Amazon Web Services has just done something rather interesting, in the form of making it possible to reserve servers in advance for short bursts of computing.…
In November, we announced that EC2 and EBS will have longer identifiers for instances, volumes, reservations, and snapshots to support the ongoing growth of Amazon Web Services. Starting today, you can opt in to using longer EC2 instance and reservation IDs using APIs or the AWS Management Console. Note: Longer EBS volume and snapshot IDs will be available in April 2016.
An activist investor is pressing AT&T for more details about how it handles government data requests.…
At the end of my holidays, as I waited for a for a flight to Sydney, I ran to a bloke I know who has a very healthy business as a marriage celebrant. Two hundred couples a year say their vows under his auspices, and he’s always looking for ways to keep his business fresh, to keep those engagements coming.…
Telstra's been accused of putting a stranglehold on National Broadband Network (NBN) connections. Our take: not quite yet.…
We are excited to announce three new security features that help further protect communication between Amazon CloudFront and your origin server.
Facebook has provided a passionate defense of its controversial Free Basics program and its approach of "zero rating."…
You can now purchase Amazon EC2 Scheduled Reserved Instances for applications that run on a part-time basis. Reserved Instances provide a capacity reservation so that you can have confidence in your ability to launch the number of instances you have reserved when you need them.
An investigation is underway after someone managed to infiltrate webmail and home broadband accounts belonging to the family of US spymaster James Clapper.…
You can now use Docker 1.9 on your Amazon ECS container instances. Read our documentation to learn how to use the latest Amazon ECS-optimized AMI.
Please visit our product page for more information about Amazon EC2 Container Service.
Amazon Web Services will open its first data center in Canada later this year, allowing folks to use AWS's cloud services in North America but not necessarily in the US.…
This Quick Start deploys a standardized environment that helps support National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 / Risk Management Framework (RMF) certifications, accreditations, and compliance processes. The Quick Start includes a deployment guide, which provides step-by-step instructions for deploying and configuring the environment. The deployment guide also includes links for viewing and launching AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployment.
The AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) console shows service last accessed data as part of the process of deleting an IAM user or role. Now you have additional data that shows you when a resource was last active so that you can make a more informed decision about whether or not to delete it.
To learn more, visit the AWS Security Blog.
The Council of Europe has approved and published strong net neutrality guidelines following a meeting in Strasbourg Wednesday.…
BlackBerry users worldwide received an OTA (over the air) “HotFix” update yesterday, regardless of where they bought the device. And that's significant.…
Blighty's competition watchdog is today expected to wave through the £12.5bn acquisition of EE by BT – in its final piece of paperwork before the two become one in March.…
European and Chinese telco bureaucrats are stripped and ripped and ready for four years of obstacle-course-racing to make sure their 5G is the 5G for the whole world.…
Australia had a shot at building a national fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network in the 1990s, but decided not to press the go button.…
Analysis T-Mobile US's excitable CEO John Legere has apologized while refusing to apologize over the aggressive stance he took in response to criticism of his network's BingeOn service.…
Comcast internet subscribers are complaining that the carrier has been bombarding them with requests to update their cable modems.…
