Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Enhanced Monitoring which gives you near-real time access to a set of 26 system metrics and per process metrics for your instance. Source: Amazon Web Services News
Amazon CloudWatch Events is now supported in AWS CloudFormation templates. Source: Amazon Web Services News
AWS CloudTrail, a service that captures specific API calls and delivers log files to an Amazon S3 bucket, now includes logging for the AWS Support API. This allows you to track API calls made from the AWS Support console or from your code to the AWS Support APIs. Log information includes the API action, the Read more about AWS Support API now integrated with CloudTrail[…]
The Amazon CloudWatch Events service is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region. Source: Amazon Web Services News
Introduction TLS, or transport layer security, and its predecessor SSL, which stands for secure sockets layer, are web protocols used to wrap normal traffic in a protected, encrypted wrapper. Using this technology, servers can send traffic safely between the server and clients without the possibility of the messages being intercepted by outside parties. The certificate Read more about How To Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Apache in Ubuntu 16.04[…]
You can now use Apache HBase 1.2 on Amazon EMR release 4.6.0. Apache HBase is a massively scalable, distributed big data store in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It is an open-source, non-relational, versioned database which runs on top of the Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS), and it is built for random, strictly consistent realtime access for Read more about Apache HBase 1.2 Now Available on Amazon EMR for Realtime Access for Massive Datasets[…]
Amazon VPC Flow Logs is now available in the Sao Paulo region. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from your VPC. Once enabled for a particular VPC, VPC subnet or Elastic Network Interface (ENI), relevant network traffic will be logged to CloudWatch Read more about Announcing Amazon VPC Flow Logs Support in Sao Paulo Region[…]
Introduction The Ubuntu operating system’s most recent Long Term Support version, version 16.04 (Xenial Xerus), was released on April 21, 2016. This guide is intended as a brief overview of new features and significant changes to the system as a whole, since 14.04 LTS, from the perspective of server system administration. It draws on the Read more about What’s New in Ubuntu 16.04[…]
Introduction TLS, or transport layer security, and its predecessor SSL, which stands for secure sockets layer, are web protocols used to wrap normal traffic in a protected, encrypted wrapper. Using this technology, servers can send traffic safely between the server and clients without the possibility of the messages being intercepted by outside parties. The certificate Read more about How To Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Nginx in Ubuntu 16.04[…]
You can now use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to create WebM outputs using the VP9 codec. VP9 is primarily used for web video and achieves lower bitrates without sacrificing quality. You can try out this format by using the newly available system presets. Source: Amazon Web Services News