Tag: AWS

December 6, 2021

Records have been written for thousands of years, in many scripts and on many media. Clay tablets, stone tablets, wax tablets, papyrus, parchment, and paper all preceded digital media. In our hurry to move from paper to digital media, the […]

November 29, 2021

The three big cloud providers, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), want developers and data scientists to develop, test, and deploy machine learning models on their clouds. It’s a lucrative endeavor for them because […]

November 23, 2021

Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has put out a preview of its custom Amazon Linux distro (AL2022), while committing to refreshing the distro every two years. Amazon Linux is popular with AWS users for its tight integration […]

October 11, 2021

In 2015 Capital One CIO Rob Alexander took the AWS re:Invent stage to declaim the company’s independence from its traditional data centers, shifting instead to a reliance on AWS to run its infrastructure. The company went from eight data centers […]

September 27, 2021

Among the biggest considerations companies face when selecting public cloud service providers is the level of cyber security they offer, meaning the features and capabilities they put in place to protect their own networks and services and to keep their […]

September 20, 2021

It may well have done more to push forward cloud-native computing techniques than any other company on the planet, but Google Cloud continues to struggle to turn that engineering prowess into an enterprise toolkit to rival Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]

August 11, 2021

The National Security Agency (NSA) has awarded a secret cloud computing contract reportedly worth up to $10 billion to Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to reports. Code-named WildandStormy, Nextgov reports that while details about the contract are few and far […]

May 24, 2021

With a strategic five-year plan, Bureau Veritas (BV) set out on its digital transformation project in 2015. Core to that transformation was migration of the vast bulk of its applications and infrastructure to the AWS cloud. Along the way, it […]

April 22, 2021

US operator DISH Network has entered into a partnership with cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) to transform how organisations order and consume 5G services or create their own private 5G networks. Under the strategic collaboration agreement, DISH has selected […]

April 6, 2021

Verizon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have a real-world customer, in the form of Corning’s fiber optic cable factory, for their Private 5G Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) service with AWS Outposts. The combination of the two technologies brings the security, […]

March 22, 2021

As a wise cloud architect once said, “I’ve got 99 problems and the cloud ain’t one” (props to Jay-Z). The cloud made running applications and services on a massive scale much easier. Yet cloud computing brings its own problems. For […]

January 13, 2021

Digital collaboration tool Zoom has clarified who its favorite cloud provider really is as the firm looks to instigate a huge funding push. In a new preliminary prospectus, the company revealed that it hopes to raise $1.75 billion through a […]

December 21, 2020

After leading the public sector practice at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Teresa Carlson has expanded her role in 2020 to include the firm’s financial services, energy services, telecommunications, and aerospace and satellite industry business units, and is using a cross-sector […]

December 10, 2020

Arm has set out plans to cut its global datacentre footprint in size by 45% and reduce its use of on-premise compute resources by 80% by offloading some of its core compute tasks to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. […]

December 4, 2020

As it opens this week, AWS re:Invent is not taking place in Vegas but is virtual and free. Virtual events are a silver lining of the pandemic because they keep me off airplanes and eliminate seven miles of walking each […]

October 13, 2020

Docker announced that they are open-sourcing the code for the beta implementations of the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Microsoft Azure Container Instances (ACI) Compose integrations. Further to creating an open community for developing Compose specification, this is the […]

September 28, 2020

When working with с web applications, you will want to protect certain pieces of application data, called user secrets, that should not be shared with others. Your user secrets might include a database connection string that also contains the user […]

August 31, 2020

Kubernetes isn’t even six years old, but it’s already everyone’s favorite container orchestration program. Datadog, a cloud and infrastructure monitoring company, found Kubernetes dominating the container space: “Roughly 45% of Datadog customers running containers use Kubernetes.” Other container orchestration programs, […]

August 17, 2020

Running large numbers of containers to deploy an application requires a rethink of the role of the operating system. Google’s Container-Optimized OS and AWS’s Bottlerocket take the traditional virtualization paradigm and apply it to the operating system, with containers the […]

August 11, 2020

Nutanix has announced general availability of Nutanix Clusters hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. Key use cases targeted are the ability to lift and shift workloads to the public cloud, in particular in cloud-bursting scenarios […]