Tag: Pricing

Feed: Recent Announcements. OpsCenter complements existing case management systems by enabling integrations via Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and public AWS SDKs. You can also maintain any manual lifecycle workflows in your current systems and leverage OpsCenter as a remediation hub. By aggregating information from AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail logs, resource descriptions, and Amazon CloudWatch Events, OpsCenter helps you reduce the mean time to resolution (MTTR) of incidents, alarms, and operational tasks.   OpsCenter is currently available in all commercial Regions. This feature is priced on a pay-per-use model. See the AWS Systems Manager Pricing page for details. You can ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Firewall Manager will automatically audit new resources and rules, as customers add resources or security group rule(s) to their accounts. At launch, customers can enable audit checks for two common use cases. First, customers can audit for overly permissive security group rules such as rules with wide range of ports or CIDR ranges or rules that have enabled all protocols to access resources. Second, customers can audit for high-risk applications that are open to wide CIDR ranges (eg. 0.0.0.0/0. ::/0) or open to local CIDR ranges (eg. 1.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0./12). Customers can choose from pre-defined application and ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Announces Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer Industry’s first fully managed cloud region brings 100% of Oracle’s public cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Cloud applications, to customer datacenters Pricing starts at only $500K per month, a small fraction of what customers would have to pay for a one-off region from other cloud providers Customers include Nomura Research Institute (NRI) in Japan and Oman Information and Communications Technology Group Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Driven by strong customer demand, Oracle today announced Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, the industry’s first fully-managed cloud region that ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Autonomous Database Now Available in Customer Datacenters Addresses data sovereignty, security, and performance concerns that prevent some enterprise workloads from moving to the public cloudCrédit Agricole, Entel, and Samsung SDS welcome Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Building on the success of Oracle’s Exadata Cloud@Customer service over the last three years, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer. This new offering combines the latest Oracle Database with the fastest Oracle Database platform—Exadata—delivered as a cloud service in customer datacenters. It eliminates database management and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, AWS customers can enable Spot Instances for AWS Marketplace Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products while launching new instances through the EC2 console Launch Instance Wizard (LIW). With this launch, you can reduce costs on the EC2 instances you need to run your third-party software on AWS. Spot Instances enable you to request unused EC2 instances at steep discounts- up to 90% compared to On-Demand prices- so you can lower your Amazon EC2 costs. Spot Instances are a cost-effective choice if have flexibility with running your third-party applications and if your applications are fault-tolerant. Customers—including Salesforce, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Tutanota and ProtonMail are our two top-rated services when it comes to encrypted email. They’re neck and neck in our roundup of the most secure email providers, and it’s easy to see why. Both offer excellent free plans, they’re packed to the brim with features and, above all else, they’ll keep your messages safe.  In this Tutanota vs ProtonMail comparison, though, we’re going to find which is the better option between the two. From security and privacy to ease of use and customer service, we’re going to compare these two encrypted email service point-by-point.  If ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Gopikrishna Kannan. Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available and includes Azure Firewall Policy, Azure Firewall in a Virtual WAN Hub (Secure Virtual Hub), and Hub Virtual Network. In addition, we are introducing several new capabilities to Firewall Manager and Firewall Policy to align with the standalone Azure Firewall configuration capabilities. Key features in this release include:Threat intelligence-based filtering allow list in Firewall Policy is now generally available.Multiple public IP addresses support for Azure Firewall in Secure Virtual Hub is now generally available.Forced tunneling support for Hub Virtual Network is now generally available.Configuring secure virtual ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon DocumentDB now supports t3.medium instances, which are 72% cheaper than r5.large instances. Using t3.medium instances with Amazon DocumentDB is a cost-effective option for dev/test, QA, and small production workloads. Amazon DocumentDB t3.medium instances are configured for Unlimited mode and can sustain high CPU performance for any period of time required. The hourly instance price automatically covers all CPU usage spikes if the average CPU utilization of the instance is at or below the baseline over a rolling 24-hour period or the instance lifetime, whichever is shorter. For the vast majority of general-purpose workloads, instances configured as ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Anjali Vijayakumar. By Anjali Vijayakumar, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Sohaib Tahir, Senior Solutions Architect at AWSAWS Direct Connect is a networking service that allows for hybrid connectivity between customers’ on-premises environments (data centers, offices, or colocation environments) and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. With AWS Direct Connect, the internet is bypassed entirely and customers get physical dedicated connectivity to AWS, allowing for a more consistent, predictable performance. Many customers rely on AWS Direct Connect Partners to get access to Direct Connect connections so they can connect to AWS. These trusted AWS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Ben Peven. This post is contributed by Scott Horsfield – Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, EC2 SpotAmazon EC2 Spot Instances are spare compute capacity in the AWS Cloud available to you at steep discounts compared to On-Demand Instance prices. The only difference between an On-Demand Instance and a Spot Instance is that a Spot Instance can be interrupted by Amazon EC2 with two minutes of notification when EC2 needs the capacity back. Fortunately, there is a lot of spare capacity available, and handling interruptions in order to build resilient workloads with EC2 Spot is simple and ... Read More