AWS Encryption SDK for Python. This new SDK joins the Java version launched in 2016 to make 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 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 SDK 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.
AWS CodeBuild is now available in the Asia (Tokyo, Singapore), EU (Frankfurt) and Australia (Sydney) Regions.
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.
The Amazon CloudWatch Events service now supports AWS Step Functions state machines as event targets. Amazon CloudWatch Events enables you to respond quickly to application availability issues or configuration changes that might impact performance or security by notifying you of AWS resource changes in near-real-time. You simply write rules to indicate which events are of interest to your application and what automated action to take when a rule matches an event. You can, for example, invoke AWS Lambda functions or notify an Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) topic. Now, you can also send the matching events to an AWS Step Functions state machine to start a workflow responding to the event of interest, such as managing copies of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots upon snapshot completion.
Microsoft cloud services have dived offline, taking down Outlook, Hotmail, OneDrive, Skype, and Xbox Live.…
Amazon CloudWatch Events now supports Amazon EC2 Run Command as an event target. This allows you to route system events that describe changes in your AWS environment to Run Command for processing. Run Command, a part of Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, provides a simple way of remotely executing common administrative tasks like running scripts, installing software, and managing patches. Now, you can perform ad-hoc actions through Run Command on your instances based on changes in your AWS environments. For example, you can now collect instance logs when instances in an Auto Scaling group are terminated by creating a CloudWatch Events rule with Auto Scaling as the source and Run Command as the target. To learn more, see the CloudWatch Events documentation here.
Amazon EMR now supports a variety of new Amazon EC2 Spot instance management features with instance fleets. Instead of specifying a specific Amazon EC2 instance type for an Amazon EMR instance group or Amazon EC2 availability zone for your Amazon EMR cluster, you can now provide a list of possible choices and allow Amazon EMR to automatically select an optimal combination. When creating clusters with instance fleets, Amazon EMR can now automatically provision Spot capacity across a variety of instance types, select optimal Amazon EC2 availability zones, and blend Spot and On-Demand capacity to minimize overall cost.
AWS Marketplace is pleased to announce the availability of a new Tax Calculation Service (TCS) for software vendors. If you are a software vendor that sells products on AWS Marketplace, you can now choose to enroll your paid product listings in TCS for automatic U.S. sales tax calculation on all of your AWS Marketplace transactions. For products enrolled in TCS, AWS Marketplace calculates and collects U.S. sales & use tax on software purchases based on settings and input provided by you. AWS Marketplace disburses collected taxes to you along with a detailed tax report to help you meet your tax obligations. This feature is available to any AWS Marketplace software vendor who determines that they have obligations to pay U.S. sales tax.
We are excited to announce availability of Amazon Elasticsearch Service in the Europe (London) and Canada (Central) regions. With the addition of these two regions, Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now available in 14 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Regions.
AWS is pleased to release a major update to the Magento Quick Start reference deployment.
Today, we are introducing RI Coverage Reports in AWS Cost Explorer to help you identify instance hours that are not covered by RIs, highlighting opportunities for savings.
You can now use upgraded versions of Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, CNTK, and Caffe, on the AWS Deep Learning AMI v1.2 for Ubuntu, including Keras, available in the AWS Marketplace. The Deep Learning AMI v1.2 for Ubuntu is designed to continue to provide a stable, secure, and high performance execution environment for deep learning applications running on Amazon EC2. The latest MXNet release (v0.9.3), included with this AMI v1.2, adds several enhancements including a faster new image processing API that enables parallel processing, improved multi GPU performance, and support for new operators. This AMI includes the following framework versions: Apache MXNet: v0.9.3; Tensorflow v1.0.0; Caffe release: rc5; Theano: rel 0.8.2; Keras: 1.2.2; CNTK: v2.0 beta12.0; and Torch: master branch. The Deep Learning AMI includes Jupyter notebooks with Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 kernels, Matplotlib, Scikit-image, CppLint, Pylint, pandas, Graphviz, Bokeh Python packages, Boto and Boto 3 and the AWS CLI. The DL AMI also comes packaged with Anaconda 2 and Anaconda 3 Data Science platform. You can start using the Deep Learning AMI release v1.2 in the AWS Marketplace, today.
Users of Microsoft's Azure storage service “may have experienced difficulties provisioning new resources or accessing their existing resources “ for over eight hours on Wednesday and Thursday . Azure storage was also tough to provision for a short time on Wednesday night.…
We are excited to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now supports enhanced Redis Backup and Restore with Cluster Resizing. In October 2016, we launched support for Redis Cluster with Redis 3.2.4. In addition to scaling your Redis workloads across up to 15 shards with 3.5TiB of data, it also allowed creating cluster-level backups, which contain snapshots of each of the cluster’s shards. With this launch, we are adding the capability to restore a backup into a Redis Cluster with a different number of shards and slot distribution, allowing you to resize your Redis workload. ElastiCache will parse the Redis key space across the backup’s individual snapshots, and redistribute the keys in the new Cluster according to the requested number of shards and hash slots. Your new cluster can be either larger or smaller in size, as long as the data fits in the selected configuration.
The Google Drive app for Windows has crashed and burned – after the tech genius hub pushed out an unfinished and faulty software update.…
Amazon WorkDocs now provides an Activity Feed so that you can easily track all activities related to your files and folders, and stay connected to what’s going on.
AWS Step Functions now gives you more flexibility in how AWS Lambda function error messages are handled in your workflow so you can improve the resiliency of serverless applications. Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. Building applications from individual components that each perform a discrete function lets you scale and change applications quickly. With Step Functions, you can create state machines to orchestrate multiple Lambda functions and build multi-step serverless applications.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our newest edge location in Zurich, our first edge location in Switzerland.
Microsoft's decided Azure needs virtual machines optimised for storage, so has given us all the new L-series to play with.…
So, you’re a developer with a great tech idea. You have a vision for a world-beating product, perhaps even one that defines a new category. But the journey from idea to execution is long, painful, and often expensive. The cloud can help developers realize their dreams while minimizing capital outlay. Here’s how.…
“We don’t use Google,” the CIO of a fairly major enterprise with a very recognizable brand told me some time ago. He runs the cloud component of his corporate IT on AWS and Microsoft’s Azure.…
Today, we are announcing enhancements to Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs) that make them more flexible and easy to use, helping you get the most out of your RI discount.
We are excited to announce the immediate availability of CloudWatch Events in our Canada (Central) region. The Canada (Central) region provides you with a new option for end users and applications benefiting from infrastructure located in Canada. With this new region, CloudWatch Events is now operating fifteen regions worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 40. You can learn more about our growing global infrastructure footprint at our Global Infrastructure page: http://ift.tt/1KAhruL.
Amazon WorkDocs now offers additional commenting and feedback capabilities, enabling richer and more meaningful collaboration and making it easier for users to centrally organize feedback in one place.
AWS has expanded its HIPAA compliance program to include AWS Direct Connect as a HIPAA Eligible Service. With the addition of Direct Connect, if you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS you can now transfer large amounts of data, including Protected Health Information (PHI), into and out of AWS in a cost-effective manner designed for your security. AWS Direct Connect offers several benefits for customers: it lowers bandwidth costs out of AWS (which is valuable for applications that have bulk data transfer requirements), it offers more consistent network performance over Internet-based connections for applications that require real-time data feeds, and it provides an alternative means to connect to the AWS cloud for customers who may have security or compliance policies that prevent VPN connectivity to the cloud.
Amazon Aurora is now available to customers in the AWS US West (N. California) region. This increases the number of available regions to eleven, giving you another option for database placement, availability and scalability.
Starting today, you can launch t2.small instances when using Amazon Aurora. The on-demand pricing for t2.small is half that of t2.medium, which was previously announced in November 2016. T2 instances are a cost-effective option for development/test environments and light production workloads. You can run your database on r3 class instances for larger-scale production deployment.
Today, we introduced the ListObjectParentPaths API for Amazon Cloud Directory. With this new API, you can query faster for all parent paths of an object across multiple dimensions, enabling you to get data with a single call.
Amazon Cognito is now available in the EU (London) region.
Promo Infrastructure as a Service can make your computing operations more scalable and agile. It may also be the first step to something larger.…
Google Next '17 Google has rolled out a slew of new additions to its Cloud platform, including public release of the Cloud Functions serverless code set.…
AWS Trusted Advisor now provides checks for ten new Service Limits for various AWS services including Amazon RDS, AWS IAM, and AWS CloudFormation. Trusted Advisor Service Limit Checks provide visibility to your current level of AWS service utilization and service limits. Trusted Advisor now also provides a new check for Amazon Aurora DB Availability which checks that your Aurora DB cluster has both private and public instances to help you ensure that your deployments are fault-tolerant. Finally, Trusted Advisor now provides new checks for EC2 Windows for the EC2Config Agent and the EC2 Windows PV Drive verion which helps to ensure your EC2 Windos instances have the latest versions installed.
AWS Trusted Advisor now provides checks for ten new Service Limits for various AWS services including Amazon RDS, AWS IAM, and AWS CloudFormation. Trusted Advisor Service Limit Checks provide visibility to your current level of AWS service utilization and service limits. Trusted Advisor now also provides a new check for Amazon Aurora DB Availability which checks that your Aurora DB cluster has both private and public instances to help you ensure that your deployments are fault-tolerant. Finally, Trusted Advisor now provides new checks for EC2 Windows for the EC2Config Agent and the EC2 Windows PV Drive verion which helps to ensure your EC2 Windos instances have the latest versions installed.
Amazon EC2 Rescue is a convenient, straightforward, GUI-based troubleshooting tool that can be run on your Amazon EC2 Windows Server instances to troubleshoot operating system-level issues and collect advanced logs and configuration files for further analysis. EC2 Rescue provides capabilities that help you simplify and expedite the troubleshooting of EC2 Windows instances. You can use EC2 Rescue in either Current Instance or Offline Instance Modes to perform a variety of diagnostic and troubleshooting tasks. EC2Rescue is available now. For more information on EC2Rescue visit our documentation page.
You can now configure custom domains for your APIs on Amazon API Gateway using SSL/TLS certificates provisioned and managed by AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). Now, you can request a certificate from ACM and associate it with your API in minutes using the API Gateway Console, APIs, and CLI/SDKs. Previously, you needed to procure and upload your own SSL certificates to API Gateway in order to configure a custom domain for your APIs.
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) can now automatically warm up your new dedicated IP addresses before you can send a high volume of emails. Dedicated IP addresses are Amazon SES IP addresses that are reserved exclusively for your email sending.
You can now use upgraded versions of Apache HBase (1.3.0), Presto (0.166), Apache Zeppelin (0.7.0), Apache Phoenix (4.9.0), and Apache Flink (1.2.0) on Amazon EMR release 5.4.0. These new versions of supported applications have various improvements and bug fixes. Additionally, you can now create Amazon EMR clusters with R4 instances, the next generation of Amazon EC2 Memory Optimized instances. Amazon EMR has also expanded support for M4 (General Purpose) and C4 (Compute Optimized) instances to AWS GovCloud.
Today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD, simplified on-premises user sign-in to the AWS Management Console. Now, you can enable your users to access and manage AWS resources by signing in to the AWS Management Console with their on-premises Active Directory (AD) credentials. This enables you to reuse your on-premises AD security policies such as password expiration and account lockout while still controlling access to the AWS Management Console and AWS resources.
You can now use upgraded versions of Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, CNTK, and Caffe, on the AWS Deep Learning AMI v2.0 for Amazon Linux, including Keras, available in the AWS Marketplace.
Google is pitching retailers on a total conversion of their floor, register, and warehouse systems to its Chrome, Android, and Cloud platforms.…
We are pleased to announce the launch of our newest edge location in Prague, our first edge location in Czech Republic.
You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor your Amazon AppStream 2.0 fleets. With CloudWatch metrics for AppStream 2.0, you can easily view the size and utilization of your fleet resources, and you can set alarms so that you can be notified when there is insufficient capacity to support your users, and react to changes in your fleet.
You can now invoke AWS CodeBuild during the ‘Test Action’ of your software release pipelines modeled in AWS CodePipeline. This enables you to easily run unit tests against your code.
We’ve updated our Big Data on AWS instructor-led training course. This 3-day course introduces cloud-based big data solutions such as Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and now Amazon Athena. The course teaches you how to create big data environments, how to process data, and how to leverage best practices to design big data environments for security and cost-effectiveness.
AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, your applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected.
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), known as AWS Microsoft AD, is now available in the Canada (Central) Region.
AWS Step Functions is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) region.
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) continues to make migrations easier by adding the ability to reload data for an individual table. When a database table is migrated as part of a larger migration task, you can choose to reload it while the migration is already running, without having to reload all tables in the task. This adds a new level of flexibility so you can complete a migration quicker than ever before. DMS can move data between heterogeneous database engines, giving you the freedom to migrate your databases unchanged to AWS or to replace expensive, restrictive commercial databases with cloud-enabled, cost-effective ones.
We are thrilled to announce new AWS Direct Connect location. The new locations is at Interxion Vienna (supporting AWS Frankfurt region).
Amazon Aurora now supports the sharing of encrypted snapshots between AWS accounts. This follows our recent announcement of encrypted database replication and snapshot copy across regions, and extends the Aurora security model to separate accounts that have shared encryption keys. The owner of the other account can copy the snapshot or restore a database instance from it.
We are pleased to announce new Amazon Aurora capabilities for global database deployment. Replication across AWS regions now supports encrypted databases, so you can scale read operations to a location close to your users, build a disaster recovery architecture that spans the globe, and easily migrate data from one region to another, all the while maintaining full encryption at rest and in transit.
AWS has published a new Quick Start that automatically deploys a Heptio Kubernetes cluster on the AWS Cloud in about 10 minutes.
The AWS Health APIs and the AWS Personal Health Dashboard give you a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources. The service provides relevant and timely information to help you manage AWS events in progress, and provides proactive notifications to help you plan for scheduled activities. You can use CloudWatch Events to detect and react to changes in the status of AWS Health events. Then, based on rules you create, CloudWatch Events invokes one or more target actions when an event matches the values you specify in a rule.
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports NFS version 4 lock upgrading and downgrading functionality. This new capability extends support in Amazon EFS for the NFSv4.1 and NFSv4.0 protocols by allowing you to run applications that upgrade a read lock atomically to a write lock and downgrade a write lock atomically to a read lock. One example is SQLite, a popular library that’s embedded into many applications and programming language tools like Python and PHP.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now offers dedicated short codes (5-, 6- digit phone numbers) in the US. If you are delivering notifications to telephone numbers in the US, you can now use a specific, customer-assigned SMS short code to send large marketing campaigns, Application-to-Person (A2P) messages like order updates and appointment reminders, and two-factor authentication text messages.
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports NFS version 4 lock upgrading and downgrading functionality. This new capability extends support in Amazon EFS for the NFSv4.1 and NFSv4.0 protocols by allowing you to run applications that upgrade a read lock atomically to a write lock and downgrade a write lock atomically to a read lock. One example is SQLite, a popular library that’s embedded into many applications and programming language tools like Python and PHP.
Accounting-as-a-service firm Sage is hiking its cloudy payroll software prices by half, The Register has learned.…
Microsoft's revealed Technical Preview 3 of Azure Stack, its forthcoming on-premises Azure-in-a-box effort, adding some new features, promising a continuous stream of other additions before final release and hinting at the pricing scheme.…
Amazon has provided the postmortem for Tuesday's S3 storage meltdown, shedding new light on what caused one of its largest cloud facilities to bring a chunk of the web down.…
Oracle DBAs who weren't so eager to trial 12cR2 in the cloud can now check it out on their own premises.…
Today might not be the best day to contemplate migrating to the cloud, given that yesterday's epic Amazon Web Services outage. But that hasn't stopped Google and Microsoft from issuing new offers to help you take on-premises workloads into their clouds.…
Like it or not, collaboration and file-sharing services like Dropbox have become embedded in corporate IT.…
The baffling mass logout of Google accounts last week was the result of accidental OAuth token invalidation, a cause Google acknowledged, but only to a subset of those affected.…
Explainer Nimble’s Cloud Volumes (NCV) store block data for use by Amazon or Azure compute instances, but the NCVs themselves are not stored in either Amazon’s Elastic Block Store or in the Azure cloud.…
The cloud's great for x86 CPUs, Windows and Linux.…
Tuesday's Amazon Web Services mega-outage knocked offline not only websites big and small, by yanking away their backend storage, but also knackered apps and Internet of Things gadgets relying on the technology.…
Oracle's added a new piece of hardware to its “Oracle Cloud at Customer” offering, in the form of the new Exadata Cloud Machine that runs Oracle databases on-premises with the very same interface as offered in the Exadata Cloud Service.…
