Software upstart Mesosphere has open-sourced its commercial Datacenter Operating System – DC/OS – with the backing of 60 big names in tech.…
AWS Application Discovery Service helps Systems Integrators quickly and reliably plan application migration projects by automatically identifying applications running in on-premises data centers, their associated dependencies, and their performance profile. Planning data center migrations can involve thousands of workloads that are often deeply interdependent. Application discovery and dependency mapping are important early first steps in the migration process, but difficult to perform at scale due to the lack of automated tools. AWS Application Discovery Service automatically collects configuration and usage data from servers, storage and networking equipment to develop a list of applications, how they perform, and how they are interdependent. This information is securely retained in an AWS Application Discovery Service database which you can export as a CSV or XML file into your preferred visualization tool or cloud migration solution to help reduce the complexity and time in planning your cloud migration.
AWS Application Discovery Service will be available soon. To learn more and request access to use the AWS Application Discovery Service visit http://ift.tt/20UyIt4
We are pleased to announce the 80 TB Snowball appliance, a larger capacity Snowball that enables more data to be securely moved in or out of AWS with fewer jobs. Since first launching Snowball at Re:Invent 2015, customers have successfully migrated petabytes of data to AWS using the 50TB Snowball and avoided challenges typically associated with large-scale data transfers such as high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns. With the new 80 TB Snowball, customers can move 60% more data with a single job, thereby requiring fewer jobs to move large amounts of data, reducing per-job fees and shipping costs, and enabling faster migration of data.
Today we’re excited to announce that Amazon Inspector has exited preview and is now generally available to all customers. Amazon Inspector is a security vulnerability assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on Amazon EC2. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices, and then produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by level of severity. Amazon Inspector includes a knowledge base of hundreds of rules mapped to common security standards and vulnerability definitions that are regularly updated by AWS security researchers.
You can now use AWS Device Farm for manual tasks like debugging new functionality, running manual tests, and reproducing customer issues. Simply choose an Android device and swipe, gesture, and interact with it from your web browser.
You can now use Cognito Identity to easily and securely add user sign-up and sign-in to your mobile and web apps. Cognito Identity can scale to support hundreds of millions of users, and is fully managed so you don’t have to worry about building, securing, and scaling a solution to handle user management and authentication.
We're pleased to announce Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration, a faster way to move data into your Amazon S3 bucket over the internet. Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration is designed to maximize transfer speeds when you need to move data over long distances, for instance across countries or continents to your Amazon S3 bucket. It works by carrying HTTP and HTTPS traffic over a highly optimized network bridge that runs between the AWS Edge Location nearest to your clients and your Amazon S3 bucket. There are no gateway servers to manage, no firewalls to open, no special protocols or clients to integrate with, or upfront fees to pay. You simply change the S3 endpoint that your application uses to transfer data, and acceleration is automatically applied. When moving GBs or TBs of data over long distances, it can save hours (or even days) in transfer time. You can try the Transfer Acceleration speed comparison tool to get a preview of the performance benefits.
Amazon Kinesis Firehose, the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS, now supports Amazon Elasticsearch Service as a data delivery destination. You can now use Amazon Kinesis Firehose to stream data to your Amazon Elasticsearch domains continuously and in near real time. Amazon Kinesis Firehose automatically scales to match the throughput of your data and handles all the underlying stream management. For more information, see the Amazon Kinesis Firehose website and developer guide.
Amazon Kinesis Streams enables you to build custom applications that process or analyze streaming data for specialized needs. Today we are adding two new features, time-based shard iterators and shard-level metrics, to make it easy to replay and manage your Amazon Kinesis streams.
You can now choose to have your AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments automatically update to the latest version of the underlying platform running your application during a specified maintenance window. Elastic Beanstalk regularly releases new versions of supported platforms (i.e., Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python, .NET, Go, and Docker) with operating system, web & application server, and language & framework updates. Previously, you had to manually initiate updates to your Elastic Beanstalk environments using the Elastic Beanstalk console, command line interface (CLI), or API. Now, you can simply select a weekly maintenance window and have Elastic Beanstalk automatically update the platform version of your environment during that window.
Starting today, you can save up to 50% on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) by launching Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) clusters with two new EBS volumes, Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) and Cold HDD (sc1). These new volume types offer better price performance, improved performance consistency, and higher throughput compared to our existing EBS Magnetic offering. Both are designed for throughput-intensive and big data workloads, which are characterized by having large data sets, large I/O sizes, and sequential I/O patterns. Examples of these workloads include MapReduce, Kafka, log processing, data warehouse, and ETL.
SpectraLogic has added replication and a cloud gateway to its BlackPearl disk and tape storage combo.…
The EU is launching a €6.7bn (£5.3bn) mega “science cloud”, intended to better exploit the continent's academic research via big data.…
America's flagship news program 60 Minutes has demonstrated how to "hack" a US congressman's smartphone. One little thing to bear in mind about this incredible scoop: the vulnerability has been in circulation since 2014 ... and it requires high-level access to global phone networks.…
You can now provision Amazon API Gateway using AWS CloudFormation. API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Learn more here.
You can now choose AWS CodeCommit as a source provider in your software release pipelines modeled in AWS CodePipeline. This lets you select CodeCommit repositories and branches in the source stage of your pipelines.
In all the excitement about 5G, it is easy to forget that the most intensive innovations of 2016-2020 will go on in "4.5G" – in Release 13 and 14, of course, but more importantly in the way the carriers and their vendors reinvent their cellular networks with new approaches like virtualization and HetNet, in the desperate bid to keep up with capacity, coverage and efficiency demands.…
7th version of database appliance lands with 22-core Xeons and 8TB drive support Oracle is preparing an on-premises version of its new Exadata cloud service.…
The end is in sight for Tasmania's long-running submarine cable saga, with Basslink announcing its cables should return to service in June.…
IT integration isn't easy. Just ask Australia's dominant carrier Telstra, whose customer information system accidentally provided a ladder over the “Chinese walls” supposed to keep wholesale information out of the hands of its retail business.…
The House of Representatives has passed a bill that it claims will prevent federal regulators from setting broadband prices, but critics say it's little more than an effort to undermine net neutrality regulations.…
Analysis One of the central themes of Facebook's F8 developer conference in San Francisco this week has been Mark Zuckerberg's plans to wire up the world with Facebook internet access.…
London-based online backup biz Monster Cloud is under fire from customers after hiking its prices and switching up its subscription plans.…
Microsoft has issued guidelines about Azure security that spell out when a problem is your problem and when a problem is Microsoft's problem.…
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) has started work on open container Image Format spec.…
Microsoft has sued the US Department of Justice (DoJ) over the software giant's right to alert users when their personal data has been accessed by cops and Feds.…
Broadband customers at TalkTalk continued to flee the operator during the first three months of this year, with 126,000 customers switching away from the provider.…
Reseller giant Misco has confirmed it will embark on a crash migration program to shift its infrastructure into the cloud - a day after a datacentre meltdown that froze its e-commerce front-end for six hours.…
Digital minister Ed Vaizey has shied away from guaranteeing a legal right to a universal service obligation of 10Mbps by 2020.…
A couple of days ago Google's cloud went offline, just about everywhere, for 18 minutes. Now the Alphabet subsidiary has explained why and issued a personal apology penned by “Veep for 24x7” Benjamin Treynor Sloss.…
Intel's decided it can do without VMware's ESXi hypervisor as part of a big upgrade of its private cloud.…
Microsoft has taken a data science bundle it crafted last November and put it onto an Azure-hosted Linux VM.…
Facebook's quest to connect the remaining four billion people on the planet without internet access up to Facebook the web is a huge task.…
DNS overseer ICANN has been hit with a preliminary injunction ordering it to halt the delegation of the .africa internet space for a second time.…
The workers who handle Verizon's wireline services in the Eastern US have gone on strike.…
Not wanting to be totally outdone by the recent outage at arch rival Insight Enterprises, online reselling rival Systems Europe - trading as Misco - has battled its own web demons for the best part of this morning.…
Comment Pity poor Juniper. The networking company’s alliance with Ruckus Wireless last summer raised hopes that it would strike it third time lucky in the Wi-Fi market, filling the gaping wireless gap in its platform. Now Brocade has snatched carrier Wi-Fi leader Ruckus from under its rival’s nose with a $1.2bn acquisition.…
The Register's virtualisation desk has sometimes heard talk of a concept called “follow-the-moon” computing that aims to reduce the cost of running apps by placing them in spots where electricity is cheap.…
Internet.org aka Free Basics – Facebook's slice of the web for the developing world – has been controversial, but that isn't stopping the social network.…
One of the five regional internet registries (RIRs), RIPE, has published its 2015 transparency report reviewing requests from law enforcement for information.…
The communications regulator Ofcom has promised to release more details on how it intends to give BT's competitors greater access to Openreach's poles and ducts by the summer.…
Comment Years ago, we used to mock Ofcom for its Ofcom-branded bottled water, and its tediously technocratic “evidence based” approach, something which is actually enshrined in the 2002 Act that created it.…
You can now configure AWS IoT Rules to route device-generated data directly to Amazon Machine Learning, enabling you to create machine learning (ML) models without having to learn complex ML algorithms and technology. With Amazon Machine Learning integration, you will be able to generate billions of predictions daily, and serve those predictions in real-time and at high throughput.
You now have the ability to quickly and easily create new Amazon Redshift datasources in Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) by copying settings from an existing Amazon Redshift datasource. A new option on the Amazon ML console allows you to select an existing Redshift datasource to copy the Redshift cluster name, database name, IAM role, SQL query and staging data location, to automatically populate these fields in the Create Datasource wizard. You can modify the settings before the new datasource is created, for example, to change the SQL query, or to specify a different IAM role to access the cluster.
We are pleased to announce that the AWS Schema Conversion Tool now supports conversions between two popular open source engines: MySQL and PostgreSQL. Conversions can be run in either direction and using any MySQL compatible engine including Amazon’s next generation cloud database, Aurora. This release builds upon existing support for conversions from Oracle and SQL Server to PostgreSQL and MySQL. SCT now includes further improvements in conversion rules between all engines and a revised assessment report.
Google says it will no longer offer free Google Fiber internet in Kansas City, Missouri.…
AWS IoT now offers APIs to register and use security certificates signed by your Certificate Authority (CA) as an alternative to using certificates that were generated by AWS IoT. This allows your connected devices with existing or new certificates signed by your signing certificate seamless access to AWS IoT.
To learn more about the service, visit the AWS IoT documentation.
Amazon Kinesis Agent is a pre-built Java application that offers an easy way to collect and send data to Amazon Kinesis Streams and Amazon Kinesis Firehose. The agent monitors a set of files for new data and continuously sends it to Amazon Kinesis Streams or Amazon Kinesis Firehose.
A new set of of review, guidance and reporting activities have been formalized to help customers prepare, manage, and optimize their cloud operations. Included with the Enterprise support plan, Operations Support enables customers to work with their Technical Account Manager to gain:
Britain's competition regulator has written to Brussels to put the brakes on the proposed £10.25bn merger between Three and O2 unless a fourth mobile operator is proposed.…
Once Dell gobbles EMC for good, the combined company will rule the cloud.…
Security defence man David Longenecker says millions of users could have their internet connections severed thanks to a flaw in Surfboard SB6141 modems.…
Rackspace will bring its cloud to you: the company has revealed a new offering whereby it will pour OpenStack into a box and run it from its own data centres, a third party's bit barn or your own premises.…
Telstra has once again won work with nbn, the entity building Australia's national broadband network (NBN), announcing it's secured a contract worth AU$1.6 billion to work on the hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) cable broadband network to sold to nbn.…
Last week The Register brought you news that the Australian Bureau of Statistics' most recent Internet Activity data combined data for broadband services advertised as “8Mbps to less than 24Mbps” and “24Mbps or greater” into a single category titled “8Mbps or greater.”…
DNS overlord ICANN has responded to an angry letter from three US Congressmen accusing it of failing to answer questions ... by sending a letter that fails to answer their questions.…
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 9.5, which contains several new features including UPSERT capability, Row Level Security (RLS) and several Big Data capabilities. In addition to supporting the new major version of PostgreSQL, 9.5, RDS for PostgreSQL also supports new minor versions 9.4.7 and 9.3.12, which contain several enhancements and fixes. All three versions are available to use starting today.
Amazon CloudWatch Events now supports AWS Lambda function versions and aliases.
The next version of OpenStack, Mitaka, has materialised.…
Google software engineer Nav Jagpal says it will start sharing URLs linked to social engineering, unwanted and malicious software, to help network administrators understand the threats they face.…
You can now select from two additional deployment policies, immutable and rolling with additional batch, when deploying application code using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This is in addition to the two existing deployment policies that Elastic Beanstalk currently supports (i.e. rolling, all at once). You can now select one of these four deployment policies when updating your applications. Elastic Beanstalk also lets you perform DNS-based blue/green updates in addition to the four deployment policies.
We continuously enhance our technical courses to stay current with the pace of AWS platform updates and incorporate student feedback. We have made substantial updates to our two foundational training courses to better provide students with actionable knowledge to get started creating solutions with AWS and a path to advanced learning.
AWS IoT is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) region.
You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using Node.js 4.3.2 in addition to Node.js 0.10.4. In addition to the leveraging new features in Node.js 4.3 such as ES6 support, Lambda functions written in Node.js 4.3 can now use standard Node.js callback conventions to specify error or return values for the function execution. Previously, returning values from a Lambda function required the use of methods specific to the Lambda programming model. See our documentation to learn more about implementing callbacks within Lambda functions.
Mobile carrier Sprint says it will raise $2.2bn by selling and then re-lease its own network hardware.…
The architect of China's Great Firewall was forced to use a VPN to bypass his own creation in a lecture this week on internet safety.…
Today, we made it easier for you to configure trust relationships between your AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition)—also known as Microsoft AD—and your on-premises Microsoft Active Directory domains. Establishing trust relationships requires conditional forwarders, which resolve Domain Name System (DNS) queries between the domain names of the trusting directories. You now can more easily configure conditional forwarders using the Directory Service console, which eliminates the need to install DNS Manager on a Microsoft Windows Server instance in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
The problems that have plagued the handover of broadband subscribers from Verizon to Frontier Communications are entering their second week – and Frontier says that some internet services will not be restored until mid-April.…
Three UK is making a last-ditch attempt to win EU approval of its £10.25bn O2 merger with a number of sweeteners, including £3bn in network deals with competitors, according to reports.…
China's State Council has signed off on a plan to place the internet of things at the heart of new efforts to upgrade the nation's manufacturing capabilities.…
We are excited to announce that Amazon Redshift is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region.
Australian political commentator Waleed Aly has made a spectacularly non-useful intervention into the debate about the technologies used to build Australia's national broadband network (NBN), setting the ridiculous expectation that streaming video must always load in under a second.…
On a recent trip to the shops, I priced a massive UHD OLED telly, with blacks so dark the panel looked like it actively sucked in light. Staring into the most beautiful television I’d ever seen, I had a moment of clarity: Gorgeous and expensive, but useless.…
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon CloudWatch Logs in the AWS China (Beijing) region.
AWS Config Rules allow you to create rules that continuously check the configuration of AWS resources recorded by AWS Config, and notifies when resources do not comply with these guidelines. Using the rules dashboard, you can track overall compliance status and troubleshoot specific resource configuration changes that led to noncompliance.
The extraordinary decision of Nest to brick its $300 Revolv home automation hub has served as a wake-up call to the tech industry.…
Vodafone has once again come under fire for poor customer service, this time for its handling of a computer glitch that led to customers being overcharged.…
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has penned a new letter to shareholders in which he points out that Amazon Web Services is bigger, and growing faster, than its parent company did at the same age.…
VMware's written to members of its user group (VMUG) and subscribers to its EVALExperience program to advise they're being booted out of its cloud.…
Australians downloaded 1,714,922 Terabytes in the 90 days to December 31st, 2015, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).…
You now have the ability to shuffle your training data with Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) for improved ML model quality. Amazon ML creates better ML models when input rows are presented to the ML algorithm in a random order. With this new training parameter option, you can have Amazon ML shuffle the order of the rows of your training data. Data shuffling will be turned on by default in the Amazon ML console when you create an ML model. You can control this option through the console, or turn data shuffling on through the API and SDK.
Amazon API Gateway now supports importing Swagger API definitions. Previously, you would use the Swagger importer tool to import Swagger definitions into API Gateway. Now, you can import your Swagger API definitions into API Gateway through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDK. This allows you to easily create and deploy new APIs as well as update existing APIs in Amazon API Gateway.
We are excited to announce the launch of three new health checking features for Amazon Route 53:
Metric Based Health Checks let you perform DNS failover based on any metric that is available within Amazon CloudWatch, including AWS-provided metrics and custom metrics from your own application. When you create a metric based health check within Amazon Route 53, the health check becomes unhealthy whenever its associated Amazon CloudWatch metric enters an alarm state.
Two reports by privacy campaigners into mobile and Wi-Fi services' location tracking activities have revealed practices of questionable legality and security.…
Rural broadband provider Gigaclear has bagged an additional £24m in investment, part of its plans to serve 1.5 million homes currently without fibre-to-the-premises networks.…
Australia's dominant carrier Telstra has hauled three of its key vendors into the principal's office for a dressing down, following network outages that had the Australian incumbent giving mobile users “free data days” to stem the outrage.…
You can now use upgraded versions of Apache Spark (1.6.1), Apache Hadoop (2.7.2), and an upgraded sandbox release of Presto (0.140) on Amazon EMR release 4.5.0. Spark 1.6.1 was released in the community on March 9th, and it contains several bug fixes and updates to the Dataset API. Additionally, the EMR Filesystem (EMRFS) can now read objects from and write objects to Amazon S3 with S3 server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service keys (SSE-KMS). Previously, EMRFS supported S3 server-side encryption with S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) and S3 client-side encryption with AWS KMS keys or custom keys.
Today we are excited to announce two new predefined commands for EC2 Run Command for your Windows instances. To learn more about how to use these new commands, please visit the user guide.
The FCC has launched a "broadband label" that breaks down exactly what service your ISPs offers and all related fees to it.…
The European Commission has two months to decide whether to allow the takeover of Telefonica’s O2 UK arm by CK Hutchison, owner of 3UK, and if it does, what conditions will be imposed.…
A long-awaited third crossing between Australia, New Zealand and the USA looks set to become a reality, with Kiwi cable Hawaiki announcing it's secured the funding needed to start construction.…
Larry Ellison will be throwing his boats out of the bathtub on the news that Wim Coekaerts, possibly Oracle's top Linux guy, has jumped ship to Microsoft.…
Facebook reportedly had its Free Basics internet service banned in Egypt because it would not meet government demands that it open the service for surveillance.…
You can now view Amazon Aurora clusters on the RDS console. Managing multiple clusters in your fleet is easier as the cluster view allows you to modify and delete clusters as well as manage the Aurora instances on them. For more information on the cluster view and APIs, read the Amazon Aurora User Guide. To know more about Amazon Aurora, visit our product page.
You can now launch new Oracle 12c and 11g database versions "11.2.0.4v7", "12.1.0.1.v4" and "12.1.0.2.v3" that include the January 2016 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU). In new versions, we also increased the limit on number of custom Oracle directories to 10,000 and enabled re-granting of read privileges on Oracle dump directories.
Frontier Communications says that problems related to its takeover of Verizon's internet service led to outages across the three most populous states in the country yesterday.…
Apple at 40 In four decades, Apple has done more than most companies to seamlessly blend software and hardware, creating beautifully functional products. However, software (and hardware) no longer live exclusively on our devices, and the one thing that continues to frustrate Apple is the cloud.…
It has been a busy day for Intel; first new processors, then solid state drives, and now it has announced plans to set global standards for data center deployments.…
The United Nations body that reviews how the internet is governed is facing criticism from some of its biggest supporters over its "black box" decision making.…
AWS Config is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. AWS Config is a fully managed service that gives you an inventory of your AWS resources, notifies you when the configurations of your resources change, and lets you audit the history of the configurations for those resources to enable security and governance.
