RDS SLA Now Covers MariaDB
Given the popularity and wide use of the open source MariaDB database in Amazon RDS, AWS has chosen to take things a step further. AWS has announced that it is extending the RDS SLA to cover MariaDB....
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AWS Cloud Helps Explore Higgs Boson Data
The AWS Cloud has come a long way not just in helping to expand business and medicine, but scientific research as well. The 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson, also know as the God Particle, has become...
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7 Ways to Improve Collaboration with the Cloud
Courtesy of Creative Commons. We’ve seen a remarkable rise in cloud usage over the past year. Cloud technology has grown so pervasive that those who don’t adopt it face a marked disadvantage in...
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Cloud Month in Review – April 2016
Amazon Web Services has continued to raise the bar for its services and every month there’s something new to see. Storage and DB AWS has made the most number of updates this month on its storage and...
View ArticleGE Oil & Gas Saves Millions with AWS
GE Oil & Gas is a relatively new division of General Electric that came about from several acquisitions in the 80’s. Roughly 85% of offshore oil rigs in the world use their drilling systems. Given...
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Cloud Month in Review – May 2016
This May we’ve seen a ton of action with AWS software updates and we’re eager to see how this impacts users. Updates to IAAS AWS is proud to announce that its fully-managed data warehouse service,...
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7 Things You Need to Know Before Migrating to the Cloud
So you are thinking of moving to the cloud—great idea. You will be taking on the same advantages that a majority of companies worldwide are currently enjoying:scalability, efficiency, cost-savings,...
View ArticleCloud Month In Review — June 2016
This June we see Amazon providing even more improvements, this time with existing database technology: First off, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce 4.7.0 now includes support for Apache Tez and Phoenix. Faster...
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5 Things to Watch Out for in your Cloud SLA
Service Level Agreements (SLA) can be a pain to read, what with the legalese and jargon involved. However, when things don’t go as expected in your cloud environment, the SLA is the main document you...
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Five Steps for a Painless Cloud Migration
Migrating to the cloud can benefit a business enormously. Migration has provided cost-savings, greater efficiency, greater collaboration, and quicker disaster recovery for hundreds of thousands of...
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Four Ways to Stop Ransomware
While AWS has the highest security and protection levels possible their shared responsibility model means that you still need to protect whatever you put into the cloud. Malware just keeps getting...
View Article2016 Future Of Cloud Computing Survey Results
North Bridge and Wikibon, announced the results of its sixth annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey, which analyzes trends in cloud computing, adoption, use and challenges on a yearly basis. With 53...
View ArticleCloud Month In Review – July 2016
This July, AWS shares some of its best updates this month in terms of infrastructure, software, and database improvements. IaaS To Improve AWS EC2 networking performance, AWS has launched the Elastic...
View ArticleRunning Kubernetes on AWS
As a container orchestration system, Kubernetes can be used to deploy multiple containers applications across multiple hosts while providing several benefits, enabling cluster management, auto-scaling,...
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Introduction to Kubernetes
An open-sourced container system, Kubernetes provides a robust, easy-to-use platform for running a large number of containers in a production environment. Kubernetes got its start from an idea by...
View Article7 Reasons to Use Kubernetes to Dockerize Your Applications
With Kubernetes becoming more popular it’s time to find out why you should use it with Docker to manage your application development. On one hand, Docker is a container service, a means to deploy a...
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Clash of Clouds: AWS vs. Microsoft Azure
If you were asked to choose the best cloud service provider for your company, which would you pick? You’re not alone in asking this question. Anyone who has any interest in the cloud would like to...
View ArticleAmazon Gamelift Launches FleetIQ and Spot Instances
AWS previously launched Amazon GameLift, a scalable runtime environment where you can run multiplayer games on the cloud. You may upload a game to this environment and set the type of EC2 instance you...
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AWS Contingencies for Disasters
In the face of more powerful typhoons and other natural disasters, it’s good to remember that AWS has installed various contingencies to ensure that their services will continue to operate during the...
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