AWS Batch Available in US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland)

AWS Batch is now available in the US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) regions. 

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CoreOS chief decries cloud lock-in

Adds Kubernetes and etcd as services in Tectonic

CoreOS Fest  CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi spent his morning on Wednesday biting the hands that fed attendees at his company's conference, CoreOS Fest 2017.…

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Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Locations in Atlanta, Columbus and Toronto

AWS Direct Connect now has three new locations in the Digital Realty ATL1 and ATL2, Atlanta facility, Cologix COL2 Columbus, OH facility, and Allied 250 Front St W, Toronto, Canada facility supporting the US East (Virginia), US East (Ohio) and Canada (Central) AWS Regions respectively. Customers in these cities can now establish a dedicated network connection from their premise to AWS. 

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Use Amazon Cloud Directory Typed Links to Create and Search Relationships across Hierarchies

Starting today, you can create and search relationships across hierarchies in Amazon Cloud Directory by using typed links. With typed links, you can build directories that can be searched across hierarchies more efficiently by filtering your queries based on relationship type. Typed links also enable you to model different types of relationships between objects in different hierarchies and to use relationships to prevent objects from being deleted accidentally.

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Amazon Lightsail available in Asia Pacific Regions

Amazon Lightsail is now available in four Asia Pacific Regions – Tokyo, Mumbai, Singapore, and Sydney. 

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Speaking in Tech: Cloud Native is quite the needy boyfriend

Plus: Surviving AirBnB in Slovakia, BA outage, are you normal? and more

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Does Microsoft have what it takes to topple Google Docs?

The Office cloud deconstructed

If you were to start a business today, would you bother buying desktop software for productivity and collaboration? Probably not, you'd employ some software option delivered as a service. For enterprises with a history of legacy, the move to online versions of on-prem is trickier but is being done.…

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Europe to splash €120m on free WiFi for ~8,000 villages and cities

Liberté, égalité, connectivité

The European Parliament, Council and Commission have all decided that the in-El Reg's-view-inexplicable WiFi4EU project is a fine idea worthy of €120m to ensure “every European village and every city with free wireless internet ac­cess around the main centres of public life by 2020."…

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Announcing New AWS Certification Specialty Exams and Benefits

Introducing two new AWS Certification Specialty exams and our new AWS Certification Benefits Program. 

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Millimetre wave.. omigerd it's going nowherrr.. Apple, you say?

Guess who's joined the bandwagon...

Comment  Apple may not be the invincible force it once was in mobile, but it is still unrivalled in its ability to scatter stardust over new technologies – just ask the companies which struggled to push Wi-Fi Calling or wireless charging into the mainstream before the iPhone maker came along. Now it has kindled new sparks of enthusiasm, or perhaps hype, around millimetre wave spectrum by applying for an experimental licence to test high frequency bands in the US.…

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Azure Portal rejects Firefox after certificate revocation SNAFU

C*ck-up not conspiracy – Redmond says 'OCSP stapling' has come undone

Microsoft's Azure Portal has become hostile to some clients, especially the Firefox browser.…

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New 'Beaver' web server has exactly ONE user outside China

And none of those in China show anything while they wait for government paperwork

Netcraft's monthly survey of web-facing computers has turned up an oddity: a new web server called “Beaver” that's used by exactly one web site outside China.…

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Arista-cats win some, lose some against Cisco

Upside: it could be all over by September

Both Cisco and Arista have claimed victory in the latest instalment of their intellectual property lawsuit.…

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Amazon EC2 P2 Instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions

We are excited to announce that Amazon EC2 P2 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions.

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Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows you to use your VPC security groups to control network traffic

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows you to control network traffic between your streaming instances and the resources in your VPC by using security groups. Security groups provide granular, network-level access controls to streaming instances, and you can use them to manage users’ access to databases, license servers, file shares, or application servers from the streamed applications they use. 

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AWS Step Functions Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)

AWS Step Functions is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.

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Three new features added to IAM policy summaries to make it easier for you to understand and troubleshoot your IAM policies

Today, we added three new features to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy summaries to make it easier for you to understand and troubleshoot your IAM policies. Policy summaries now include the resources defined in the policy to make it easier for you to see the list of resources to which the policy controls access. You can also see which services and actions are not granted by a policy. This allows you to view the remaining actions available for a service with limited access to help you find actions you may want to include in the policy. Finally, you can now see unrecognized services and actions in policy summaries, which makes it easier for you to identify potential typos in your policies. To learn more about these new features in policy summaries, see the blog post and IAM documentation.

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AWS CodeCommit is Now Available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and EU (Frankfurt) Regions

CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.

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T-Mobile goes Apple/Google route by separating phone numbers and devices

'Digits' marks a shift for the phone industry

T-Mobile is taking a leaf out of the tech industry book and separating phones from their numbers.…

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Amazon QuickSight now supports Federated Single Sign-On using SAML 2.0

Starting today, Amazon QuickSight customers can use Federated Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML 2.0 to access QuickSight. This allows users to sign in to their Identity Provider portals with existing credentials and then access QuickSight with a single click, without having to enter any QuickSight-specific account names or passwords.

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US citizens complain their names were used for FCC robo-comments

Allegedly astroturfed Americans speak out over net neutrality filings

Fourteen Americans (with the help of an advocacy group) are complaining to the FCC that their names were used without permission to file fake comments on the proposed net neutrality overhaul.…

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Microsoft court victory prompts call for data-grabbing regime

Legislators mull over modernizing legal process for seizing cloud data

The Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism on Wednesday held a hearing to explore the government's inability to have its cake and eat it too.…

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Venezuela increases internet censorship and surveillance in crisis

Latin American country going the China route

Venezuela is increasingly censoring its internet and expanding online surveillance of citizens.…

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Capita payments service Pay360 goes TITSUP

'Major incident' in data centre

Capita Pay360 service, which allows small businesses and councils to accept online transactions such as paying parking fines, has gone down in the UK and Ireland due to a "major incident" in its data centre.…

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Amazon WorkDocs now supports file lock and unlock when you’re editing content

Amazon WorkDocs now allows you to lock files for editing, and unlock them when you’ve finished making changes. Locking a file ensures that your edits are not overwritten by others, and it eliminates the need to coordinate between users when making changes. This makes it easier to use Amazon WorkDocs for collaborative editing.

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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports Linux Huge Pages

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports Linux kernel huge pages for increased database scalability. The use of huge pages results in smaller page tables and less CPU time spent on memory management, increasing the performance of large database instances. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports multiple page sizes for PostgreSQL versions 9.4.11 and later, 9.5.6 and later, and 9.6.2 and later.

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April 2017 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) Are Available for Amazon RDS for Oracle

The Oracle April 2017 Patch Set Updates (PSU) are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle. To learn more about the Oracle PSUs supported on Amazon RDS, visit the Amazon RDS patch update documentation.

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April 2017 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) Are Available for Amazon RDS for Oracle

The Oracle April 2017 Patch Set Updates (PSU) are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle. To learn more about the Oracle PSUs supported on Amazon RDS, visit the Amazon RDS patch update documentation.

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NSA takes one-two punch to the face

Two sets of judges rule for citizens and against government

The US National Security Agency has been hit by two legal losses that may put the last part of its controversial spying program on US citizens under threat.…

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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Server-Side Encryption is Now Available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region

You can now use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) server-side encryption (SSE) integrated with the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) in the US East (N. Virginia) region. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service for reliably communicating between distributed software components and microservices – at any scale. You can use Amazon SQS to take advantage of the scale, cost, and operational benefits of a managed messaging service. The addition of server-side encryption allows you to transmit sensitive data with the increased security of using encrypted queues. 

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Amazon Inspector expands security assessment support for RHEL and CentOS

Amazon Inspector is pleased to announce expanded support for security assessments on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, CentOS 6, and CentOS 7 within Amazon EC2. Amazon Inspector now supports security assessments for these operating systems on versions 6.2 through 6.9, 7.2, and 7.3. You can now run assessments for Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE), Amazon Security Best Practices, and Runtime Behavior Analysis on these supported versions. To run security assessments, simply install the Amazon Inspector AWS Agent on the desired EC2 instance, configure your assessment in the Amazon Inspector console, and run your assessment.

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Comcast accused of siccing lawyers on net neutrality foe

Activists say they got cease and desist threat for pointing out astroturfing

An activist group says it was threatened by Comcast lawyers after it pointed out the cable giant's efforts to astroturf the FCC with fake comments on net neutrality.…

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Announcing Second Edge Location in Seattle, Washington for Amazon CloudFront

We are excited to announce a new edge location for Amazon CloudFront in Seattle, Washington. Each new edge location helps improve performance and availability for end users of your application.

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AWS Storage Gateway now provides retrieval of archived virtual tapes in as little as 3-5 hours, adds additional virtual tape information, and adds cached volume cloning

For tape gateway users, you can now retrieve archived virtual tapes into your Virtual Tape Library (VTL) in as little as 3-5 hours. Prior to this launch, tape retrieval could take up to 24 hours. This faster access can help you speed up recovery of archived data. Additionally, to help you manage your virtual tapes, we have enhanced the tape gateway console and API to show the date and time a tape was created, and the amount of data written to each virtual tape.

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Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Available in AWS GovCloud Region

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. 

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Now Supports Cost Allocation for Snapshots

Today we are announcing that Amazon EBS now supports cost allocation tags for EBS snapshots within the AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboard. Using cost allocation tags, you can now classify snapshot costs to match the needs of your business for better transparency and visibility. You can use this feature to allocate snapshot costs to internal teams or to provide accurate reports for customer billing. With this additional information, you can better manage your snapshot costs.

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Announcing New Direct Connect Locations in Marseille, France and Warsaw, Poland

AWS Direct Connect now has two new locations in Interxion, Marseille, France and Equinix, Warsaw, Poland supporting the EU (Ireland) and EU (Frankfurt) AWS Regions respectively. Customers in these cities can now establish a dedicated network connection from their premise to AWS.

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Bankrupt school ITT pleads 'don't let Microsoft wipe our cloud data!'

Define irony: For-profit school wants unpaid bill forgiven

The estate of bankrupt US trade school ITT Technical Institutes is today asking a court to stop Microsoft from erasing its cloud data.…

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House GOP takes crack at ISP privacy bill

US lawmakers try to clear up FTC control over data collection

The US Representatives who just weeks ago repealed privacy rules for ISPs now want to enact a new set of restrictions.…

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An Easier Way to Manage the List of Resources Returned by Your Queries Using a New Pagination Parameter in the Resource Groups Tagging API

Today, the Resource Groups Tagging API introduced a pagination parameter to the GetResources action that makes it easier for you to manage lists of resources returned by your queries. Using this parameter, you can list resources that are associated with specific tags or resource types, and limit result sets to a specific number per page. Previously, you could list resources only by the number of tags. With this release, you also can return all resources that meet your query criteria in a single call using the updated AWS CLI.

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Constellations and MIMO to take fibre to a future beyond the terabit

Nokia Bell Labs' Dr Laurent Schmalen explains how networks can find a new gear

Interview  A technology that first hit the mass market in 1990s-era modems running over voice networks will soon be boosting submarine fibre speeds around the world.…

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Telecoms fail in UK takes down passport scanners in Australia

Airport chaos as check-in counters revert to archaic manual processes

International airline passengers in Australia and New Zealand have been told that problems processing passports at airports today was caused by a telecoms failure in the United Kingdom.…

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Public Cloud makes it to Africa for the first time

Microsoft plants a flag before Google, AWS and IBM

Microsoft has announced it come 2018 it will offer Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 from data centres in the South African cities Cape Town and Johannesburg.…

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Google cloud glitch hits at Beer O'Clock Friday, fix coming Monday

Cloud SQL backups being 'forced' instead of automated for 60 hours or more

POLL  Google's got a problem with its Cloud SQL service – about seven per cent of instances using the service's first-generation code aren't backing up properly.…

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Amazon EC2 F1 instances and Amazon Linux AMI

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports application deployment on Amazon EC2 F1 instances. F1 instances are easy to program and come with everything you need to develop, simulate, debug, and compile your hardware acceleration code. To learn more about F1, visit Amazon EC2 F1 Instances. 

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Deploy GitHub Enterprise on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start

This new Quick Start automatically deploys GitHub Enterprise on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, to provide a configurable infrastructure for your coding and deployment tasks. 

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Amazon Athena adds API/CLI, AWS SDK support, and audit logging with AWS CloudTrail

You can now run queries on Amazon Athena via the REST API using the AWS SDK available in Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, and C++. Please visit the API reference and CLI guide to learn more. To help you get started, you can use new code samples that illustrate running & stopping a query, creating, listing and deleting saved queries, and listing your query execution history. With the current release, you can now run queries via the console, JDBC driver or using the API. We have also updated the JDBC driver to support the new APIs. 

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What's 'amazing', cloudy and splattered in red ink? It's quarterly Salesforce results time

Sales bounce by a quarter for Q1... oh the vanity

Just when you’d thought Salesforce had quit its habit of posting quarterly losses, the biz swung back into the red during its first quarter of 2017/18 - on the back of bumper growth.…

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Windows Server's footprint shrunk to reduce Azure bills

On-prem rules say Windows Server barely runs in 32 GB, but cloud is another matter

Microsoft's quietly revealed that it's shrunk Windows Server's footprint, at least when you run it in Azure.…

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Amazon Polly introduces a new German female voice, Vicki

You now have the choice of a second female German voice, Vicki, in addition to the German male voice Hans, and female voice Marlene. Vicki is a high-quality, TTS voice of a similar fluency and naturalness as the German voice of Alexa, able to fluently and intelligibly pronounce Anglicisms frequently used in German texts, including fully inflected version.

With the addition of this new female German voice, there are now a total of 48 voices in Amazon Polly’s Text-to-Speech portfolio. All 48 Amazon Polly voices are accessible worldwide from the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland). 

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AWS Lambda Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region

AWS Lambda is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.

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AWS Training and Certification Portal Now Live

AWS Training and Certification can help you get more out of the AWS Cloud. And now, the AWS Training and Certification Portal allows you to access and manage your training and certification activities, progress, and benefits – all in one place. Previously, you had to rely on multiple websites to find and manage training and certification offerings. Now you have a central place where you can find and enroll in AWS Training, register for AWS Certification exams, track your learning progress, and access benefits based on the AWS Certifications you have achieved. This makes it easier for you to build your AWS Cloud skills and advance toward earning AWS Certification. 

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Amazon CloudWatch Events Service is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) region

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of CloudWatch Events in our AWS GovCloud (US) region. With this new region, CloudWatch Events is now operating at sixteen AWS regions worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to forty two. You can learn more about our growing global infrastructure footprint at our Global Infrastructure page.

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AWS CodePipeline Adds Integration With Nouvola

You can now use Nouvola as a test action in your software release pipelines modeled in AWS CodePipeline. This lets you automate performance and release testing for your applications so issues are caught earlier and code is tested against real-world traffic scenarios before it’s released to production. Nouvola offers real-world performance and load testing for web, mobile, API and IoT applications so you can release better code faster.

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Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers persistent storage for end users’ files, backed by Amazon S3

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now provides users with persistent storage, backed by Amazon S3. Users can access a home folder on their streaming instance, and save content in this folder for use between streaming sessions. Users can also download and upload files in the home folder directly from a web browser, when connected to a streaming session. All files are stored in an S3 bucket, which is automatically created in your AWS account.

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Deploy HashiCorp Nomad on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start

This new Quick Start automatically deploys HashiCorp Nomad, which is a distributed cluster manager and scheduler for deploying applications, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

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Amazon Lightsail now available in 5 additional Europe, US AWS Regions

Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Lightsail in 5 additional AWS Regions in Europe, US East, and US West – Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Ohio, and Oregon. 

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Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Adds New Automation Action-Types

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Automation adds stack creation and deletion, sleep, image copy, and tagging action-types.  

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Run Your Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server Always On Availability Groups in the AWS Cloud More Easily by Using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory

Today, we made it easier for you to run Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server Always On availability groups in the AWS Cloud. With AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD, you can now migrate additional Windows workloads such as SharePoint and SQL Server Always On availability groups without the complexity of building and maintaining your own Active Directory (AD) infrastructure. Using the AD security features announced recently, you can provide single sign-on (SSO) to Microsoft SharePoint by using AWS Microsoft AD, and improve the security of SQL Server Always On availability groups.

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Speaking in Tech: WTH is NVMe? Basically it just makes things go a bit quicker

Plus: Is America anti-innovation?

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Clouds' crazy kinks can spin your wheels and lead you to mistakes

You're not helping by allowing server sprawl and ignoring backup, though

You're probably cocking up the cloud, but clouds themselves are part of the reason why.…

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Azure becomes double DaaS-aster zone as VMware loads up

Microsoft's weird DaaS licensing melts away when it has a sniff of Azure usage

VMware's got the green light to deliver virtual Windows desktops and packaged apps from Microsoft's Azure cloud.…

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Amazon GameLift Metrics Now Available in Amazon CloudWatch

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor all of your Amazon GameLift resources and react to emergent issues in real-time. With CloudWatch, you can create at-a-glance dashboards to better understand player behavior and game performance. You can also create custom alarms to help identify issues before they impact your players. Amazon GameLift metrics are automatically available in CloudWatch as long as your fleet is active. 

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AWS CodeDeploy Adds File Handling Support

You can now choose how AWS CodeDeploy handles files on an instance that were not part of the previous deployment. Previously, CodeDeploy would fail the deployment when it detected a discrepancy between the files present at a target location and those in the last successful deployment. Now, you can choose how CodeDeploy responds (e.g., fail the deployment, retain the content, or overwrite the content) when encountering such files for each deployment.

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Quick Start Update: Deploying MongoDB on the AWS Cloud

AWS is pleased to release a major update to the MongoDB Quick Start to support MongoDB versions 3.2 and 3.4. This update also includes enhancements to the networking infrastructure for the MongoDB deployment through the use of bastion hosts and managed NAT gateways. 

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AWS X-Ray Makes AWS Lambda Request Tracing Generally Available

AWS X-Ray’s integration with AWS Lambda is now generally available for all customers. You can use AWS X-Ray to trace requests made to your serverless applications built using AWS Lambda. This enables you to gain insights into the performance of serverless applications, allowing you to pinpoint the root cause of issues so that you can address them. 

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Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Available in China (Beijing) Region

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is now available in the China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet. 

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Microsoft Azure almost doubles infrastructure cloud market presence

Familiarity – and dual-cloud strategies – breeds growth

Competition for enterprise IT spend is intensifying with Microsoft and Google applying pressure to AWS.…

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16 terabytes of RAM should be enough for anyone. Wait. What?

AWS is cooking virty servers with 16TB but thinks we'll also need clusters packing 34TB

Amazon Web Services is working on new instance types that will offer either eight or 16 terabytes of random access memory.…

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Announcing the availability of the new Amazon S3 console

Today we are announcing the general availability of the new Amazon S3 console to all users in all regions. The new Amazon S3 console provides a new user interface, a streamlined user experience, and introduces user interface support for two new S3 features – object-level tagging and storage analytics. Many S3 users having been experiencing the new Amazon S3 console by opting-in as part of our original launch of the new Amazon S3 console at re:invent 2016. Now all S3 users get this experience without any additional work. 

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Announcing New Direct Connect Locations in Philadelphia, PA and Newark, NJ

AWS Direct Connect now has two new locations in Philadelphia and Newark supporting the US East (Northern Virginia) AWS Region. Customers in these cities can now establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to AWS. 

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Introducing Auto Scaling Resource-Level Permissions

You can now define AWS Identify and Access Management (IAM) policies to provide control over which Auto Scaling resources users can access, and the actions that they are permitted to perform on these resources. Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and allows you to scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down automatically according to conditions you define. You can use Auto Scaling to help ensure that you are running your desired number of Amazon EC2 instances. With resource-level permissions, you can enable different users within an organization, such as application developers and IT specialists, to access and modify Launch Configurations and Auto Scaling groups with appropriately configured permissions. 

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Announcing New CloudWatch Metrics for VPN Tunnels

Today we are announcing the availability of CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections. Each VPN connection now collects and publishes a variety of tunnel metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. These metrics will allow you to monitor tunnel health, activity, and create automated actions. 

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Google Cloud boss to speak at... hang on, Nutanix conference?

Storage firm is going hybrid cloud

+Comment  Nutanix has booked Google Cloud supremo Diane Greene to talk at its .NEXT 2017 conference, leading to speculation that a deal – possibly around hybrid cloud – is being cooked up between the two.…

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Dell EMC's Azure Stack: Get thee behind me, Microsoft subscriptions

Redmond chucks a lifeline. Not to you, to Big Box Co

Dell EMC will release a four-node Azure stack. This potentially places Microsoft's cloud-in-a-can within reach of the SMB. The subscription model thing could get in the way.…

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T-Mobile USA sued by parents after their baby dies amid 911 meltdown

'Ghost' calls overload lines, preventing babysitter from getting through for help – suit

A Texas mother is suing T‑Mobile USA, alleging technical issues with the carrier prevented her child from getting urgent medical care, which led to his death.…

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10Mbps universal speeds? We'll give you 30Mbps, pleads Labour in leaked manifesto

Oh go on, we'll throw in a soft-boiled Brexit

The UK Labour Party has pledged a 30Mbps universal broadband speed by 2022, according to a draft leaked version of its manifesto.…

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DSL inventor's latest science project: terabit speeds over copper

Spare your hypegasm, this is a research roadmap

John Cioffi, known as the “father of DSL”, reckons we're nowhere near the limit of copper transmission speed, delivering a presentation claiming Terabit performance is feasible.…

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US Air Force networks F-15 and F-22 fighters – in flight!

Talon HATE pod squirts data over three protocols between previously-incompatible aircraft

The United States Air Force has successfully networked its F-22 Raptor and F-15 Eagle aircraft under the “Talon HATE” program.…

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ITC upholds finding that Arista infringed on two Cisco patents

Cisco 'preserving market position at expense of competition,' says Arista

The US International Trade Commission has upheld a judgement that Arista Networks infringed two Cisco Systems patents on networking equipment - the latest round in a long-running legal battle between the companies.…

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There be dragons? Why net neutrality groups won't go to Congress

Campaign risks total annihilation for its fear of politics

Special report  When Obama pushed the FCC into extending Title II rules over US internet services in 2014, I described the President as "writing out a cheque he knew he couldn't cash".…

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AWS CodeDeploy is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS CodeDeploy is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) region. CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and instances running on-premises. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications. You can use AWS CodeDeploy to automate software deployments, eliminating the need for error-prone manual operations, and the service scales with your infrastructure so you can easily deploy to one instance or thousands.

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Elastic Load Balancing: Account Limits API

We are pleased to announce that Elastic Load Balancing now provides an API that can be used to access service limits for Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers. Prior to the availability of this API, customers needed to contact AWS Support or use Trusted Advisor in order to check their existing service limits for load balancers.

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CloudFormation Support for AWS WAF on ALB

Starting today you can provision AWS WAF on Application Load Balancer resources using AWS CloudFormation.

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AWS Organizations now makes it easier to view email addresses of member accounts in your organization

Today, we made it easier in AWS Organizations for you to retrieve and view the email addresses of member accounts in your organization. You can use email addresses as another way to identify individual accounts in your organization.

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AWS Schema Conversion Tool Exports from SQL Server to Amazon Redshift

AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) can now extract data from a Microsoft SQL Server data warehouse for direct import into Amazon Redshift. This follows the recently announced capability to convert SQL Server data warehouse schemas.

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Simplify Migration and Improve Security of Active Directory–Integrated .NET Applications by Using AWS Microsoft AD

Today, we enabled additional Active Directory (AD) features in AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD, that make it easier to migrate more .NET applications to the AWS Cloud. You can now improve the security of .NET applications by using group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) and Kerberos constrained delegation (KCD) enabled features. With gMSA, you can narrow permissions to your account, thereby reducing risks by not using built-in user accounts with full server control. gMSA makes it easier to manage .NET applications by creating and rotating the account password automatically, and a single account can be used by one or more application servers.

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Phil Collins and supergroup exposed as cloud investors

There's something cloudy in the air tonight. Oh Lord

Against all odds, middle-of-the-road rocker Phil Collins – along with ex-Genesis pals – are some of the unlikely backers behind UKCloud.…

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Misery loves company so ServiceNow's built anonymous chat-rooms for the recently p0wned

'Jakarta' release also adds software asset management, multi-cloud wrangling and more

Cloud wrangling giant ServiceNow has announced the new stuff that will land in its next release.…

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Simplify Migration and Improve Security of Active Directory–Integrated .NET Applications by Using Managed AD

Today, we enabled additional Active Directory (AD) features in AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as Managed AD, that make it easier to migrate more .NET applications to the AWS Cloud. You can now improve the security of .NET applications by using group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) and Kerberos constrained delegation (KCD) enabled features. With gMSA, you can narrow permissions to your account, thereby reducing risks by not using built-in user accounts with full server control. gMSA makes it easier to manage .NET applications by creating and rotating the account password automatically, and a single account can be used by one or more application servers.

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Well this is awkward. As Microsoft was bragging about Office at Build, Office 365 went down

TITSUP: Total Inability To Stand Up Products

Build  Microsoft scrambled to get its Office 365 service back online after the cloud productivity suite was hit with a mid-day outage.…

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Microsoft is on the edge: Windows, Office? Naah. Let's talk about cloud, AI

At its dev conference, Redmond is all about Azure, bots, Azure and also Azure

Build  At the Build 2017 developer conference today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella marked a Windows milestone – 500 million monthly active users – and proceeded to say very little about Windows or Office.…

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AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region

Starting today, customers running Amazon WorkSpaces in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region can use AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps to purchase pre-packaged applications on a monthly subscription basis.

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Microsoft's Cosmos DB adds Graph support to cloud database manager

DocumentDB evolves to add Apache Tinkerpop support

BUILD  Microsoft has announced Cosmos DB, an evolution of its existing DocumentDB NoSQL database service, with new support for graph and key-value database types.…

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Amazon WorkMail now offers an SMTP gateway for sending email

Amazon WorkMail now supports the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol for sending email, which allows you to use an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) capable email client to send email through WorkMail. Previously, you could use an IMAP email client to access your WorkMail email, but to send email, you still needed to configure an SMTP end point using a service like Amazon Simple Email Service. With this new feature, you can use your IMAP email client to access and send email through Amazon WorkMail directly. 

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ServiceNow's new CEO thinks IT can spare us from corporate re-orgs

He also feels cloud is yet to make a dent in the enterprise – but AI might fix that

ServiceNow's new CEO John Donahoe has introduced himself to the company's community at its Knowledge17 conference in Orlando, Florida. Along the way he introduced some new machine learning-fueled automation tech and offered his opinion that IT departments can put a stop to future corporate re-organization efforts.…

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AWS X-Ray Available in Europe (London) and Canada (Central) Regions

AWS X-Ray is now available in the Europe (London) and Canada (Central) regions.

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AWS CloudTrail Adds Data Event Delivery to Amazon CloudWatch Logs

AWS CloudTrail now enables you to send S3 data events recorded by CloudTrail to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for search, alerting, or additional analysis. CloudTrail data events allow you to record detailed S3 object-level API activity, such as the AWS account of the caller, IP address of the API call, and time of the API call. Previously, only management events could be delivered to CloudWatch Logs. Now, both management events and object-level Amazon S3 data events can be delivered to CloudWatch Logs. For example, you can now create alarms and receive notifications when you create, modify, or delete a file in your S3 bucket.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Available in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.

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Amazon CloudFront adds new Edge Locations in Tokyo, Japan and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas

We are excited to announce new edge locations for Amazon CloudFront in Tokyo, Japan and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Each new edge location helps improve performance and availability for end users of your application.

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USAspending.gov data available via Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

USAspending.gov data is now available for anyone to access via Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). USAspending.gov is a government website launched in 2007 to provide access to the federal spending data mandated by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. USAspending.gov includes data on all spending by the federal government, including contracts, grants, loans, employee salaries, and more. This data can be used by researchers, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in analyzing how federal tax dollars are spent. Learn more about how to access the data on the USAspending.gov on AWS landing page and on Jeff Barr's blog.

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Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Available in Additional AWS Regions

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and EU (London) regions.

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Of mice and migrations: How a rodent's DNA maps to architectural complexity

Don't cloudify your IT infrastructure lightly

Managers of enterprise systems are being bombarded by messages touting the supposed benefits of cloud for cost reductions and greater IT “flexibility.”…

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AWS and Ionic Introduce Mobile Web and Hybrid Application on GitHub with Exported Mobile Hub Project for Deploying Apps and Mobile Backend

AWS and Ionic, one of the leading open source frameworks for building mobile applications using standard web technologies (JavaScript, Angular, CSS), have introduced a sample application on GitHub that shows how to quickly and easily build AWS backend services for Ionic applications.

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Amazon Chime Improves End-User Management by Adding the Ability to Claim Your Domain, and to Integrate with Microsoft Active Directory

Amazon Chime has added two new capabilities to simplify end user management. First, you can now claim your corporate domain to use with Amazon Chime, which means that any user that signs up for Amazon Chime using an email address in your corporate domain is automatically added to your Amazon Chime account. Second, you can now configure Amazon Chime to use your Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for user management and authentication. This allows you to manage your users individually or in groups, easily assign Amazon Chime subscriptions to specific users or groups in your organization, and to apply the password policies you’ve already set to Amazon Chime. End users don’t need to manually create an Amazon Chime account, and they can log in using their existing corporate credentials.

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AWS CodeDeploy Now Integrates With Elastic Load Balancing

AWS CodeDeploy now integrates with Elastic Load Balancing and provides greater control on managing your deployments across EC2 instances.

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Limit Increase for IPSet Conditions for AWS WAF

We are announcing today a limit increase to the number of CIDR or IP Address entries customers can have within an IPSet condition in an AWS WAF Rule. We have increased the limit from 1,000 to 10,000 entries per condition. Customers who want even larger lists of IP addresses can create multiple rules. With this limit increase customers can now import larger IP reputational lists and customer who have multiple IPSet rules can now consolidate them into fewer rules. As you know, IPSet Rules are used to specify which web requests customers want to allow or block based on the IP addresses that the requests originate from.

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AWS WAF on Application Load Balancer now Integrated with AWS CloudTrail

You can now log all your API calls to AWS WAF on Application Load Balancer (ALB) through AWS CloudTrail, the AWS service that records API calls for your account and delivers log files to your Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail logs can be used to enable security analysis, track changes to your AWS resources, and aid in compliance auditing. Integrating AWS WAF and CloudTrail lets you determine which requests were made to the AWS WAF API, the source IP address from which each request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and more.

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Hybrid cloud: The 'new' but not-new IT service platform

The combination effect

Today, the term hybrid IT is typically used when talking about bridging IT on multiple premises. But this is an oversimplification. Buried deep within any hybrid IT discussion will be a need to talk about standards, compliance and some difficult decisions about how we even conceptualize our approach to IT.…

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Microsoft Azure capacity woes hit UK customers. Yes, you read that right

Clients: We need more compute. Redmond: 'Go to Canada'

Exclusive  Microsoft's public cloud business is experiencing growing pains – fresh deployments are being held up by insufficient rack space in the UK data centres that host Azure.…

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Amazon Cognito Available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

Amazon Cognito is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region.

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Amazon QuickSight Adds Support for Amazon EMR with new Presto and Apache Spark Connectors

Today, we added two new connectors for Presto and Apache Spark. Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against datasets ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Like Presto, Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed processing system commonly used for big data workloads. Amazon QuickSight customers can now connect to Presto and Spark (with LDAP authentication enabled) running on Amazon EMR 5.5.0 or above, or self-hosted clusters on EC2 and analyze their big data at interactive speed. Customers can choose to directly query against the Presto and Spark engines, or ingest their data into SPICE for faster visualization.

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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports PostgreSQL Minor Versions 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11 and 9.3.16

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support minor versions 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11 and 9.3.16. Highlights include fixes to prevent data corruption issues in index builds and in certain write-ahead-log replay situations, and many other bug fixes and improvements.

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AWS Lambda Raises Default Concurrent Execution Limit

AWS Lambda’s default concurrent execution limit has been raised to 1,000 concurrent function executions. Lambda uses a default safety throttle for the number of concurrent executions across all functions in a given region per account. Concurrent executions refers to the number of executions of your function code that are happening at any given time.

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The AWS Deep Learning AMI for Amazon Linux Now Supports Caffe2

You can now use Caffe2 with the AWS Deep Learning AMI for Amazon Linux, available on the AWS Marketplace. The addition of Caffe2, a project led by Facebook, allows developers another choice of deep learning frameworks on the AWS platform. To learn more about Caffe2, visit the GitHub repository.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Application Version Lifecycle on the AWS Management Console

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports lifecycle management of your application versions on the AWS Management Console. Application version lifecycle management allows you to auto-delete the undeployed application versions based on application version count or application version age. Previously, you could only configure application version lifecycle policy through the APIs, SDKs, EB CLI, and AWS CLI. Now, you can set the lifecycle settings through the AWS Management Console.

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AWS Storage Gateway is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region.

The AWS Storage Gateway service seamlessly enables hybrid cloud storage between on-premises environments and the AWS Cloud. It combines a multi-protocol storage appliance with highly efficient network connectivity to deliver local performance with virtually unlimited scale. You can use it in remote offices and datacenters for hybrid cloud workloads involving migration, bursting, and storage tiering, as well as to connect Amazon EC2-hosted applications to data in Amazon S3.

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The AWS Directory Service Console Is Now Available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Languages

Today, AWS made the AWS Directory Service console available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. The availability of the Directory Service console in five languages—it was already available in English and French—reduces the need to have bilingual staff that can administer Directory Service directories.

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AWS EdStart for EdTech Startups

AWS EdStart, a program that helps startup educational technology (EdTech) companies build teaching and learning solutions on the AWS Cloud, is now available. The AWS EdStart program helps EdTech startups by providing AWS promotional credits and access to the same scalable technology used by established companies.

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AWS CodeDeploy now integrates with Elastic Load Balancer

You can now specify a load balancer for performing in-place deployments with AWS CodeDeploy. AWS CodeDeploy now integrates with Elastic Load Balancer and provides greater control on managing your deployments across EC2 instances.

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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is Now a HIPAA Eligible Service

AWS has expanded its HIPAA Compliance Program to include Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service for reliably communicating between distributed software components and microservices – at any scale. If you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS, you can now use Amazon SQS to build HIPAA-compliant applications and store and transmit messages between healthcare systems, including messages containing protected health information (PHI). Information about HIPAA eligible services on AWS can be found at our HIPAA Compliance page.

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New Quick Start deploys SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition on the AWS Cloud

This new Quick Start automatically deploys SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, to help configure and manage high-availability SQL Server clusters.

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