EE is still the best mobile network in the UK, but the others are catching up and Three is the one to watch.…
Microsoft's Service Deployment and Operations (SDO) team has detailed plans to modernise the company's own data centres and says the result will be lots – but not all – workloads in the cloud.…
Microsoft on Monday is struggling to correct a service outage that has left many customers unable to access various features of the company's Azure cloud services.…
Ericsson's February 2014 agreement with Ciena has paid off in Australia, with the two to work on a major optical network upgrade for incumbent Telstra.…
Microsoft has signalled it will harmonise the feature set of the cloudy and on-premises versions of its BizTalk Server.…
The world's submarine cables are subject to a brand-new threat: sharks.…
The new CEO of US mobile operator Sprint says he's planning aggressive moves to regain market share starting next week, but the big changes he has in mind will make job cuts unavoidable.…
In an effort to woo buyers in China, Apple has inked a deal to store Chinese customer data in Chinese servers for the first time.…
You can now deploy and manage Ruby 2.1 applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. You can use Elastic Beanstalk with Ruby 2.1 on Passenger Standalone or Puma with Nginx as reverse proxy.
To get started, please see the walkthroughs for deploying Rails and Sinatra applications on Elastic Beanstalk. Or, you can launch a sample Rails application directly by clicking here.
For more information on AWS Elastic Beanstalk:
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Microsoft's Visual Studio Online services for software developers are in the midst of a total outage that has lasted for more than four hours. The Redmond giant has blamed a database snafu.…
Advertisers on global ad network Facebook can now pinpoint exactly which devices and computers people use to buy stuff through online ads.…
AWS OpsWorks now allows users to define environment variables per application. Instead of creating a custom recipe and managing environment variables as Chef attributes, you define the environment variables on each app and OpsWorks takes care of securely storing and sending the environment variables from your OpsWorks app definition to your instances and adding them to the application server context. All you have to do is reference the environment variables in your application's code using the methods defined in the Java, Ruby, PHP, and Node.js application servers. The environment variables are passed to the application server during instance setup and can be updated on each application deployment. Environment variables can also be defined as protected values, so that they cannot be read by OpsWorks users. For example, a user can set separate environment variables for database endpoint, username, and password. The password environment variable can be defined as a protected value, so it cannot be viewed in the console, SDK or CLI and is only made available to the defined application.
For more information, see the blog.
One of the most powerful men in the US Senate has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) tour all of America to hear citizens' thoughts, face to face, on net neutrality.…
EE customers are struggling to access the mobile network.…
Vodafone has been chided for misleading customers with a telly ad that wrongly implied that the majority of Blighty's emergency services' staff personally subscribed to the mobile operator.…
All of Blighty's mobile phone networks are providing great coverage and you can make a successful voice call nearly 100 per cent of the time. And the source of this wonderful news? Why, it's … er, the mobile phone networks themselves. Oh.…
Just in time for the back-to-school season, Google has made a schoolwork grading tool for teachers.…
Canadian ISP Shaw is experiencing a "nationwide outage affecting internet browsing", according to the polite phone robot put in place to discourage affected punters from overwhelming support systems.…
This new Quick Start Reference Deployment covers the implementation of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 in a highly available architecture on the AWS cloud. The automated solution used to deploy the Quick Start is provided by an AWS CloudFormation template that allows you to choose a highly available architecture that is sized for medium or large environments based on your input. Additionally, the foundation for this environment will utilize the Active Directory Domain Services and Microsoft SQL AlwaysOn Availability Group Quick Starts, which are deployed in a highly available architecture across two Availability Zones. This Quick Start Reference Deployment discusses how the Microsoft SharePoint environment is built so that you can deploy the automated solution or customize the provided AWS CloudFormation template to meet your own requirements.
This Quick Start is the fifth in a series of new Reference Deployments that describe in words and diagrams the architectures for implementing popular enterprise solutions on AWS. They also include the AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployments.
To get started with Microsoft SharePoint 2013 on AWS, use the following resources:
The AWS SDK for Python (Boto) now supports Python 3 with full backwards-compatibility. The SDK now works with Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4. Download the latest build from PyPI or GitHub, and start using AWS for your Python 3 projects today!
For additional information, visit the Boto documentation page.
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Elastic Load Balancing now allows you to tag your load balancers to simplify the administration of your AWS resources.
A tag is a user-defined label that helps you organize your resources into groupings such as application names or projects. You can also use tags to make it easier to allocate costs and optimize spending, for example by tagging a load balancer with details such as a cost center, or the name of an administrator or project.
You can add, view, and remove tags by using the AWS Management Console, API, or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
To learn more, please see the documentation.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Amazon WorkSpaces is now available. MFA can provide you with an additional layer of security during the authentication process. Users must validate their identify by providing something they know (e.g. password), as well as something they have (e.g. hardware or software generated one-time password (OTP)).
Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. It allows customers to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need with the device of their choice, including laptops, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Android tablets.
Support for MFA means you can use your existing RADIUS-based authentication solution with Amazon WorkSpaces. MFA can help you prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to resources, while defending against common password attacks such as phishing and keystroke logging. To learn more, please see our documentation.
A new app and service aimed at people with sight impairments is being cooked up on Silicon Roundabout.…
Dented Linux mobile OS Sailfish has taken a new route to market as Three in Hong Kong prepares to start selling the smartphone-that-could-have-been from Jolla.…
Ericsson and SoftBank in Japan have demonstrated a system which lets the network control not just how much bandwidth you have but how much spectrum each user gets to play with.…
Google is slinging money towards a US$300 million project to traverse the Pacific with a new high-capacity submarine cable.…
IBM has acquired upstart Lighthouse Security Group, which lets sysadmins manage user accounts and identities in an off-premises cloud.…
The infrastructure for text messaging is creaking. Not only does it need to be fixed, but it seems mobile operators don’t understand enough about their own systems to do it themselves.…
Both Vodafone and O2 are claiming to be the best mobile phone network for people, particularly government people, who are worried about security.…
The number of machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile data connections in the UK increased by nine per cent last year on 2012 figures, UK communications regulator Ofcom has reported.…
PricewaterhouseCoopers reckons the business end of the Internet of Things is going to hit its straps in 2015, reporting that 20 per cent of US businesses polled in its most recent Digital IQ Snapshot are putting money into sensors of some kind.…
We have added a new set of commands for Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) to the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). These commands will allow you to create, describe, manage, and terminate your Amazon EMR clusters using the AWS CLI. Also, these new commands offer an improved syntax than those on our previous Ruby-based CLI. In the future, we will only be adding new Amazon EMR functionality to our commands on the AWS CLI, and we will not be updating our Ruby-based CLI. The AWS CLI is easy to install and allows you to interact with multiple AWS services using a single tool.
The new Amazon EMR commands are available on the AWS CLI version 1.4.0 or later. If you have previously installed the AWS CLI, please upgrade to a supported version using "pip install --upgrade awscli" (view complete upgrade instructions here). If you have not installed the AWS CLI, please see our installation instructions and our configuration instructions. You can learn more about our new commands in the AWS CLI Reference or type "aws emr help" at your shell prompt.
More than one million British people now have access to high speed broadband as Westminster's plan to deliver access to "superfast" speeds to 95 per cent of the UK by 2017 gathers pace.…
The good burghers of TGI Friday’s have cooked up a plan to get you in and out of their eateries faster: using mobile tech.…
Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica’s unexpected €6.7bn bid to buy Brazilian broadband operator GVT, which is owned by French media conglomerate Vivendi, has put the cat among the pigeons across the Mediterranean at Telecom Italia, Italy’s largest telco.…
BT has pipped Logicalis to be the preferred supplier to provide the Welsh public sector with broadband and other IP services in a contract valued at up to £420m over its lifetime.…
EMC Federation member Pivotal has put all its eggs in one basket, by releasing the first version of its AppSuite.…
Hawaii's a tropical paradise, right?…
Researchers at Dell's SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have identified an exploit that can be used to steal cryptocurrency from mining pools – and they claim that at least one unknown miscreant has already used the technique to pilfer tens of thousands of dollars in digital cash.…
Cloudy storage startup Zadara can now drop a unified storage array in your own data centre, with you paying for its use and maintenance on a pay as you go scheme. It's essentially a "serviced storage array" (like a serviced office).…
Google has decided to give a two-year-old IETF e-mail standard a push towards universal adoption, by switching on support for RFC 6530 international character support in Gmail.…
HP has unveiled a new offering in its private cloud service portfolio that offers a basic level of cloudy functionality while keeping costs down for budget-conscious customers.…
Sprint has confirmed industry rumors by announcing the departure of its CEO and abandoned its pursuit of T-Mobile US.…
Telecoms giant BT has admitted charging a number of customers for the traffic racked up by its FON services, which uses a portion of each customer's Wi-Fi connection to provide hotspots accessible to the public.…
Virgin Media has announced the largest single expansion of its fibre optic network yet, extending its 152Mb broadband service to 100,000 homes in East London.…
“We apologise for the disruption. We have identified the cause and are working to restore the service as quickly as possible.”…
Researchers who last year demonstrated they could harvest stray RF signals to power RFID tags have scaled-up their technology to power Wi-Fi devices.…
A Singaporean outfit called Gentay Communications has launched “nanu”, an ad-funded VoIP-over-mobile-data service it says will succeed where others have failed.…
Sprint is set to give up its bid to acquire T-Mobile US and will replace its own CEO, it's claimed.…
Verizon is hitting back at the FCC's criticism over plans to throttle bandwidth hogs' download speeds.…
The latest deal for small businesses from BT is part of its move to become a mobile phone network again.…
Microsoft has made a confession: “integrating your on premises identities with Azure AD is harder than it should be” and requires “too many pages of documentation to read, too many different tools to download and configure, and far too much on premises hardware required.”…
You can now take advantage of the T2 instance type with Amazon RDS. T2 instances are a new low-cost standard instance type designed to provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline. These instances are recommended for workloads that don't use the full CPU often or consistently, but occasionally need to burst to higher CPU performance, such as small database workloads in test and developer environments.
T2 DB Instances feature the latest Intel Xeon processors with clock speeds up to 3.3 GHz during burst periods and are offered at prices up to 40% lower than comparable T1/M1 DB Instances.
Amazon RDS supports the use of T2 DB Instance types with MySQL 5.6, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server (except for Standard Edition — License Included). Support for MySQL versions 5.1 and 5.5 is coming soon. T2 DB Instances are available in all AWS Regions except GovCloud (US).
To use T2 DB Instance types, you can either launch a new DB Instance or perform a scale operation on an instance running a supported engine type. Amazon RDS for MySQL customers running MySQL 5.5 who wish to use T2 instances should first upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to MySQL 5.6 before performing an instance scale operation.
Pricing for T2 DB Instances starts at $0.008/hour (effective price) for 3 year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances and $0.017/hour for On-Demand usage. These pricing examples are for MySQL DB Instances in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. For more information on pricing, visit the Amazon RDS pricing page.
To learn more about T2 DB Instances, see the Amazon RDS instance class table.
We are excited to announce the redesigned IAM console, now with a streamlined look and feel that makes it even easier to manage your IAM settings. We added enhancements that make it more convenient to manage large resource lists (e.g., hundreds of users, groups, roles), eliminated tab switching, and optimized the IAM console to offer a better experience on mobile devices by restructuring resource detail pages and task workflows.
To get started, simply visit the IAM homepage in the AWS Management Console. To learn more about the redesign, see this post on the AWS security blog.
Docker has sold off its dotCloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering so that it can concentrate on its much-buzzed-about eponymous Linux application container technology.…
The Scales Review of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) has found the network's early planning process was chaotic and that NBN Co, the company created to build the network, was not built on foundations suitable to enable the project's success.…
Android has raced past iOS to become the top mobile operating system for the first time.…
Intel’s Internet of Stuff standards-seeking group is planning to have a first code drop of middleware ready for developers in the third quarter this year, the firm told The Register.…
German hosting company Rechenzentrum Kreuznach has popped an AS/400 into the cloud, and anyone can use it for free.…
President Obama has signed off on the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, meaning that, in the US, people can take their mobile phone and unlock it from the carrier that sold it to them.…
Comcast and Time Warner will hike their broadband speeds in Kansas City, which just so happens to be the first place Google Fiber rolled out.…
Ofcom has “rethought” the fees that UK mobile networks pay for their 900MHz and 1800MHz spectrum, based on the industry's reaction to its latest proposal.…
Problems with Apple's sapphire glass supply chain could mean the Apple iWatch will only be released in small numbers this year, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has predicted.…
The wait for BBM on Windows Phone is over. BlackBerry has brought its pioneering and much-imitated messaging app to Windows, following launches on Android and iOS last year, albeit with the "Beta" label.…
Thousands of Brits are being slapped with costly cancellation fees worth hundreds of pounds when they try to switch broadband providers, the Citizens Advice charity has warned.…
So in The Register's ongoing untangling of what 5G might mean, we spoke to Tod Sizer of Alcatel-Lucent.…
Infrastructure-as-a-service and cloud concern Linode has open-sourced the support documentation it offers to users.…
French telco Iliad has made a surprise offer to acquire a majority stake in mobile carrier T-Mobile US, though the bid may have already been shot down.…
