Amazon Connect is Now ISO Compliant

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.

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AWS Direct Connect Provides Flexibility for Balancing Data Transfer out Traffic.

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.

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Model Server for Apache MXNet Introduces ONNX Support and Amazon CloudWatch Integration

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. 

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Amazon EC2 M5 Instances Are Now Available in Additional Regions

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.

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Amazon EC2 C5 Instances Are Now Available in Additional 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.

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AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET version 2.0.0 (beta)

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. 

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Another week, another Cisco-security-kit-needs-a-patch story

Probing last week's ASA and Firepower flaws found another DDOS to deter

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.…

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Amazon Cloud Directory Demonstrates SOC and ISO Compliance

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.

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You've only gone and committed to becoming cloud native

Where do you start?

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.…

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You're the IT bod in charge of securing the cloud for your company. Welcome to Hell

How'd data leave country? Yep, control-V'd into a rando app the user set up

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.…

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CableLabs signs off MAC spec for DOCSIS full duplex

Fibre, schmibre: existing cable TV networks edge closer to symmetric 10 Gbps capabilities

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.…

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Patience you must have, says Voda: Biz in talks with Liberty Global for grabbing Euro assets

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Two ISPs mull tie-up

Brit-based comms colossus Vodafone is mulling snapping up wedges of European networks owned by American telecoms giant Liberty Global.…

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Web searching died the day they invented SEO

The truth is out there but you'll never find it

Something for the Weekend, Sir?  You can find anything on the internet apart from the specific thing you're looking for.…

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Google prints money for Alphabet to stuff into Uncle Sam's pockets: $10bn blow from Donald Trump's tax shakeup

Still made a huge profit in 2017

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.…

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Amazon manages to find a mere sliver of profit – just $2bn – out of $61bn in end-of-year sales

AWS continues to rake in billions, too

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.…

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Amazon Aurora Parallel Query is Available for Preview

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.

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New York lobs $210m at telcos to hook up 120k homes, businesses with bumpkin broadband

Funny story – Verizon didn't care until they were told other ISPs might do it

The US state of New York has unveiled a massive new project to provide broadband for virtually all of its residents.…

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Fujitsu in a funk over feeble network sales

Storage 'n' servers flat, PCs & tabs OK but mobes, base stations fall

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.…

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Openreach ups investment plans: Will shoot out full fibre to 3 million premises

Beginning of the end for copper?

BT's Openreach has unveiled plans to connect three million premises to full fibre by 2020, up 50 per cent on its previous goal.…

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AT&T's financial figures reveal 19 BEEELLLION reasons why it lobbied hard for US tax cuts

Telco gives 5% to staff, 5% for capex, windfall for shareholders

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.…

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