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.
