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Flexible Engine Elastic Cloud Server introduces a new feature for changing flavors and series
June, 2022
Elastic Cloud Server is updated with a new feature ‘Modify Specifications’ that enables to change The ECS’s flavor.
Learn moreKey Management Service (KMS) now available in Amsterdam
May, 2022
Now it’s possible to request the terminatKey Management Service (KMS) is a secure, reliable and easy-to-use cloud service that helps users create, manage and protect keys centrally.
Learn moreMulti-tenants management : selfcare tenant termination
May, 2022
For organizations that need to manage several Flexible Engine domains, like large companies or Orange partners or resellers, the “partner login” of the Cloud Customer Space is a well-adapted feature allowing you to manage these domains. With a “partner login” you can for example create new Flexible Engine domains from the Cloud Customer Space. It is now possible to terminate these domains as well.
Learn moreIntroducing Dedicated Load Balancer (Beta)
May, 2022
A new version of the Elastic Load Balancer service called Dedicated Load Balancer will be available in Beta phase during the 1st half of May 2022. The service is not yet covered by SLAs during the Beta phase period and may be discontinued for upgrade purposes.
Learn moreIntroducing FunctionGraph a new computing feature on Flexible Engine
April, 2022
FunctionGraph is a Function as a Service solution that hosts and computes event-driven functions in a serverless context…
Learn more[CCE Update] k8s 1.21 version & migration tool 1.19 to 1.21
April, 2022
Detailed explanation of the CCE update and the new k8s 1.21 release and 1.21 migration tool.
Learn moreCloud Backup and Recovery (CBR) : Cross Region support Paris-Amsterdam
March, 2022
Cloud Backup and Recovery is the new generation backup tool of Flexible Engine. It allows you to easily backup your ECSs, BMSs, EVS disks and SFS Turbo file systems. In case of a virus intrusion, accidental deletion, or software or hardware fault, you can restore data to any backup point.
Learn moreHost Security Service (HSS) available on Elastic Cloud Servers (ECS)
March, 2022
Host Security Service (HSS) is a reliable security manager for servers. It improves overall host security and provides functions, such as vulnerability management, asset management, baseline inspection, and intrusion detection to discover intrusions immediately and meet compliance requirements.
Learn moreNew Data Express Service (DES) available on Flexible Engine cloud
March, 2022
Data Express Service (DES) is a TB scale data transmission service. It uses physical storage media (Teleport devices) to transmit a large amount of data from enterprise data centers to the cloud.
Learn more[DeH] New C6 hosts in Paris region for compute-intensive use cases
March, 2022
Dedicated Host (DeH) is Flexible Engine’s compute service based on Openstack which ensures isolation, security, and performance for your instances.
Learn moreDirect Connect Premium: Link Aggregation Group support
February, 2022
Direct Connect Link Aggregation Group (LAG) now allows Flexible Engine users to connect their private network to the cloud by aggregating connections at a single Direct Connect Gateway (nx1 Gbps or nx10 Gbp), for bigger bandwidth or redundancy purposes.
Learn moreDDM, RDS, DRS enhancements on the Flexible Engine cloud
February, 2022
Discover the new updates that have been made to Data Replication Service (DRS), Document Database Service (DDS) and Relational Database Service (RDS).
Learn more[PFS] Parallel File System available in Paris and Amsterdam
February, 2022
Parallel File System (PFS), a sub-product of Object Storage Service (OBS), is a high-performance file system, with access latency in milliseconds. PFS can support a bandwidth performance up to the TB/s level and supports millions of input/output operations per second (IOPS), which makes it ideal for processing high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Learn more[IEF] Intelligent Edge Fabric launched in Beta Mode
February, 2022
Cloud computing capabilities are centralized, which are far from devices such as cameras and sensors. It causes long network latency, network congestion, and service quality deterioration in scenarios where high real-time computing performance is required. Furthermore, the computing capabilities of devices are insufficient and far behind those in the cloud. This is where edge computing comes in. By deploying edge nodes near devices, the computing capabilities in the cloud are extended to the edge nodes.
Learn moreObject Storage Service (OBS) : pre signed URL for Object Storage
January, 2022
Each request initiated by an app client applies for a presigned URL from the app server. The validity period of the presigned URL is 900 seconds (feature update ongoing to allow duration setting).
Learn moreVirtual Private Cloud (VPC) route table : possibility to add, modify and delete system routes
January, 2022
For customers who want to host on Flexible Engine security appliances like Stormshield, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point to filter east-west traffic (Between VPC, Between VPC and on premises) and south-north traffic, it is now possible to add, modify and delete system routes (i.e. routes to Direct Connect gateway or routes to VPN gateway) through the FE technical console.
The possibility to manipulate Route Table through API will be available during 3rd Quarter 2022.
Learn moreFlexible Engine is expanding its reach in Europe and changing its strategy in the United States
January, 2022
The Atlanta region will no longer be supported by Flexible Engine starting July 30th, 2022. However, we are pursuing our expansion into Europe to continue to deliver the full richness of our Flexible Engine offer by proposing an alternative solution based on our multi-cloud expertise.
Most Flexible Engine users choose to deploy their resources in the Paris and Amsterdam region. In comparison, only a few multinationals customers are using the Atlanta region, mainly as a satellite for small workloads since most of their activities are based in Europe, which is closer to their headquarters. Overall, customer demand is lower in the United States than expected which does not justify further expansion.
Learn moreObject Storage Service (OBS) supports cross-region replication
January, 2022
Cross-region replication provides a solution for disaster recovery across regions, allowing users to set up a remote backup solution.
Cross-region replication refers to the process of automatically and asynchronously replicating data from a bucket (source bucket) to another bucket (destination bucket) across regions by creating a cross-region replication rule. The source bucket and destination bucket must belong to the same account. Replication across accounts is not supported.
For a cross-region replication rule, users can configure it to match a pre-defined object prefix so that all objects with this prefix will be replicated. Alternatively, they can configure the rule to apply to the whole bucket so that all objects in the bucket will be replicated. Objects replicated to the destination bucket are precise copies of objects in the source bucket. They have the same object names, metadata, content, size, last modification time, creator, version ID, user-defined metadata, and ACLs. By default, the storage class of an object copy is the same as that of the source object. Users can also specify a different storage class for an object copy.
Learn moreObject Storage Resiliency over 3 AZ is now available in Amsterdam region.
January, 2022
OBS 3.0 (DFV, Data functions virtualization) is a new generation of OBS. Compared to OBS 2.0, its hardware and software architectures have been optimized for large-scale distributed object storage. All functions and interfaces remain unchanged.
There is no impact on existing solutions and customers’ architectures:
- Buckets created in OBS mono AZ stays unchanged
- No possibility to have a bucket change technology between mono AZ and multi-AZ
- Price between mono and multi AZ OBS is unchanged. It is hence highly recommended to customers to prefer multi AZ OBS (higher resiliency)
Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR) now available in Amsterdam
January, 2022
Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR) is the new all in one backup solution of Flexible Engine and is now available in Amsterdam.
It will replace VBS (Volume Backup Service) and CSBS (Cloud Server Backup Service).
Therefore, it is highly advised to use CBR from now on to setup your backup policies.
Cloud Backup and Recovery allows users to back up cloud disks, elastic cloud servers (referred to as servers). If there is a virus intrusion, accidental deletion, or software or hardware fault, data can be restored to any point in the past when the data was backed up.
CBR protects your services by ensuring the security and accuracy of your data.
Learn moreWeb Application Firewall (WAF)
January, 2022
Web Application Firewall (WAF) keeps web services stable and secure. It examines all HTTP and HTTPS requests to detect and block the following attacks: Structured Query Language (SQL) injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), web shells, command and code injections, file inclusion, sensitive file access, third-party vulnerability exploits, Challenge Collapsar (CC) attacks, malicious crawlers, and cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
You can add either domain names or IP addresses to WAF.
WAF makes it easier for you to handle web security risks.
Learn moreMulti-tenants management: extra features
January, 2022
On request, OBS provides you a “partner login” to allow your teams manage your multiple tenants.
A number of features already exist to help you manage several tenants :
Transversal access in the Cloud Customer Space : read-only access in the Cloud Customer Space, to all your Flexible Engine tenants – no access to the technical console of your domains.
Online tenant creation : an option of the “partner login” allows you to create new tenants
Access to the Administration portal : list of your tenants, users, “partner logins”, orders.
Learn moreIntroducing Flexible Engine’s new VDI solution: oneclick
December, 2021
Our Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution Workspace has won over many of our users. In order to cover more use cases we have decided to overhaul the core technology behind our Workspace service in favour of a more specialised solution provided by oneclick™ that will be integrated into Flexible Engine. The current version of our Workspace service will be closed June 15th 2022. Our new oneclick™ service will be available from December 15th 2021, with guidance and support for the simplest possible migration
Your usual contacts as well as our support service are at your disposal.
Learn moreChanges for Windows Servers licenses (BMS, DeH, ECS, RDS)
December, 2021
Microsoft has announced new pricing plans for its Business and Enterprise products and licenses. In view of this increase, Flexible Engine will be adjusting its prices for the services Bare Metal Server (BMS), Elastic Cloud Server (ECS), Dedicated Host (DeH), Relational Database Service (RDS). These new prices will take effect on the 1st of January 2022.
Key takeaways:
- The increase of costs on Windows Servers licenses will lead to an increase of 3% on average on RDS mSQL Standard and 1,5% on msSQL Entreprise
- On average the instances using Windows server licenses will increase prices by 17%
November, 2021
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
Learn moreVBS and CSBS update: merging into new CBR feature
November, 2021
Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR) is the new all in one backup solution of Flexible Engine. It will replace VBS (Volume Backup Service) and CSBS (Cloud Server Backup Service). Therefore, it is highly advised to use CBR from now on to setup your backup policies.
Learn moreCloud Container Engine – New Kubernetes 1.19 version and migration tool
September, 2021
Flexible Engine’s container management service: Cloud Container Engine now supports 1.19.10 kubernetes clusters. As of today you’ll be able to create kubernetes clusters in version 1.19, or upgrade your version 1.17 clusters to 1.19 with our provided migration tool.
Learn moreSeptember, 2021
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
ECS has receive the following updates:
We are introducing this month a price reduction to the windows licenses on ECS instances. If an instance using a Windows Server Operating System (OS) is powered on more than 650 hours during a month, the cost of the windows license will be capped to 650 hours. For ECS, Windows license is billed at the granularity of the hour. The maximum number of hours billed during the month will thus be decreased from 730 hours to 650 hours.
Learn moreMulti-tenants management : selfcare tenant creation
September, 2021
Because you manage large or complex infrastructures your organization might need several Flexible Engine tenants, in order to have your own process simplified (costs management, user management, support management, responsibilities over production resources etc). A number of features already exist to help you manage several tenants, the last one is the ability for all our customers to create their new tenants online.
Learn moreFlexible Engine Database services updates (RDS, DDS, DRS)
May, 2021
Flexible Engine has recieved a series of updates to its database services including Relationnal Database Service, Document Database Service and Data Replication Service.
Click here to learn more about this update.
Flexible Engine Self-Registration for French customers
May, 2021
It is now possible for French customers to fully enroll to Flexible engine. This feature is available via the “Souscrire” button of our Cloud Orange Business portal portal.
All you have to do is register by providing information in the registration form, and digitally sign the SEPA mandate that will be provided to you: you will receive your login details within a few minutes.
This feature complements the self-service registration for the 3-month free trial, which was already available for French customers (here).
Launch of Flexible Engine Stack
April, 2021
Market researches show that 90% of companies today follow a hybrid and multi-cloud approach. Orange Business Services continues to innovate by providing solutions that reply to this IT trend and announces the launch of Flexible Engine Stack starting April 2021.
Learn moreData Replication Service for MySQL Server & PostgreSQL Server
March 12, 2021
Data Replication Service (DRS) helps you migrate databases online and synchronize data in real time. It is stable, efficient, cost-effective, and easy to use.
It simplifies data migration processes and reduces migration costs.
You can use DRS to quickly transmit data between databases in various scenarios, the main functionality is the online migration of MySQL and Oracle Databases to or from our Cloud solution.
Learn moreCloud Container Engine: Update tool for 1.15 to 1.17
January 27, 2021
Cloud Container Engine (CCE) is Flexible Engine’s container managment service.
CCE has been updated to support the upgrade of 1.15 clusters to versions 1.17. Click through to learn more.
Learn moreJanuary 18, 2021
Relational Database Service (RDS) is Flexible Engine’s database management service. You can find more information regarding RDS here, and DDS technical documentation here.
Document Dabase Service (DDS) is Flexible Engine’s document database management service. You can find more information regarding DDS here, and DDS technical documentation here.
Learn moreJanuary 18, 2021
PI Gateway is Flexible Engine’s high performance API hosting service that allows you to build, manages and deploy APIs at any scale.
API Gateway now supports customised gateway responses and Appcode authorization.
Learn moreJanuary 18, 2021
Image Management Service provides flexible, self-service and comprehensive image management capabilities.
IMS has been updated to support snapshot based image creation.
Learn moreRDS Update: Support for PostgreSQL enhancement
January 8, 2021
Relational Database Service (RDS) is Flexible Engine’s database management service. You can find more information regarding RDS here, and DDS technical documentation here.
Feature Description
PostgreSQL Enhanced Edition is a PostgreSQL-based database service that provides user experience close to the Oracle Database 12c and retains all PostgreSQL functionalities.
This new PostgreSQL version includes system views, PL/SQL, data types, SQL syntax, and null value processing….
Flexible Engine Elastic Cloud Server introduces new S6 instance series for general-purpose use cases
January 1, 2021
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
Learn moreDecember 15, 2020
Support for Kubernetes 1.17.9 has been added.
CCE supports hybrid cluster creation by using Kubernetes 1.17.9 version.
EulerOS 2.5 and CentOs 7.7 are also supported as node Operating System.
Kubernetes 1.17 support SFS Turbo Attachment
SFS Turbo offers by demand, fast supply, flexible expansion, convenience and flexibility，it’s suitable for：DevOps，Container microservices，corporate office…
Learn moreDecember 15, 2020
Support for Kubernetes 1.15.6 has been added.
Support CentOS 7.5 version for kubernetes cluster version 1.15
The cluster’s node image can be created by using Centos 7.5 version
Autoscaler Feature enhancement
Node scaling policy can specify the node pools that need to be operated…
Flexible Engine Elastic Cloud Server introduces new P2S instances for GPU-accelerated use cases
September 1, 2020
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
Learn moreFlexible Engine Elastic Cloud Server introduces new PI2 instances for GPU-accelerated use cases
September 1, 2020
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
Learn moreAugust 1, 2020
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
Flexible Engine Elastic Cloud Server introduces new D3 instances for disk intensive use cases
July 1, 2020
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
Learn moreFlexible Engine Elastic Cloud Server update for AZ placement
July 1, 2020
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
Learn moreNew Feature: Scalable File Service Turbo
July 15, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note Scalable File Service (SFS) is a network attached storage (NAS) service that provides scalable high-performance file storage. SFS Turbo is an exclusive cloud file service provided by Flexible Engine. This service type is catered for enterprise NAS service scenarios, providing file services with QoS isolation. It features high availability and durability to support massive small files and applications requiring low latency and high IOPS…
Learn moreNew Feature: VPC Flow Log, now available in all regions
July 15, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note Virtual Private Cloud Flow Logs are now available for all Flexible Engine regions. A VPC flow log records information about the traffic going to and from a VPC. VPC flow logs help you monitor network traffic, analyze network attacks, and determine whether security group and network ACL rules require modification. This feature is accessed through the Virtual Private Cloud interface on the Flexible Engine Console…
Learn moreRelational Database Service update: Now available on Paris 3rd AZ
June 16, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note Relational Database Service is now available on the Paris region’s 3rd availability zone Eu-west-0c. This update allows you to make use of further optimised distributed database architectures. In order to create a new database instance within the new AZ (eu-west-0c), simply access your Flexible Engine technical console, and choose Relational Database Service…
Learn moreDocument Database Service update: MongoDB 4.0 support
June 15, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note Document Database Service (DDS) is a cloud computing-based NoSQL database. The latest stable version of the database engine, MongoDB 4.0 is now supported. With this upgrade, MongoDB 3.4 version is no longer supported. In order to create a new DDS instance with MongoDB 4.0 version, simply access your Flexible Engine technical console, and choose Document Database Service…
Learn moreRelational Database Service update: MySQL 8 support
June 15, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note MySQL is an object-relational database management system. The latest stable version of datebase engine, MySQL 8, is now live for Relational Database Service. MySQL 8 is available in the Relational Database Service. Sign in to the Flexible Engine Management Console, select MySQL, then the 8 version for DB engine version in Relational Database Service…
Learn moreJune 5, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note API Gateway is a high-performance, high-availability, and high-security API hosting service that helps enterprises build, manage, and deploy Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) at any scale. This microservice catalog facility provided to the customer. Create, publish and monitor APIs working as front doors to Applications while minimizing costs and risks…
Learn moreScalable File Service update: SFS Turbo
May 28, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note Scalable File Service Turbo is an exclusive cloud file service provided by Flexible Engine. This service type is catered for enterprise NAS service scenarios, providing file services with QoS isolation, low latency, and high IOPS. More information on SFS Turbo is available here. SFS Turbo features: Flexible interconnection: supports interconnection based on ECS and EVS, deploy as requirement…
Learn moreNew feature: Direct Connect Premium
May 25, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note Direct Connect is a Flexible Engine service that allows you to connect your internal private network to a Flexible Engine Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). To do that, you have 2 possibilities: Dedicated connections: You can deploy your own network routers on Flexible Engine Direct Connect locations and connect your routers to Flexible Engine direct connect routers…
Learn moreRDS Update: TDE encryption for MsSQL
May 20, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), on MsSQL Server is an encryption tool suited for Mircrosoft database. The feature will help you to encrypt data files and backup files using certificates to implement real-time I/O encryption and decryption on the database user. TDE for MsSQL is available in the Relational Database Service…
Learn moreNew feature: Server Migration Service
May 20, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note Server Migration Service (SMS) is a feature that allows the user to migrate physical or virtual servers (e.g. VMware) including the OS and all related data to the Flexible Engine platform. SMS allows you to seamlessly and efficiently migrate servers with just a few clicks…
Learn moreDistributed cache service update: redis 4.0, 5.0 and more
May 11, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note Flexible Engine’s Distributed Cache Service (DCS) in Paris has recieved a major update. DCS is a reliable and scalable Redis cache service fully hosted on Flexible Engine. With distributed technology, DCS supports large-scale, highly-concurrent accesses. Users are now able to upgrade to use this service with the most up-to-date versions of Redis: Redis 4.0 and 5.0. DCS includes a management console…
Learn more3rd Availability Zone now available in Paris
April 27, 2020
Flexible Engine / Release note Flexible Engine’s Paris region now supports a third availability zone or AZ. This major update will enhance the resiliency of the platform and any architecture that takes advantage of this new capability. This third availability zone will allow you to: Create and deploy cloud resources within this third availability zone. Distribute your services across multiple availability zones…
Learn moreVPC Update: VPC flow log for c3 ,cc3 and p2 computing flavors
April 15, 2020
VPC Flow Logs Flexible Engine / Fonctionnalités / Update The Virtual Private Cloud service on Flexible Engine has been updated to support VPC Flow Logs, that capture traffic information which is then viewable through the Log Tank Service. New Feature VPC Flow Log Feature description Flow Log is a feature that allows you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces…
Learn moreCTS Update: Key event notification
April 15, 2020
Cloud Trace Service Flexible Engine / Fonctionnalités / Update Flexible Engine’s Cloud Trace Service has been updated to support Key Event Notifications through the Simple Message Notification service. New Feature Cloud Trace Service Feature description Domain administrator scan configure the key event notification function on Cloud Trace Service (CTS). When a specified operation is performed, a notification is sent to specified users through the Simple Message Notification (SMN) service…
Learn moreWorkspace update: s3 flavor based workspace instances
April 15, 2020
Workspace Flexible Engine / Fonctionnalités / Update Up until today, Workspace in Paris used XEN hypervisor flavors (s1 and c2) to create general desktops. As of this update, Workspace will make use of the KVM hypervisor flavor s3 to create desktops. In order to preserve consistency, the naming of the flavors shown in the Workspace console will not change…
Learn moreFlexible Engine Elastic Cloud Server introduces new M6 instances for memory optimized use cases
April 5, 2020
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
Learn moreFlexible Engine Elastic Cloud Server introduces new C6 instances for dedicated computing use cases
April 5, 2020
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
Learn more