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How To Attach Your EBS volume to multiple EC2 instances

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Are you exhausted from the complexities and the extra cost associated with the EFS? What if you simply need to share the EBS volume between two EC2 instances? Say no more - Amazon Web Services has an answer for you! Starting today, customers running Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can take advantage of new support for  attaching  Provisioned IOPS ( io1 ) EBS volumes to  multiple EC2 instances , at  no extra charge ! Multi-Attach option in EBS According to AWS, the Multi-Attach capability makes it easier to achieve higher availability for applications that provide write-ordering to maintain storage consistency. Consider the following scenario: you are running a web application behind the load balancer, and the application expects static assets, such as WordPress media uploads, theme or configuration files, shared between the instances. Instead of using EFS, you could create new PIOPS EBS volume with the Multi-Attach option, mount t...

AWS EC2 Instances Per-Second Billing

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AWS announced per-second billing for EC2 and EBS Volumes Effective October 2, 2017 Available for On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instance Types EBS Storage gains same benefits as well Also applies to Amazon EMR and AWS Batch Amazon Web Services provides flexible, secure and scalable cloud platform for the masses, and according to the Gartner Research, is a leader in this field. Today, they announced another useful feature which will change the level of the playing field again: Effective 10/02/2017, usage of Linux instances that are launched in On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot form will be billed in one-second increments. Similarly, provisioned storage for EBS volumes will be billed in one-second increments. Per-second billing also applies to Amazon EMR and AWS Batch. AWS is used by more than 1 million people from "organizations of every size across nearly every industry," Jeff Bezos wrote in his letter to shareholders. Per-second Billing Advantages With...

Enable HTTP/2 Support in AWS ELB

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This thread  was started more than a year ago, asking for when Amazon Web Services will add support for HTTP/2  into their ELB. In addition to that, people are also asking, how to configure ELB to support multiple SSL certificates. AWS support team has been reluctant on giving out any specific details on when both of these features will be available, citing: I've verified that the ELB team is aware of the interest in ELB supporting HTTP/2. Please keep an eye on What's New from Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com/new/ for any updates. What is HTTP/2? HTTP/2 is a replacement for how HTTP is expressed “on the wire.” It is not a ground-up rewrite of the protocol; HTTP methods, status codes and semantics are the same, and it should be possible to use the same APIs as HTTP/1.x (possibly with some small additions) to represent the protocol. HTTP/2 protocol is supported by major modern browsers including IE11, Edge 13, Firefox 47, Chrome 52, Safari 9.1, Opera 38, ...

Zend Framework 3 Now Available

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The Greatest Framework Since ZF 1 After 17 months of effort, hundreds of releases, tens of thousands of commits by hundreds of contributors, and millions of installs, Zend finally announced the immediate availability of Zend Framework 3 . Increased Performance According to Zend, the performance increase is ~ 4x on PHP 5, and even greater performance on PHP 7 - which is now fully supported - compared to previous version of Zend Framework. Naturally, they claim that they have improved documentation. Ships with a Micro-Framework The Zend Framework 3 also included a number of new features, primarily around PSR-7 (HTTP Message interfaces) support. These include: Diactoros : the original and leading PSR-7 implementation in the PHP ecosystem. Stratigility : a PSR-7 middleware foundation based on the node.js Sencha Connect Expressive : a PSR-7 middleware microframework If you are already familiar with our MVC, or want to get started with it, we have created a new ve...

Z-Ray Standalone Tech Preview for Linux/OSX available for download

Z-Ray Technology Preview The most advanced debugging & productivity technology for PHP developers - now on your own PHP stack! In just a few steps, you can start introspecting the insides of your code and apps using Z-Ray. Currently supported on Linux and Mac OS X. Z-Ray Standalone Tech Preview for Linux/OSX available for download https://t.co/x4HolzbJJS #PHP #Zend #ZRay #OSX #Linux #debug #technology — Jaan Paljasma (@jpaljasma) October 22, 2015

Amazon Announced New S3 Usability Enhancements

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Amazon S3 Adds Two New Long-Awaited Features Bucket Limit Increase You can now increase your Amazon S3 bucket limit per AWS account. All AWS accounts have a default bucket limit of 100 buckets, and starting today you can now request additional buckets by visiting AWS Service Limits. Read-after-write Consistency Amazon S3 now supports read-after-write consistency for new objects added to Amazon S3 in US Standard region. Prior to this announcement, all regions except US Standard supported read-after-write consistency for new objects uploaded to Amazon S3. With this enhancement, Amazon S3 now supports read-after-write consistency in all regions for new objects added to Amazon S3. Read-after-write consistency allows you to retrieve objects immediately after creation in Amazon S3. Now go ahead and bump the # of S3 buckets in AWS Service Limits page.

Tesla patches Model S after researchers hack car's software

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Not even automakers like Tesla are immune to hacking Two researchers - Kevin Mahaffey, CTO of security startup Lookout, and Marc Rogers, a security researcher at CloudFlare - said they were able to take control of a Tesla Model S by hacking into the car's entertainment system. When the car was cruising at less than five miles per hour or idling, the researchers were able to apply the emergency hand brake, bringing the car to an immediate stop. Physical access to the car was necessary Researchers emphasized that physical access to the car was needed to carry out the hack. For their research, he and Rogers plugged a laptop into a Model S ethernet port and exploited the vulnerabilities until they tapped into the entertainment software. Back in the old days one would simply cut few wires or brake cables. Patch applied Over-the-Air It’s impossible to prevent an attack from hitting a car’s computer system, Mahaffey said. “The question is how do you respond quickly with ...