Month: September 2015

Amazon EMR now includes Spark 1.5, Presto, Hue, intelligent resize, and HDFS encryption

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You can now deploy new applications on your Amazon EMR cluster and take advantage of intelligent cluster resizing. Amazon EMR release 4.1.0 offers an upgraded version of Apache Spark (1.5.0), Hue 3.7.1 as a GUI for creating and running Hive and Pig workloads, and the Hadoop Key Management Server (KMS) component for transparent encryption in Read more about Amazon EMR now includes Spark 1.5, Presto, Hue, intelligent resize, and HDFS encryption[…]

New AWS Security Training Classes

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Information security is deeply important to our customers and one of today’s most sought after IT specialties. So today we’re launching a new AWS Training curriculum to help customers meet their cloud security objectives under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model. The curriculum’s two new classes are designed to help customers create more secure AWS architectures Read more about New AWS Security Training Classes[…]

How to Add Ngx_pagespeed to Nginx on CentOS 7

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Introduction Ngx_pagespeed, or just pagespeed, is an Nginx module designed to optimize your site automatically by reducing the size of its resources and hence the time the clients’ browsers need to load it. If you are not acquainted with it already, please check its official site. This article will guide you through the installation and Read more about How to Add Ngx_pagespeed to Nginx on CentOS 7[…]

How To Set Up VNC Server on Debian 8

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Introduction VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is a system that enables users to connect and interact with graphical desktops of remote computers. It can transmit screen updates, and keyboard and mouse events, over the network. VNC is useful when you need a graphical desktop environment for your server. XFCE is a lightweight desktop environment. Because it Read more about How To Set Up VNC Server on Debian 8[…]

How To Set Up Multi-Factor Authentication for SSH on Ubuntu 14.04

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Introduction An authentication factor is a single piece of information used to to prove you have the rights to perform an action, like logging into a system. An authentication channel is the way an authentication system delivers a factor to the user or requires the user to reply. Passwords and security tokens are examples of Read more about How To Set Up Multi-Factor Authentication for SSH on Ubuntu 14.04[…]

AWS Trusted Advisor adds two new checks for CloudFront

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AWS Support announces two new AWS Trusted Advisor checks that offer best practices for using CloudFront, focusing on security enhancement and performance improvement: CloudFront Header Forwarding and Cache Hit Ratio (Performance category): Checks for HTTP request headers that CloudFront forwards to the origin that might significantly reduce the cache hit ratio and increase the load Read more about AWS Trusted Advisor adds two new checks for CloudFront[…]