AWS Copilot CLI for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is now generally available with v1.0.0. The AWS Copilot CLI makes it easy to build, release, and operate production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS with the Fargate launch type. AWS Copilot incorporates AWS’s best practices, from infrastructure-as-code to continuous delivery, and makes them available to…
You now can restore Amazon DynamoDB tables even faster when recovering from data loss or corruption. The increased efficiency of restores and their ability to better accommodate workloads with imbalanced write patterns reduce table restore times across base tables of all sizes and data distributions. To accelerate the speed of restores for tables with secondary…
AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies, which allow you to configure access to the Systems Manager API. When you create Amazon VPC endpoints for Systems Manager, you can attach AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resource policies that restrict user access to Systems Manager API operations, when these…
In the U.S., we’re quickly coming up to the start of holiday season, meaning it’s time for, well, time off. I typically add technology maintenance jobs to the monthly mix of patching and maintaining servers and workstations. This month, I’m also taking time to better understand the impact of one specific security bulletin — I…
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now offers consumer lag metrics for new Amazon MSK clusters by default, making it easier for you to track whether your applications are consuming the latest data available in your Apache Kafka cluster. Consumer lag metrics quantify the difference between the latest data written to Apache Kafka topics…
AWS Client VPN is now available in the Paris, Milan, Cape Town, Bahrain, and Hong Kong Regions. This increases global coverage of AWS Client VPN and brings the total number of available Regions to twenty. Source:: Amazon AWS
Apple believes in your right to privacy. Here is some advice on how to use the privacy tools it provides on your Mac. We have a guide for iPhones and iPads here. Use a strong passcode To secure your Mac, all your data, and your privacy it is essential to create a strong alphanumeric login password.…
Its new Spotlight feature will use an algorithm to recommend “the most engaging” posts to a user. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Charli D’Amelio hit the record just days after becoming involved in a row over a video. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Instagram is tracking basically everything you do. Seriously — their privacy policy, such as it is, might be one of the broadest I’ve ever seen. For example, if you use their in-app camera, they reserve the right to analyze what’s in the image and therefore learn more about your surroundings. They also potentially share information…
Canterbury-based UK ISP Orbital Net (Vfast) has today signed a new multi-million pound deal with Park Holidays UK, which will see 13,000 holiday homes across Britain being provided with access to a new “high-speed broadband” connection. The proposed technology solution looks to be the same one as they use on their Vfast brand, which will…
UK watchdog Which says consumers are at risk of having their home networks compromised. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Some users received kitchen equipment or pet food instead of their anticipated consoles. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Windows 10 has always offered multiple methods for attempting OS recovery. But with the release of Windows 10 version 2004 on May 27, 2020, one of those recovery methods disappeared from its previous home in Settings > Update & Security > Recovery. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story) Source:: Computerworld
The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that the telecoms industry has gone from last year’s report, when it was the fastest growing sector for R&D spending (up 25.4% to total £947m by the end of 2018), to this year (2019) when spending on research and development grew by just 0.95% to total…
UK ISP Hyperoptic, which specialises in building 1Gbps capable “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks to large residential (MDU) and office buildings, has today announced a new partnership with Metropolitan Thames Valley (MTV) to rollout their “hyperfast” service across a “large proportion of its housing portfolio.” At present MTV is said to provide housing at different…
UK broadband ISP iDNET has today announced that they’ve signed a 5-year deal with BTWholesale to help migrate their entire “phone network” to an all-IP solution in advance of the 2025 digital switch-over (when old analogue phones services are due to be withdrawn). Openreach (BT) currently expects to withdraw the traditional analogue Public Switched Telephone…
Mobile network operator Vodafone has today become the latest telecoms giant to make a major climate related commitment, which will see them reduce their total global carbon emissions to ‘net zero’ by 2040 (i.e. removing as many emissions as they produce) – ten years sooner than previously planned. Just for comparison, Sky (Sky Broadband, Sky…
At present, web applications have become the top targets for attackers because of potential monetization opportunities. Security breaches on the web application can cost millions. Strikingly, DNS (Domain Name System) related outage and Distributed denial of service (DDoS) lead a negative impact on businesses. Among the wide range of countermeasures, a web application firewall is…
Mobile operator Smarty has reduced the monthly prices of their top two SIM Only tariffs by up to 25% as part of a new Black Friday promotion for new customers, which means that their biggest unlimited calls, texts and data (mobile broadband) plan is now just £15 per month for 12 months (£20 thereafter). On…