Amazon CTO Celebrates the 15 Years of AWS Success

Source:-https://cheddar.com/ As Amazon’s global imprint continues to expand, the e-commerce giant is celebrating the 15th anniversary of Simple Storage Service, Amazon S3, the first of its cloud service offerings. Launched back in March 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has since become a model for not only other e-commerce entities but a wide range of industries that incorporate cloud services. “We’ve been the pioneers in this space. The concept of cloud computing didn’t exist before this, and we got a real

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China cloud market growing, but still smaller than Microsft Azure

Source:-https://www.itproportal.com After the cloud’s big three – AWS, Azure and Google Cloud – all of the attention usually shifts to Chinese vendors. Canalys’ fresh reports are stating that cloud providers from the far East grew by 65 percent in the third quarter of the year, raking in approximately $5 billion in revenue for the period. The market analysts are saying the companies spent $750 million more, compared to the second quarter of the year, bringing the total increase in spending,

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AWS becomes preferred cloud for e-commerce giants Mercado Libre and Zalando

Source:-https://siliconangle.com Amazon Web Services Inc. today divulged that Mercado Libre Inc. and Zalando SE, two major players in the global e-commerce market with millions of users each, have selected it as their preferred cloud provider. Mercado Libre is the largest online retail and payments provider in Latin America. It’s also the region’s overall largest company by market capitalization. Germany-based Zalando is the operator of Europe’s most popular fashion and lifestyle e-commerce marketplace. Mercado Libre is building a data lake on

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Cloud Computing: Impact on the Retail Industry

Source:-https://customerthink.com Running a retail business is no mean task — one must keep the business going in the general sense and battle with a variety of challenges, including the intense competition in the market. Then there’s also the growing threat from the e-commerce industry? Retail sector has more than its fair share of challenges and successfully deals with them; it needs help — the kind that only advanced technologies can provide. And among the many such technologies with the potential

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Feature Flags: The Cure for DevOps Remote Work Stress

Source:-https://devops.com The world has drastically changed. As a result, we have had to adapt the way we shop, socialize, educate and work. Businesses have had to adapt to keep operations going, and the biggest change they’ve had to make has been the move to remote working. For most, this has meant bringing a laptop home from the office and setting up at a home desk or dining table. For teams used to collaborating in-person, it may feel like the world

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Origin’s decentralised commerce platform hits Google Cloud Marketplace

Source:-channellife.com Origin has partnered with Google Cloud to bring its decentralised commerce platform to Google Cloud’s global network of developers and customers. As part of the partnership, Origin has made its Dshop e-commerce platform available on the Google Cloud Marketplace allowing merchants to deploy and create their own decentralised e-commerce store. In addition, publicly available product data from Origin’s merchant partners will now be available in Google BigQuery. Developers, data scientists, and other interested parties will be able to quickly

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Trai suggests light touch approach to regulate cloud services

Source – telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com KOLKATA: The sector regulator has advocated a light touch approach to regulate cloud services and urged the telecom department (DoT) to lay out a broad framework for registration of an industry association of cloud service providers (CSPs). The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said, it would suggest the terms and conditions of registering the proposed CSP industry body once the government cleared its overall recommendations on cloud services issued Wednesday. Such terms and conditions, it said, would include the

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Five Ways Data Analytics Will Storm the Stage in 2017

Source:- insidebigdata.com It is becoming more and more apparent how data analysis is driving e-commerce revenues. And this growing importance has forced e-tailers and e-commerce firms to hire more data scientists in order to better understand how customer engagement impacts revenue and sales. This assessment comes from SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics, who reveals that data analytics is important in all aspects of the organization – from digital transformation to digital performance management. SOASTA predicts that these are the five

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