Is Amazon’s cloud service too big to fail?

Source – fnlondon.com Gavin Jackson, head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Amazon Web Services, loves to talk about snowballs. Not the lumps of mush and ice that children chuck at each other, but Amazon’s portable information storage devices, big grey suitcases that hold huge amounts of data. When clients such as banks sign on with Amazon Web Services, the ecommerce juggernaut’s cloud-computing service, they upload encrypted data from their old legacy IT systems into the snowball, or the larger-capacity

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Amazon Miss Sparks Debate: Will Video Pay Off Like Cloud Computing?

Source – investors.com Amazon.com‘s (AMZN) surprise second-quarter earnings miss has analysts debating the margin impact of its far-flung investments, and while cloud computing seems a good bet to pay off, internet video may be raising some eyebrows.  Autoplay: On | OffThe difference: Amazon Web Services is by far the biggest provider of cloud computing services, leading Microsoft (MSFT), Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL) and others. In web video, Amazon aims to catch up with Netflix (NFLX), Google’s YouTube, Time Warner‘s (TWX) HBO and others. Amazon has stepped up investments in original content and has

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Robin Systems Releases Made-for-DevOps Dev Platform for AWS

Source – eweek.com If you’re looking for hot trends in the IT sector, three immediately come to mind: Any type of software that handles the “CX” or “UX” (consumer or user experence); anything on the backend using containers and microservices; and workloads that run in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Robin Systems, which makes cloud infrastructure software based on an open source foundation, checks the boxes for the second and third items listed. The San Jose, Calif.-based company on July 13

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Microsoft Reveals Azure Stack to Compete with Amazon Web Services

Source – leicesterpost.com The announcement, made at Microsoft Inspire 2017, also revealed several companies which are now working on getting their applications ready for Azure Stack, including Docker, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux. Go to market support is provided at all tiers. Microsoft 365 Business, available in public preview starting August 2, is created to give small-to-medium sized businesses a complete productivity and security solution, while streamlining IT management. Customers are required to purchase Azure Stack as part of a certified integrated system from partners, which

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10 ways to protect your data on the AWS platform

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net One of the worst data breaches in US history recently made the headlines, and it’s a powerful reminder of the importance of protecting data on platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). The personal details of nearly four out of every five adult Americans, including virtually every registered voter, were recently exposed online thanks to sloppy security practices. The data not only included contact details and birth dates, but also information on the perceived political views of individuals. Media analytics

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Top 10 Performance Tuning Tips for AWS EC2

Source – trainingzone.co.uk Amazon Web services, popularly abbreviated as AWS, are recognised as the leading provider of cloud based computing services. It is a great platform for web application development. AWS is used for mixed deployments and prototyping along with a number of optimizations. AWS solution architect is basically concerned to design cost-efficient, highly available, fault tolerant scalable systems. They also hold a good knowledge in deployment, data security, trouble shooting and managing effective designs and application infrastructure. You can choose

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7 Machine Learning Tools for IIoT

Source – edgylabs.com Companies at the forefront of the machine learning field offer open source libraries of solutions for companies and the average person. Below is a list of seven open-source platforms that help businesses integrate machine learning into their production process. With these toolkits, businesses, regardless of their size, can get access to the same ML resources developed and used by prestigious companies. The 7 Machine Learning Tools for IIoT: 1. Amazon Machine Learning: In 2015, Amazon’s subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web

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Why You Should Care about the Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Source:- cloudreach.com ‘The cloud is the future’. ‘The cloud is revolutionary’. ‘The cloud will transform how you do business’. There’s almost no way you’ve escaped hearing at least one of these sentiments, or something like them, over the past few years, and with good reason. The cloud is perhaps the biggest shift the IT industry has experienced since the widespread adoption of personal internet connections, and will come to define the sector for the foreseeable future. Fantastic, right? Certainly, but

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Amazon Web Services Introduces Amazon Chime

Source:- ucstrategies.com Amazon Web Services, Inc. is making its move on the Unified Communications (UC) market, with Amazon Chime. This new UC service provides video and audio meetings, chat, and sharing on desktops, iOS, and Android devices, in an attempt to compete with services like Skype for Business, GoToMeeting, and WebEx. Amazon Chime boasts high quality video, voice, chat, and screen sharing that can be launched with one click. Customers can host and join meetings, and receive calls when the

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Extending AWS CodeBuild with Custom Build Environments

Source:- amazon.com AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. CodeBuild provides curated build environments for programming languages and runtimes such as Java, Ruby, Python, Go, Node.js, Android, and Docker. It can be extended through the use of custom build environments to support many more.Build environments are Docker images that include a complete file system with everything required to build and test your project. To

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Serverless Computing: AWS vs. Azure

Source:- datamation.com Recently, a new kind of cloud computing has been getting more attention from the media and enterprise customers. Serverless computing, also known as function as a service (FaaS), allows developers to run code in the cloud without worrying about infrastructure. They simply upload their code, and the service bills them for the computing resources used to execute their code. Some analysts believe that serverless could be a big trend in 2017 and beyond. As enterprises embrace DevOps philosophies,

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