You can now use up to four monitors with Amazon WorkSpaces when accessing your WorkSpace from a Windows or Apple Mac computer. Working with four monitors provides additional screen space, which makes it easier to multitask, and lets you keep relevant information always visible. Amazon WorkSpaces also now supports 4K Ultra HD resolution on up to two monitors, which lets you see more information on each screen and in greater detail.
To better serve a global audience, Amazon Polly announces the expansion to nine additional AWS Regions, as well as the release of Korean language support, and a new Indian English voice to our Text-to-Speech portfolio. Listen to the voice introductions from Seoyeon, a new Korean female voice, and Aditi, a new Indian English female voice.
We’re pleased to announce the availability of two new versions of the AWS Deep Learning AMIs. The first, a Conda-based AMI, available in Amazon Linux and Ubuntu versions, is for developers who need ready-to-run deep learning environments with Python support. The Conda-based AMI comes packaged with latest official releases of the following deep learning frameworks: Apache MXNet 0.12 with Gluon, TensorFlow 1.4, Caffe2 0.8.1, PyTorch 0.2, CNTK 2.2, Theano 0.9, Keras 1.2.2 and Keras 2.0.9.
Amazon EC2 F1 instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.
AWS Step Functions now supports updating state machines, allowing you to easily change your state machine definitions and configurations. AWS Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. Building applications from individual components that each perform a discrete function lets you scale and change applications quickly. Step Functions is a reliable way to coordinate components and step through the functions of your application.
Two Plusnet adverts selling business broadband have been ruled "misleading" by the Advertising Standards Agency.…
Beleaguered ISP TalkTalk's half-year results have plunged into the red, reporting pre-tax losses of £75m due to major restructuring costs.…
Tasks running on Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) can now take advantage of AWSVPC mode for container networking. This new mode allocates an elastic networking interface to each running task, providing a dynamic private IP address and internal DNS name. This simplifies container networking operations, allowing tasks to run with full networking features on AWS, just like EC2 instances.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has published the third release of OSM, its open source management and orchestration (MANO) stack for network function virtualisation.…
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09, C5 and P3 Instance Types, and Python 3.6.
We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon Lightsail block storage that allows customers to extend their Lightsail instances with additional solid state drive (SSD) -backed storage disks for $0.10 per GB-month. With block storage, customers can attach performant, secure storage disks to their Lightsail instances with just a few clicks. With Lightsail block storage, users can now further customize their instances and scale their applications at a low, predictable price.
Amazon WorkDocs Drive is now available for Microsoft Windows in limited preview. With Amazon WorkDocs Drive, all of your files are available in Windows File Explorer on-demand, and are not stored locally. You can use Amazon WorkDocs Drive as your personal home drive, and no longer need to use network file shares for your team’s home drive.
Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to to view and filter services in the AWS management console.
Jessica Rosenworcel, one of the commissioners at America's broadband watchdog the FCC, has reiterated her call for hearings into what is happening with communications on the hurricane-stricken island of Puerto Rico.…
Today, AWS announced the ability to migrate from a Classic Load Balancer to an Application Load Balancer or a Network Load Balancer in one step using a console-based migration wizard. The migration wizard makes it very easy to create an Application Load Balancer or a Network Load Balancer with a configuration that is equivalent to your Classic Load Balancer. It removes need for step-by-step configuration and enables you to quickly test your application with a new type of load balancer. It also provides a single-screen view of the new configuration with flexibility to modify it before creating the new load balancer. After the migration, you can configure the advanced features offered by the new load balancer. You can access the migration wizard from the Migration tab in the console for a Classic Load Balancer.
BT is proposing to close its defined benefit pension scheme for 11,000 managers and slash contributions to 21,000 frontline staff in a bid to plug a looming £14bn pension deficit.…
London's Victorian sewer network is to be made accessible to fibre cables under a deal between SSE Enterprise Telecoms and Thames Water.…
Amazon Web Services appears to have quit China.…
Today, we announced support for an ODBC driver for Amazon Athena.
US telco giants AT&T and Verizon are joining forces to install cellphone towers throughout America.…
Starting today, Amazon WorkDocs makes it easier to share files with contractors, vendors, and other third parties in a quick, easy, and secure way. WorkDocs users can now collaborate with third parties by selecting “Share by invite” from the file drop-down menu, and entering a valid email address.
We are announcing Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs support for OpenGL 4.2, and availability in the EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. To activate OpenGL 4.2 support for existing Elastic GPUs, simply stop and start your instances, and a new driver will be automatically installed in your instance to support OpenGL 4.2.
Spot Fleet now integrates with Elastic Load Balancing to enable you to attach one or more load balancers to a Spot Fleet. By attaching a load balancer Spot Fleet automatically registers the instances it launches with the load balancer or target groups, the load balancer then distributes incoming traffic across your instances.
Rackspace says it will be teaming up with HPE to build a private cloud service that bills customers based on usage.…
Openreach chair Mike McTighe says the carrier has concluded its consultation on how to deliver fibre-to-the-premises connections across Britain by the year 2025 and will deliver its plan to do so “before Christmas”.…
Starting today, you can monitor your Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache reservations, in addition to your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI), using the RI Utilization report, available in AWS Cost Explorer.
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Facebook wants to look at my nuts.…
Orbital ATK will on Saturday* launch a Cygnus spacecraft on a supply mission to the International Space Station, with one of its payloads being a pair of CubeSats that NASA hopes can demonstrate 200 megabits per second downloads, from space, and how small satellites can be operated in harness to build networks or complex machines.…
Qualcomm says it has struck a deal, of sorts, with four major smartphone vendors in China that could possibly be worth $12bn.…
Nvidia's fortunes continue to rise, with the graphics card slinger reporting record revenue of $2.64bn, as well as rising profit, in its third quarter of the year.…
The AWS Quick Start team and solutions architects, in collaboration with AWS partners, are pleased to announce Amazon Connect integrations—automated deployments that extend the cloud-based contact center functionality provided by Amazon Connect with popular services and solutions from AWS partners.
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis introduces Online Cluster Resizing to add and remove shards from a running cluster. You can now dynamically scale-out or scale-in your Redis cluster workloads to adapt to changes in demand. ElastiCache will resize the cluster and redistribute hash slots uniformly across the new shard configuration, all while the cluster continues to stay online and serve requests. Additionally, for optimized processing, you can also rebalance a cluster and uniformly distribute the slot space, without changing the number of shards.
Control the tonal quality of Amazon Polly’s voice output with the new vocal-tract-length Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) tag. Adjusting the “vocal tract length” will modify the tone quality, called timbre, to make a voice sound characteristically different without adjusting rate and pitch. This tag can be used with any of the voices in the Amazon Polly Text-to-Speech portfolio to produce many variations for a single voice.
Amazon Inspector is pleased to announce the addition of native severity data for the Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE), and CIS Benchmarks rule packages, along with support for security assessments on CentOS Enterprise Linux 7.4 within Amazon EC2.
Today AWS Direct Connect has landed sites in five cities – Denver, Phoenix, Madrid, Helsinki and Chennai. In the US, CoreSite DE1, Denver and phoenixNAP, Phoenix bring the total AWS Direct Connect sites in the country to 28. With global access enabled for AWS Direct Connect, these sites can reach AWS resources in any global AWS Region. In the AWS Management Console, Denver will be found under its home region of US West (Oregon) and Phoenix will be found in US West (N.California). In Europe, ITConic Madrid 2, now an Equinix datacenter, marks the second AWS Direct Connect site in Madrid and Equinix HE6, Helsinki is the first AWS Direct Connect presence in Finland. Both these sites, Madrid and Helsinki, will be found under the EU Central (Frankfurt) AWS Region in the console. In Asia, India gets its first site outside Mumbai with STT GDC Chennai VSB in Chennai, which will be found in its home region of Asia Pacific (Mumbai).
Multiple Microsoft customers have for the past nineteen hours been unable to provision new virtual machines in Azure's UK West and UK South regions.…
Vodafone has inked a £500m deal for a full-fibre network built by CityFibre, which could connect up to 5 million premises over the next eight years.…
Power outages have brought some OVH data servers to their knees, and unspecified issues have broken optical cable routing in Europe for POP.…
Interview "Look, if you can't get decent broadband, it is a real pisser," says Openreach boss Clive Selley in response to a Devon village's decision to burn an effigy of one of its vans on bonfire night.…
Google last week announced that it has started using version 2.1 of its Andromeda software-defined networking stack.…
Amazon Web Services has quietly edited its FAQ in which it revealed it has created a new KVM-based hypervisor and will use it instead of Xen for future instances.…
We are pleased to announce that Application Auto Scaling now supports scheduled scaling, which makes it possible to scale resources at specific preset times or intervals. Application Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale resources for AWS services beyond Amazon EC2, including Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Spot Fleets, Amazon EMR Clusters, AppStream 2.0 fleets, and Amazon DynamoDB.
Customers can now privately access AWS services from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet.
Qualcomm said today is it shipping its ARM-based server-grade processor, the Centriq 2400 – the world's first 10nm data-center CPU.…
.NEXT Nutanix has a one click, one OS, any cloud concept with new services to virtualise compute and object storage across multiple clouds – both on-premises and public ones.…
Carphone Warehouse was given a particularly withering stare by the Advertising Standards Agency in a ruling handed down today concerning one of its radio adverts.…
Google's again 'fessed up to cooking its own cloud.…
Salesforce.com and Google have agreed on a partnership deal that will see the former's CRM service integrated directly into G Suite's productivity apps.…
Juniper Networks has enhanced its Contrail Cloud enhancements, in the hope it can put network function virtualization into the hands of more and smaller carrier.…
Starting today, AWS Glue API calls are recorded and available in AWS CloudTrail. AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.
This Quick Start automates the design, setup, and configuration of hardware and software to implement a data lake on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. The Quick Start provisions Talend Big Data Platform components and AWS services such as Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to build a data lake. It also provides an optional sample dataset and Talend jobs developed by Cognizant Technology Solutions to illustrate big data practices for integrating Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3 technologies into a data lake implementation.
The Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) command line interface (CLI) is now available as version 1.0.0.
AWS Batch users are now able to create Managed Compute Environments which launch Amazon EC2 P3 instances. This allows developers to submit GPU-accelerated jobs without having to worry about managing compute resources.
AWS has a reputation for ratcheting up prices as customers migrate more workloads to its sprawling rack empire, but a bunch of UK users endured a sphincter-tightening moment today when they checked their bill.…
AWS has revealed its created a new hypervisor that appears to be based on KVM, not the Xen hypervisor on which it has relied for years.…
AWS has revealed its created a new version of the Xen hypervisor to make a new type of EC2 instance go faster.…
Cisco's pushed a fix for a border gateway protocol (BGP) denial-of-service bug in its IOS XE operating system.…
Trying to duck patent sueballs slung by Cisco didn't stop Arista from claiming record revenue and profit for its most recent quarter.…
The AWS Price List API lets you access detailed pricing information for AWS services in JSON form. You can also opt in to receive updates when prices change by subscribing to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics.
You now have a number of new Amazon S3 features to augment data protection and simplify compliance.
In September 2016, we introduced Convertible RIs which provide customers with the flexibility to change an RI’s instance type, OS, tenancy or payment option during its term. Today, we are announcing a few enhancements to Convertible RIs.
Amazon EC2 C5 instances are the next generation of Amazon EC2’s compute optimized instances and are powered by 3.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Skylake). C5 instances are built using a new light-weight hypervisor, which provides practically all of the compute and memory resources to customers’ instances. As a result, C5 instances deliver the best price/compute performance in the EC2 product family, with a 25% improvement in price/performance compared to C4 instances and certain applications delivering greater than 50% improvement. C5 instances are ideal for running compute-heavy workloads like batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.
Amazon EC2 Systems Manager now supports inventory collection from Windows Registry, Windows services, roles and features enabled in Windows Server, and Windows and Linux file metadata such as when a file is created, modified, or accessed.
AWS CloudFormation has increased the number of stack instances you can create per StackSet to manage your AWS resources. Previously, you could create maximum of 50 stack instances per StackSet. Now, you can create a maximum of 500 stack instances per StackSet allowing you to provision more stack instances across accounts and regions from a single template with a single operation.
AWS launches new billing preferences that give you control over how AWS credits and RI discounts are shared among the accounts in your organization.
A fat-fingered configuration blunder at Level 3 temporarily sent a chunk of internet connectivity in America and the wider world to level zero on Monday.…
Just last week we announced our 100th Point of Presence, today Amazon CloudFront introduces a brand new city into its network with the launch of its first Edge Location in Palermo, Italy. We now have two Edge Locations in Italy, with the other being in Milan. Our network now has 101 Points of Presence comprised of 90 Edge Locations and 11 Regional Edge Caches. The addition of Palermo, Italy as a new city is the first of many new network expansions to be announced over the coming months.
Mellanox's next-gen Innova network adapter won't just pack the obligatory high-speed interfaces – it'll also embed a Xilinx FPGA.…
Amazon CloudWatch is excited to announce that you can now bookmark your critical CloudWatch dashboards and quickly view them when needed. With this launch, a new “Favorites” section has been added to the sidebar in CloudWatch console. You can add any of your CloudWatch dashboards to the Favorites and quickly access them from the any other AWS regions. If you rename one of your bookmarked dashboards, the new name is automatically reflected in the Favorites. There is no additional charge for using Favorites.
This new Quick Start automatically deploys Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), a cloud-native platform for deploying and operating modern enterprise applications, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
The July 2017 Oracle Patch Set Update (PSU) is 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.
Amazon CloudWatch is excited to announce that you can now hide your Auto Scaling Alarms in the CloudWatch console. Auto Scaling Alarms are CloudWatch alarms that use actions to dynamically scale your Auto Scaling groups to handle the load for your application. To learn more about Dynamic Auto Scaling, please visit here. With a single click, you can now hide all your Auto Scaling alarms from being displayed in the CloudWatch console along with your other CloudWatch alarms. In addition, the Alarms counter on the sidebar that shows the number of alarms in each state will also reflect your selection. Please note the hidden alarms will continue to perform the Auto Scaling actions as before.
AWS Marketplace, which lists over 4,000 software listings from over 1,250 popular software vendors across 35 product categories, has announced that customers can now receive specific pricing and end-user license terms with Seller Private Offers. With this feature, software sellers participating in the Enhanced Data Sharing (EDS) program can extend any AWS account a version of their product, enabling volume discounts through AWS Marketplace. This means that AWS customers can enjoy all the same benefits of consolidated billing, cost analysis, and subscription management of AWS Marketplace while paying a lower privately negotiated price visible only to that customer and the seller.
Device and init flags can now be specified in task definitions for Docker containers managed by Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS).
Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows applications running in containers to directly access metadata about their environment.
VMware's acquired VeloCloud and will use its wares to extend its NSX software-defined networking platform to the wide area network.…
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now allows you to reconfigure the volume type and Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) upon snapshot restore. You can restore or point-in-time-restore (PiTR) to a different storage type than the source instance. When restoring the database instance, you can easily change the storage type and PIOPS in the Amazon RDS Console.
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now a HIPAA Eligible Service and included to the AWS Business Associate Addendum (BAA). This announcement means you can use ElastiCache for Redis to store, process, and access protected health information (PHI) and power secure healthcare applications.
Amazon Kinesis Analytics allows you to detect anomalies on streaming data in real time. Today, we launched two new features that provide explanations of the anomalies, making it easy for you to perform root cause analysis. You can learn which fields in your data lead to high anomaly scores and identify trends associated with the anomaly.
You can now choose from two types of API endpoints when creating REST APIs and custom domains with Amazon API Gateway. A regional API endpoint is a new type of endpoint that is accessed from the same AWS region in which your REST API is deployed. This helps you reduce request latency when API requests originate from the same region as your REST API. Additionally, you can now choose to associate your own Amazon CloudFront distribution with the regional API endpoint. The second type of API endpoint is the edge-optimized API. Edge-optimized APIs are endpoints that are accessed through a CloudFront distribution that is created and managed by API Gateway. Previously, edge-optimized APIs were the default option for creating APIs with API Gateway.
Eager to avoid the perception that it has been leafing through netizens' files – a fear it has contended with at least since it began scanning Gmail messages to inform its ad biz – Google on Thursday issued a second statement to explain why it erroneously flagged files for a small percentage of Docs and Drive users as violating its Terms of Service two days ago.…
Beleaguered TalkTalk customers are complaining that their landline and mobile phones ring at the same time, an issue that appears to be due to a glitch in the telco's Talk2Go app.…
Virgin Media will fall significantly short of connecting 800,000 new customers to its ultrafast Project Lightning broadband this year – a target set prior to the firm's mis-selling scandal – according to its third-quarter preliminary results.…
LOGOWATCH IBM has re-named its cloud. Again.…
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 13c1 and 13c2. OEM 13c offers web-based tools to monitor and manage your Oracle databases. Amazon RDS for Oracle installs OMA, which then communicates with your Oracle Management Service (OMS) to provide monitoring information.
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate now supports Chef Automate version 1.6.x, which includes Chef Automate with integrated compliance.
Apache MXNet version 0.12 is now available with two new important features—support for NVIDIA Volta GPUs, and support for Sparse Tensors.
Microsoft has lobbed its Microsoft 365 Business package for small and mid-sized companies into general availability.…
AWS Shield Advanced, a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service, now provides the global threat environment dashboard that shows DDoS trends and metrics across Amazon CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Route 53.
With the latest release of Amazon Athena, you can now run SQL queries on Geospatial data. To use the Geospatial functions in Amazon Athena, your data must be in WKT (Well-known Text) or WKB (Well-known Binary formats). You can use specialized data types such as point, line, polygon, multiline, & multi-polygon and calculate relationships such as distance, crosses, touches, overlaps, & disjoints between geometries. A full list of functions are available in the Athena documentation.
Openreach reckons its 580 communications providers "have welcomed the ambition" to increase the UK's woeful fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) coverage. However, some folk remain less impressed.…
You can now easily view the time stamps and duration for when agents log in and log out of Amazon Connect with the new Login/Logout report. This report provides you with the information you need to generate agent time cards for payroll.
Starting today, qualified educational customers can reduce their Amazon AppStream 2.0 user fee by 89% from $4.19 per user per month to $0.44. The user fee is required for every AppStream 2.0 user as part of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Subscription Access License (RDS SAL) fee.
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.
IBM has updated Cloud Private to help customers get containerised and move into hybrid private/public cloud computing.…
Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 9.6.5, 9.5.9, 9.4.14, and 9.3.19. This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains other bug fixes and improvements.
Nearly one-third of mobile users suffer poor or no indoor reception at home, according to a survey by price comparison site uSwitch.…
Another day, another cloud security mishap. Some company exposes recordings of your kids to the Internet and then comes under Senatorial scrutiny. A security firm managing security clearance information turns out to be insecure.…
Microsoft has let the world in on one of its key Azure management tools: a simulator designed to help prevent nearly 70 per cent of the bugs that cause network downtime.…
Verizon is leaning on America's broadband watchdog to stomp out any hope of state governments rolling out their own rules on net neutrality, privacy protections and other internet regulations.…
