Tag: AWS

February 19, 2019

In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced Azure Cost Management has reached general availability (GA). Azure Cost Management provides a native cost management solution for enterprise customers which allows organizations to manage and optimize Azure costs across their subscriptions using […]

November 30, 2018

A recent press release reports, “Qualys, Inc., a pioneer and a leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, today announced an integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Hub, introducing Qualys vulnerability and policy compliance findings within AWS Security […]

September 25, 2018

The global Cloud market is set to reach $390bn by 2020, representing a compound annual growth rate of 17% since 2015. That opportunity – alongside the underlying Cloud architecture requirements of emerging technologies like mobile, cyber security, big data, the […]

July 12, 2018

Today Snowflake Computing announced that its data warehouse-as-a-service is immediately available on Microsoft Azure for preview. Up until today, Snowflake’s WaaS only ran on AWS. This expansion allows an entirely new set of customers to take advantage of the benefits […]

July 6, 2018

Alibaba Cloud’s expansion outside of China and Asia Pacific has been well documented – and now the provider is firming up its commitments with the launch of a new EMEA partner program. The partner program will aim to look at […]

June 29, 2018

According to a recent press release, “Demisto, an innovator in Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) technology, today announced integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to allow customers to automate tasks across AWS services. As the first SOAR platform to […]

June 22, 2018

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has total geographic dominance in public cloud – but while Microsoft and Google secure second and third place through most of the globe, Alibaba is a clear second in APAC. This is the key finding from […]

June 15, 2018

Application intelligence vendor, AppDynamics, has launched a new European Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, built on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) EU (Frankfurt) Region. The new offering recognises that data sovereignty concerns put new pressure on European enterprises and may decelerate their […]

June 15, 2018

The cloud was supposed to kill open source. Instead, savvy cloud operators appear to be using open source as an on-ramp to proprietary services, giving them reason to increase investments in complementary open source projects. Google is the obvious example, […]

May 21, 2018

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced that Verizon Communications has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider. Verizon is migrating over 1,000 business-critical applications and database backend systems to AWS, several of which also include the migration of production […]

May 16, 2018

Verizon is moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred public cloud provider – migrating more than 1,000 business critical applications and backend systems in the process. The announcement, made by AWS, notes that Verizon first started working with […]

May 10, 2018

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Amazon Aurora Backtrack, a new feature that provides an “undo option” for a production database. Backtrack can be enabled by customers for newly-launched Aurora database clusters by specifying how far back in time they […]

April 18, 2018

A report by the Eclipse Foundation has revealed developers prefer using AWS to build their applications rather than Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, which were the second and third most popular platforms. The company’s third annual IoT developer survey discovered […]

April 10, 2018

You may not have heard of OpenSCG, but Amazon Web Services has. A week ago, AWS quietly acquired the PostgreSQL migration services company founded by PostgreSQL veteran Denis Lussier. While some PostgreSQL fans weren’t happy about the move, the OpenSCG […]

March 8, 2018

AWS, Google, Microsoft — these are the three giants of the cloud computing universe, and their collective efforts made 2017 a great year for cloud computing in general. It’s expected that the Big 3 will increase their combined market share […]

March 1, 2018

Cloud computing in the form we understand today started more than 10 years ago, with the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS). This was the first commercially viable option for businesses to store data in the cloud rather than on-premise, […]

February 26, 2018

In what’s become a frighteningly frequent occurrence, another unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket has jeopardized hundreds of millions of customers’ personal data. Companies share security responsibilities with their Cloud service providers. While AWS and other CSPs must provide […]

February 14, 2018

Choosing the right public cloud provider is becoming an increasingly nuanced discussion that goes well beyond scale. We all know the large cloud players–AWS, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure–but stacking them up depends on your enterprise’s needs. […]

February 2, 2018

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just secured $5 billion in quarterly revenues – but what are its most popular products? According to 2nd Watch, a managed cloud provider and AWS partner, the fastest growing AWS products used by their customers […]

November 28, 2017

VMware and Amazon Web Services are beefing up capabilities of their joint attack on the enterprise hybrid cloud market – called VMware Cloud on AWS — including a new disaster recovery-as-a-service offering for enterprises with on-premises data centers and a […]