The US state of Washington is on the verge of passing a sweeping new set of net neutrality safeguards that would apply to all carriers within its borders.…
IBM's cloud faces a big test this week: turning something off without botching the job.…
The battle between the American government and Microsoft over emails on an Irish server has reached the US Supreme Court – and so far, the judges seem wary of Redmond's position.…
You can now use TensorFlow 1.5 and Apache MXNet 1.0 with the pre-built deep learning framework containers that are provided with Amazon SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker also now supports CUDA 9 drivers, for faster performance on Amazon SageMaker ml.p3 instances. Both updates to TensorFlow and MXNet provide improved performance features, among other details that can be found on the respective GitHub repositories for TensorFlow 1.5 and MXNet 1.0.0.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL major version 10. PostgreSQL 10 includes various new features including native table partitioning, support for improved parallelism in query execution, ICU collation support, column group statistics, enhanced postgres_fdw extension, and many more. Additionally, this release includes an upgraded version of the PLV8 extension and will have huge pages enabled by default.
We knew Virgin Media was going down the toilet – but not quite this way. For several hours on Tuesday, its business broadband has been offline in the UK, leaving folks unable to reach the internet.…
This new Quick Start deploys a highly available Drupal architecture on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 30 minutes. Deploying Drupal on AWS makes it easy to use AWS services to further enhance the performance and extend functionality of your content management framework. The deployment uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS).
You can now copy your Amazon AppStream 2.0 images across AWS Regions. Using the same image across AWS Regions makes it simpler to manage global deployments of your applications on AppStream 2.0. By deploying your applications in AWS Regions closer to your users, you provide them with a more responsive experience.
Ofcom has given all four mobile operators the go-ahead to bid in the forthcoming 4G and 5G auction, as well as Hull-based fixed wireless ISP Connexin and Airspan Spectrum Holdings, a subsidiary of US outfit Airspan.…
The tale of the Qualcomm and Broadcom merger has taken a turn for the surreal, with The Men In Black (aka the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States – CFIUS) taking an interest.…
MWC18 5G is – surprise, surprise – dominating this year's Mobile World Congress as more emphasis is heaped on how non-telco vertical sectors can use the fledgling technology.…
Verizon's enthusiasm for 5G and virtualization has spawned a virtual radio access network trial in the USA.…
The Australian government has fingered the next threat in the country's cryptography vs. policing debate: the IPv6 protocol.…
If you chose the Apple ecosystem because you don't trust Google – bad news. Apple has confirmed for the first time that it now uses Google servers to store third-party data from iCloud users.…
MWC18 Folk soon need not look up from their screens when boarding aircraft and wandering the aisles thanks to an alliance formed by OneWeb and Airbus to bring 5G roaming to the skies.…
MWC18 5G could, er, bring an end to populism, said Vittorio Colao, Vodafone’s chief executive during his keynote address at this year’s Mobile World Congress.…
Comment If Larry Ellison earned a dollar for every cloud-hyped phrase he made, Oracle's market share in cloud infrastructure wouldn't be the miserly 0.3 per cent – by Gartner's calculations – that it is today.…
Hyperconverged hopeful HyperGrid has pivoted again and now offers a service that assesses the properties of 100 million possible cloud configurations so you can send a workload to whichever one will suit it best.…
Cisco has used Mobile World Congress 2018 to tout a group of vendors working on open tech for the mobile radio access network.…
Facebook hopes to get parts of its Terragraph wireless comms platform standardised by the IEEE, and has recruited Nokia to help.…
DropBox has formally filed for its IPO – its initial public offering, its stockmarket debut, whatever you want to call it.…
Starting today, you can use AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) to enable users to find and get AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) credentials for multiple AWS accounts more easily.
You can now use Apache Hadoop 2.8.3, Apache HBase 1.4.0, Apache Flink 1.4.0, Presto 0.188, and Presto integration with EMRFS on Amazon EMR release 5.12.0. Additionally, you can now use upgraded versions of Hue (4.1.0), Apache MXNet (1.0.0), and Apache Phoenix (4.13.0). Hadoop 2.8.3 is the first version of Hadoop 2.8.x supported in Amazon EMR and contains many improvements and bug fixes to YARN and HDFS. HBase 1.4.0 adds new features including support for binary row keys in the REST client and an optional new HFile block structure for faster random read performance. Flink 1.4.0 features several new features including a support for aggregation on streaming tables and enhancements to Flink SQL. Presto now supports using the EMR File System (EMRFS) to performantly access data in Amazon S3. This enables you to use EMRFS features like consistent view, S3 server-side and client-side encryption, and EMRFS authorization with Presto.
Oracle Patch Set Updates contain critical security updates and other important updates. The January 2018 PSUs 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.
The Amazon WorkDocs web application has been redesigned to create a more productive collaboration experience for users. The new user interface allows users to better organize their files and makes it easier to share content with others. Users can now access common features, like editing, locking and unlocking files, viewing their favorites, and sharing content, all with a single click. They can also gain insights about how their files and folders are being used, and control who has access to their content quickly and easily. A new My Account panel gives users a central place to manage their profile and account settings
Ofcom has slashed the price BT’s Openreach can charge operators for superfast broadband, in a package of measures BT said will hit its bottom line to the tune of £120m next year.…
MWC Juniper's following Cisco's lead into carrier network automation.…
An American telecoms hardware shifter is fed up with US Customs officials slapping extra tariffs on its fiber-optic tech imports – all because the agents are classifying the IT gear as eyeglasses.…
RI coverage tracks the number of running instance hours that are covered by RIs, which allows you to understand your RI coverage at a high level (e.g., across all running hours) or dive into detailed information by filtering for a particular set of accounts, instance types, regions, tags, and more. From there, you can use the insights gleaned from this data to optimize your RI purchases for cost efficiency (e.g., by identifying instance hours that are consistently running at on-demand rates and purchase matching RIs).
Network Load Balancer can now distribute requests regardless of Availability Zone with the support of cross-zone load balancing. This feature allows Network Load Balancer to route incoming requests to applications that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones.
Today, we are pleased to announce that AWS DeepLens customers can now directly import models from Amazon SageMaker into AWS DeepLens. This improved integration makes model deployment much more efficient by consolidating the model import process down to a single click rather than the previous multi-step workflow, so that you can start generating predictions even faster.
After four years in purgatory the US government's internet broadband map is back - and it's pretty good.…
O2 UK is the latest operator to jump on the "5G test bed" bandwagon, with plans to trial the tech at the iconic former Millennium Dome in North Greenwich later this year.…
Arm has made public the designs to shove SIM technology into ever more connected gizmos by building an iSIM, along with a cellular modem and microcontroller, onto a single chip.…
A review of the government's delayed emergency services network intended to replace the national radio infrastructure with a 4G network has itself been delayed by more than half a year.…
The attorneys general of 35 US states on Wednesday signed an open letter calling for the quick passage of the Clarify Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act – with some qualifications.…
AWS CodePipeline, a continuous integration and continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates, is now available in the Europe (Paris) Region. CodePipeline works with AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy and many third-party services to help you build, test, and deploy your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process model you define.
AWS AppSync Preview introduces API key duration and has an expanded regional availability footprint now in the EU-West-1 (Ireland), AP-Northeast-1 (Tokyo), and AP-Southeast-2 (Sydney) regions.
This new Quick Start automatically deploys CloudStax Cache for Redis in a customizable Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 30 minutes.
You can now directly add and edit files in an AWS CodeCommit repository through the service console, CLI, and SDKs. Previously, you needed to install and configure a Git client to add or edit files in a repository. Now, you can quickly add and edit any of your CodeCommit repositories using only your browser.
The AWS Serverless Application Repository enables you to discover, deploy, and share serverless applications for a wide variety of use cases, making it easier and faster to get started with serverless computing in the AWS cloud.
UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove has promised to use the cash we no longer have to give to the EU to subsidise rural connectivity.…
Today, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is introducing support for using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service-linked roles, a new type of role that allows you to easily delegate permissions to AWS services.
Starting today, Inter-Region Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peering is available in AWS EU (London), EU (Ireland), EU (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo) Regions in addition to AWS US East (Northern Virgina), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon) Regions.
AWS Trusted Advisor now helps all customers better secure their data by providing the S3 Bucket Permissions check for free!
Charter still has to answer for selling New Yorkers short on their internet packages, a judge has decided, rejecting the cable giant's argument that the repeal of net neutrality rules in the US means the case is moot.…
AWS OpsWorks Stacks event sources are now available in Amazon CloudWatch Events, which you can use to trigger events or notifications.
Amazon Inspector now enables you to run security assessments for Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) and Runtime Behavior Analysis against your Amazon EC2 instances running Windows Server 2016. To run security assessments, simply install the Amazon Inspector Agent on the desired EC2 instance, configure your assessment in the Inspector console, and run your assessment.
Amazon CloudFront announces the addition of a new Edge Location in Seoul, South Korea bringing the total number of Edge Locations in Seoul to four. The addition of this newest Edge Location continues to expand CloudFront's capacity within the region allowing us to serve greater volumes of web traffic.
We are excited to announce the release of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Released February 2018) exam. This updated version of our AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam includes new services and architectural best practices, including the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework. The exam validates knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies. We recommend candidates have at least one year of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable and distributed systems on AWS.
We are hosting a beta for an updated version of our AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam. This beta exam is intended for individuals who have the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively develop and maintain applications on AWS. This new exam contains questions reflecting current AWS features, services, and best practices. Registration opens today and the beta exam is priced at 75 USD, which is 50% off the cost of the standard Developer Associate exam. You may take the beta exam from February 19 through March 16. Beta exam space is limited and registration will close when capacity is reached. Beta exam results are typically available 90 days (13 weeks) or less from the close of the beta exam. Individuals who pass the beta exam are eligible to receive a voucher to take the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam at 50% off (valid for 12 months).
The governent is looking towards the heavens in its bid to redeem rural broadband speeds, having exhausted all other options.…
Juniper Networks has taken the tube labelled 'multicloud' out of the paint-box and applied a liberal coat to the latest updates to its switching products.…
Chalk up another one for good old humans: Google's admitted that an automation failure was the root cause of a 93-minute outage of its Compute Engine in the us-central1 and europe-west3 zones of its cloud on January 18th, 2018.…
Customer certification delays resulting from its ongoing patent lawsuit brought by Cisco have delayed some of its revenue, but upstart Arista Networks still turned in a tidy result for Q4 2017 and for the full year.…
nbn™, the company building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has advised households connected to its hybrid fibre-coax network to expect a visit between March 7th 2018 and July 27th 2018.…
A US court has agreed to dismiss most of Cisco's IP defences in its long-running antitrust dispute with rival Arista Networks; the latter had previously described them as "breathtakingly broad, unprecedented and insane".…
Real-Time Insights on AWS Account Activity is a solution that can help you more easily monitor your AWS account activity in real-time. This solution automatically provisions the services necessary to record and visualize resource access and usage metrics for your AWS account(s). Real-Time Insights on AWS Account Activity is designed to provide a framework for visualizing metrics in real-time, allowing you to focus on adding new metrics rather than underlying infrastructure operations.
AWS GovCloud (US) joins 16 other regions where you can use Amazon Elasticsearch Service. With the addition of this region, Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now available in the following 17 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), AWS GovCloud (US), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Paris), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and China (Ningxia), operated by NWCD.
Mobile customers face a mid-contract price rise, with all four operators confirming they will hike fees by 4 per cent, 1 per cent above inflation.…
Today, Amazon GameLift introduces FleetIQ and Spot instances. Spot instances offer customers access to spare AWS computing capacity at savings of up to 90% compared to On-Demand prices. You can achieve these savings while maintaining high game server availability with the use of FleetIQ, a new feature of Amazon GameLift Queues that places new sessions on game servers based on player latencies, instance prices, and Spot interruption rates.
Another day, another unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 storage bucket spilling secrets onto the public internet.…
Today, we are excited to announce a new phonation tag that you can use with Amazon Polly, an API-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) service. With the new phonation Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) tag, you can produce softer speech with any of the Amazon Polly voices.
You can now record configuration changes to AWS WAF RuleGroups with AWS Config. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits, and a RuleGroup is a collection of predefined rules that you can add to a web ACL. Using Config, you can track historical changes to the rules and metrics associated with your WAF RuleGroups.
Starting today, you can use Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (WAM) to deploy your applications to Amazon WorkSpaces running Windows 10. Amazon WAM gives your users on-demand access to centrally managed desktop applications, and applications available through the Amazon Marketplace for Desktop Apps. Amazon WAM uses application virtualization technology to simplify application provisioning and provide fine grain controls to IT administrators, all from within the Amazon WorkSpaces console. With this update, you can now use Amazon WAM on WorkSpaces running Windows 7 or Windows 10.
Oracle is to gobble security outfit Zenedge for likely less than CTO Larry Ellison spends on tanning lotion each year an unspecified sum.…
The UK is performing so poorly in fibre penetration that it isn't even included in a European study.…
The flagship of Cisco's “intent-based networking” push, the Catalyst 9000 switch, is leaping out the door, and Switchzilla delivered other good news on it FY2018 Q2 earnings call.…
AWS CodeStar, which helps you quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. CodeStar provides a unified user interface, enabling you to easily manage your software development activities in one place. With CodeStar, you can set up your entire continuous delivery toolchain in minutes, allowing you to start releasing code faster. CodeStar also integrates with AWS Cloud9, a cloud-based IDE, for writing, running, and debugging code with just a browser.
Amazon Cloud Directory is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region.
SpaceX's plans to become a global ISP took a big step forward after Ajit Pai – the boss of America's comms watchdog, the FCC – gave his blessing for Elon Musk's biz to pop broadband-beaming satellites into orbit.…
This new Quick Start automatically deploys CloudStax FireCamp into a customizable environment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 30 minutes.
Analysis US lawmakers have weighed in on the FCC's controversial vote to scrap America's net neutrality rules, demanding information on the millions of fake comments submitted to the watchdog's public consultation on the decision – and asking pointed questions about how the federal regulator handled them.…
Ofcom's 5G spectrum auction is to go ahead in April after mobile operator Three lost its final legal challenge to force the regulator to change the bidding rules.…
Ofcom's 5G spectrum auction is to go ahead in April after mobile operator Three lost its final legal challenge to force the regulator to change the bidding rules.…
Qualcomm has fleshed out the details of what's going to land in the hands of the 18 carriers who last week signed on for “standards-compliant” 5G trials.…
A former IT administrator at the Canadian Pacific Railway has been jailed for 366 days after being found guilty of disrupting his former employer's network.…
You can now export and import your Amazon Lex chatbot schema to simplify the process of replicating your chatbot for development and deployment.
AWS AppSync Preview introduces new GraphQL features to enhance application development and removes the whitelist-only access to use the service.
An US court has trashed a patent at the center of Cloudflare's legal war with patent troll Blackbird Technologies – and thrown out the latter's case against the web biz.…
Today, DAX announced the SDKs for Python and .NET, support for new T2 instances in all supported regions. T2 instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance and can be more cost-effective for test and development workloads or production applications that require smaller caches. DAX is now general availability in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. DAX is already available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and South America (São Paulo) Regions.
Network Load Balancer, designed to handle millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latencies, is now available in the AWS EU (Paris) Region. Network Load Balancer is optimized to handle volatile traffic patterns while using a single static IP address per Availability Zone. It operates at connection level (Layer 4), routing connections to Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses based on IP protocol data. It also preserves the client-side source IP, allowing applications to see the IP address of the client that can then be used by applications for further processing.
Alternative network provider Hyperoptic today tested speeds of 10Gbps at the former Olympic village in east London.…
Amazon has confirmed a round of job cuts are taking place at its headquarters in Seattle, USA.…
nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's national broadband network, is the subject of endless controversy.…
You will never be able to own an official .home, .mail or .corp domain name or email address on the public internet.…
Vodafone has unveiled an eight-metre high "telescopic" 4G mast, intended to boost speeds in rural areas to 200Mpbs, following a trial in Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK.…
Today Amazon WorkMail launched support for the MAPI over HTTP protocol for Microsoft Outlook for Windows. This protocol improves connection stability between Microsoft Outlook and Amazon WorkMail. This provides users a faster overall connection to Amazon WorkMail, and a more responsive experience.
Microsoft Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013, and Outlook 2010 with the latest service packs will automatically switch to the MAPI over HTTP protocol the next time they are opened. Users with Microsoft Outlook 2007 will continue to connect to Amazon WorkMail using the RPC over HTTP protocol.
In December 2017, we announced that Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, and AWS Storage Gateway resources will have longer identifiers to support the ongoing growth of Amazon Web Services. Starting today, you can opt in to using longer IDs using APIs or the AWS Management Console.
Oracle has announced plans to roll out its self-described autonomous technology to all of its Platform-as-a-Service products.…
Vodafone has unveiled an eight-metre high "telescopic" 4G mast, intended to boost speeds in rural areas to 200Mpbs, following a trial in Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK.…
There's a race to apply machine learning to networking applications (especially for 5G), and as so often happens in periods of frenzied development, there's an emerging standardisation gap the International Telecommunications Union hopes to fix.…
EE is launching a "shoebox"-sized 4G antenna, which it claims could bring coverage to 580,000 UK homes in rural areas.…
You can now set up Service Auto Scaling using target tracking policies for your containerized services directly from the Amazon ECS console. With target tracking, you select a load metric for your service, such as “Average CPU Utilization” or “Request Count Per Target”, set the target value, and Auto Scaling adjusts the number of running tasks for your service to maintain the target value.
EE is launching a "shoebox"-sized 4G antenna, which it claims could bring coverage to 580,000 UK homes in rural areas.…
Today, Amazon GameLift introduces backfill functionality for FlexMatch, a powerful matchmaking service that enables you to match players together based on rules you define. Whether you choose to build your matches based on player skill, latency, or some other custom criteria, FlexMatch allows you to build robust and flexible matchmaking pipelines to suit your desired gaming experience.
You can now log all your API calls to AWS Shield 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 Shield and CloudTrail lets you determine which requests were made to the AWS Shield API, the source IP address from which each request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and more.
You can now query task metadata and container-level Docker statistics for tasks that are launched using the awsvpc network mode. This gives you a straightforward way to get environmental data such as task, container, and image ID, as well as check the status and health of running containers and tasks.
Starting today, you can migrate your existing application users to Amazon Cognito user pools more easily. User pools are managed user directories that can scale to hundreds of millions of users. Now, you can migrate users automatically the next time they log into your application while enabling users to continue using their existing passwords.
Both halves of the US Congress are now mulling draft laws that would ban American government workers from using phones, network switches and other gear built by Chinese communications giants ZTE and Huawei.…
Amazon Connect customers can now use Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) when using an Amazon Lex chatbot in their contact center, allowing them to personalize conversations with end users by modifying the chatbot voice. Using SSML tags, you can customize and control aspects of speech, such as pronunciation, volume, and speech rate.
You can now define a response for your Amazon Lex chatbot directly from the AWS Management Console. A response consists of messages dynamically selected from a group of pre-defined messages, populated by the developer. Messages in these message groups can be simple text, or you can use custom markup. In addition, you can also display a response card as part of the response. The responses capability simplifies building dynamic conversations with Amazon Lex. In addition, you can use Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) in a text response.
The AWS Deep Learning AMIs now come with TensorFlow 1.5, and Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.4, with support for NVIDIA CUDA 9 and cuDNN 7 drivers. AMI users can now take advantage of the mixed precision training on the V100 Volta GPUs powering EC2 P3 instances. In our earlier tests for TensorFlow 1.5 on Volta, training the ResNet-50 benchmark with synthetic ImageNet data in FP16 mode on a p3.8xlarge instance was 1.8x times faster than training with TensorFlow 1.4.1.
The PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is now available in 10 regions. With the addition of the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region, you have a new option for database placement, availability, and scalability.
Amazon DynamoDB encryption at rest helps you secure your application data in Amazon DynamoDB tables further using AWS-managed encryption keys stored in AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Encryption at rest is fully transparent to the user with all DynamoDB queries working seamlessly on encrypted data. With this new capability, it has never been easier to use DynamoDB for security-sensitive applications with strict encryption compliance and regulatory requirements.
AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) for easing workload migration to AWS is now available in the AWS EU (London) Region.
Starting today, Amazon Inspector is available to customers in the US East (Ohio) region. With the addition of this region, Inspector is available in US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo).
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments address the high availability requirements of enterprise-grade production workloads. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Multi-AZ in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. This new option leverages SQL Server Mirroring technology, with additional improvements.
The Amazon Polly plugin for WordPress enables you to easily voice your website content – so readers can listen to news and articles directly from the site. Jointly developed with our partner, WP Engine, this sample plugin also enables you to publish podcasts directly from your site and make them available for listeners who are on-the-go.
Today, AWS announced the ability to filter load balancers and target groups by tags in the Elastic Load Balancing Console. Tag-based filtering enables you to view only the load balancers and target groups that you are responsible for monitoring. It also reduces chances of making configuration changes to a wrong load balancer or target group not owned by your group. For example, if you have tagged your development stage load balancers as Stage: Dev and production stage load balancers as Stage: Prod, you can filter on tag Stage: Prod to view only the production stage load balancers.
Starting today, Amazon GuardDuty makes continuous security monitoring and threat detection easier with two multi-account feature enhancements. First, GuardDuty has increased the number of possible associated accounts from 100 to 1,000 member accounts. Second, GuardDuty administrators can now manage custom threat intelligence lists in the GuardDuty master account and apply updates in up to 1,000 member accounts. In addition, customers can manage all GuardDuty account configurations for up to 1,000 member accounts from a single, security-owned GuardDuty master account.
A European commissioner raised concerns in a private letter to mobile operators and the network infrastructure industry – seen by The Register – that the 5G project is not working out according to plan.…
TalkTalk plans to bring full fibre speeds of 1Gbps to three million premises, by creating an independent company with a total investment of around £1.5bn.…
The latest iteration of Cisco's Global Cloud Index has painted a picture of an even more massively oligarchic future cloud.…
The community working to develop open network function virtualisation has crafted a solution certification suite and published its associated test software.…
The AWS Instance Scheduler is a solution that enables customers to easily configure custom start and stop schedules for their Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances. The solution is easy to deploy and can help reduce operational costs for both development and production environments. Customers who use this solution to run instances during regular business hours can save up to 70% compared to running those instances 24 hours a day.
Australia's internet service providers have responded to discounts in the Connectivity Virtual Circuit (CVC) by buying more bandwidth for their users, but the news isn't all good because they're still offering just 1.53 Mbps per user.…
Using AWS Elemental MediaLive, you can now export and import live channel configurations as JSON. This enables you to create a backup of channel settings and to quickly and easily create new channels with the same settings, even in different regions or accounts.
Tech giants including Microsoft, Google and Apple have given a proposed US law on overseas data sharing the thumbs-up.…
Three's campaign for a spectrum cap on mobile operators has been deemed "misleading" by the Advertising Standards Authority for implying it was run by an independent body.…
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Change Data Capture (CDC), allowing replication to various database targets. CDC is supported on all versions of Enterprise Edition, and on SQL Server 2016 SP1 and later for Standard Edition. To see how to enable and disable CDC, please visit our documentation.
The MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is now generally available. It offers enhancements such as JSON support, spatial indexes, and generated columns, and is up to 5x faster than MySQL 5.7.
AWS Systems Manager now allows you to specify repositories (repos) for Linux in the patch baseline, apply non-OS security updates through patching, and patch SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).
Beginning today, you can use the Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming APIs to create CNAME records when you register instances of your microservices, and your microservices can discover the CNAMEs by querying DNS for the service name. Additionally, you can use the Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming APIs to create Route 53 alias records that route traffic to Amazon Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs).
We are excited to announce the new ListShards API which makes it easier for your Kinesis Data Streams KCL applications to scale. Many Kinesis Data Streams customers use the KCL to process records from their data streams. Starting in version 1.9.0 or later, key KCL API functions now use the ListShards API, which supports a 10x higher call rate limit compared to the DescribeStream API, which was used for these functions in earlier KCL versions.
Amazon Connect is now one of the AWS services under ISO Compliance for the ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 standards. AWS maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed. You can download copies of the AWS ISO certificates and use them to jump-start your own certification efforts: AWS ISO 9001 certificate, AWS ISO 27001 certificate, AWS ISO 27017 certificate, and AWS ISO 27018 certificate.
AWS Direct Connect provides private, high bandwidth connectivity between customers’ network and AWS Cloud. The traffic sent over AWS Direct Connect connection stays within AWS private network instead of traversing the public internet.
Version 0.2 of Model Server for Apache MXNet (MMS), an open source library for Apache MXNet, is now available for packaging and serving deep learning models for inference at scale. You can use MMS to serve ONNX models created with any ONNX-supporting deep learning framework, such as PyTorch, Caffe2, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, or Chainer. ONNX, the Open Neural Network Exchange format, is a community initiative driven by AWS, Facebook, and Microsoft, with growing support across additional deep learning frameworks and platforms. To get started serving ONNX models, see MMS ONNX Serving documentation.
Starting today, M5 instances are available in the AWS US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Canada (Central) Regions, in addition to AWS US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Europe (London), Europe (Paris) and EU (Ireland) Regions.
Starting today, C5 instances are available in the AWS US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Canada (Central) Regions, in addition to AWS US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Europe (London), Europe (Paris) and EU (Ireland) Regions.
AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET version 2.0.0 (beta) enables developers to record and emit information from within their applications to the AWS X-Ray service. This version supports .NET Core 2.0. You can get started in minutes using the repository on Github.
Cisco's again asked owners of Adaptive Security Appliances or Firepower Threat Defense Software to patch, after it turned up a new DDOS problem that last patches didn't address.…
Now you can use Amazon Cloud Directory to manage hierarchical data for applications that are subject to System & Organization Control (SOC), ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, or ISO 9001 compliance.
The IT department's transition from being an on-premises owner and manager of an IT equipment stack which provisions and plans data compute, storage and networking to being a responsive services provider is a 2018 priority for many.…
Once upon a time, you’d go into the office, do your work during the day at your desk, then leave everything behind and go home. Well, end users would - IT workers have been lugging home the on-call laptop since the dial-up modem was invented.…
US standards outfit CableLabs has added another piece to the Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 jigsaw, with the release of the key MAC layer specification for the standard.…
Brit-based comms colossus Vodafone is mulling snapping up wedges of European networks owned by American telecoms giant Liberty Global.…
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Google-parent Alphabet suffered a $3bn loss of the final quarter of 2017 after handing over $9.9bn to Uncle Sam due changes in the US tax system.…
Amazon.com said its Q4 2017 net sales reached $60.5bn, an increase of 38 per cent from the $43.7bn reported by the tech giant during the same period a year earlier.…
Amazon Aurora Parallel Query improves the performance of large analytic queries by pushing processing down to the Aurora storage layer, spreading processing across hundreds of nodes.
The US state of New York has unveiled a massive new project to provide broadband for virtually all of its residents.…
Fujitsu's revenues have been hit by weak mobile phones and base station sales. Servers and storage were flat while PC sales rose a little.…
BT's Openreach has unveiled plans to connect three million premises to full fibre by 2020, up 50 per cent on its previous goal.…
AT&T lobbied hard for tax cuts in the US – and that effort has rather paid off. Thanks to the President-Trump-championed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the telco revealed this week it rounded out 2017 with some stonking financial figures.…
