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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...

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, ...

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 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 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.

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 ...

AWS announced Aurora  MySQL compatible database engine last November. Aurora is a fully-managed, MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. What is AWS Aurora? Amazon Aurora is a relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It delivers up to five times the throughput of standard MySQL running on the same hardware. Amazon Aurora increases MySQL performance and availability by tightly integrating the database engine with an SSD-backed virtualized storage layer purpose-built for database workloads. Amazon Aurora's storage is fault-tolerant and self-healing. If the entire instance fails, Amazon Aurora will automatically failover to one of up to 15 read replicas. MySQL 5.6 Compatibility According to the AWS...