We are excited to announce support for 1G and 10G Link Aggregation Groups (LAG). Customers in US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions can start using LAG to link existing connections on the same AWS device, or request new connections. Users who wish to purchase multiple ports, but treat them like a single managed connection can now use our LAG feature to do just this. In addition to ordering and managing bundles, you can now see when your ports fall on the same router so you can manage your network availability.

Today we are introducing the Elastic Volumes feature for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). This new capability allows you to modify configurations of live volumes with a simple API call or a few console clicks. Elastic Volumes makes it easy to dynamically increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of any new or existing current generation volume with no downtime or performance impact. You can streamline and automate changes using Amazon CloudWatch with AWS Lambda. With Amazon EBS you can provision the capacity and performance you need today with the confidence that you can make modifications in the future as your business needs change.

Amazon Chime is now available to all customers. Amazon Chime is a modern, fully-managed communications service from AWS that makes it easy for you to communicate with people inside and outside your organization using voice, video, and chat. With Amazon Chime, online meetings are easier and more efficient, crystal clear audio and high definition video keep you focused on the discussion, and the service is designed to work seamlessly across desktops and mobile devices. Because Amazon Chime is a managed service that runs on AWS, it doesn’t require you to deploy or maintain complex infrastructure and software. And you benefit from the security that comes with a data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. 

You can improve the security of your sign in to AWS services, such as Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon QuickSight , by enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) when using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as Microsoft AD. Enabling MFA helps improve the security of your applications because users must enter a one-time passcode (OTP) in addition to their Active Directory (AD) user name and password. AWS Microsoft AD supports both virtual and hardware MFA OTP tokens.

CH2M Hill Singapore Pte has been appointed by water agency PUB as the Detailed Design Consultant for the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant…

 

Israeli wastewater treatment company Emefcy has secured a second project in Ethiopia…

 

The driverless thing seems to be eluding a lot of people. Google and Apple reportedly have dropped plans to develop driverless cars in favour of developing licenseable driverless technology. Ford says it will put $1 billion over the next five years into driverless car developer Argo AI a company founded late last year in which …

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Whenever I meet my old mates from the industry I’ve noticed that the subject of Honours always crops up, Ed confides to his diary. It’s always done in a jokey, casual way as though they think it funny that I could have this power of patronage, but underneath I detect calculation – they really want …

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ARM had Q4 revenues of £402 million compared to £266 million for Q3. Licensing revenue was £169 million, royalty revenue was £210 million and software and services revenue was £23 million. EBITDA was £234 million. The UK staffing level was 1853 in Q4 up from 1770 in Q3. When SoftBank bought ARM last June it …

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Thanks to MWS , who kicked off this whole idea, and to the 16 people who supported it, our petition to parliament to Enable UK Roaming has now been approved by the government’s petitions team. Here is the link to our petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/182306 This is the email from the government Petitions Team saying that the …

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