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Cloudyn points out AWS billing surprise

Posted January 22, 2013 - 8:23 pm

AWS bills for a certain type of reserved instance in advance, which can make it challenging for customers to track spending spikes
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AWS East might get more reliable, if reports of new data center pan out

Posted January 15, 2013 - 8:22 pm

Reports say that Amazon is working on new data centers in Virginia to shore up its outage-prone East region
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Gartner cloud computing Magic Quadrant pits AWS against the world

Posted January 14, 2013 - 1:11 pm

Say what you will about Gartner Magic Quadrants, but there's little doubt that IT organizations use them to evaluate technology. The firm's last two analyses of the cloud service provider place Amazon Web Services head and shoulders about the rest. Will other CSPs adapt--or die?
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Amazon's cloud hiccups, again

Posted January 9, 2013 - 9:31 pm

Less than a month after a 12-hour-plus outage on Christmas Eve, Amazon Web Service's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service in its US-East availability zone experienced elevated error rates for about 45 minutes today.
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Netflix open sources Janitor Monkey to help tidy up unused Amazon cloud resources

Posted January 7, 2013 - 9:03 am

Online video streaming company -- and heavy Amazon cloud user -- Netflix has open sourced Janitor Monkey, a tool that finds unused cloud resources and deletes them, leading to potentially valuable cost savings for customers.
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How long will big-name customers like Netflix put up with Amazon cloud outages?

Posted January 3, 2013 - 9:13 pm

On Christmas Eve as Netflix customers cuddled up to watch their favorite holiday movies and TV shows with friends and family, many experienced a problem. Netflix was down.
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10 of the most useful cloud databases

Posted December 19, 2012 - 2:19 pm

Big data is becoming a big deal and cloud providers want to be the place where enterprises databases live.
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Amazon allows users to spread workloads more broadly now

Posted December 18, 2012 - 4:16 pm

Amazon Web Services today announced a new feature that allows users to replicate block storage volumes across regions of the world, which will make it easier for systems to stay up in case of a cloud outage.
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Amazon makes it easier to track costs, usage in its cloud

Posted December 14, 2012 - 1:20 pm

Somewhat undercutting a budding ecosystem of vendors that provide similar services, Amazon Web Services today announced increased features for customers to track their usage of AWS public cloud resources.
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Rackspace follows Amazon in beefing up its database tools

Posted December 13, 2012 - 3:57 pm

Following major announcements from Amazon Web Services in recent weeks around data warehousing and management, Rackspace today announced new capabilities for database hosting and management.
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Weather Channel forecasts heavier reliance on cloud computing

Posted December 11, 2012 - 3:04 pm

During Hurricane Sandy this fall, The Weather Channel experienced its highest traffic ever. Normally the media company -- which spans television, desktop and mobile platforms -- supports about 90 million Web and mobile users a month. During Sandy, that jumped to 450 million -- nearly double the company's previous high for Web traffic.
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Is the cloud the right place for your data warehouse?

Posted December 10, 2012 - 4:14 pm

The single biggest news coming from Amazon Web Service's first user conference recently was the launch of the company's newest service, Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse tool. And it prompts the question: Is the cloud the right place for data warehousing?
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Gartner: Amazon, HP cloud SLAs are "practically useless"

Posted December 6, 2012 - 10:10 am

Amazon Web Services, which Gartner recently named a market-leader in infrastructure as a service cloud computing, has the "dubious status of 'worst SLA (service level agreement) of any major cloud provider'" analyst Lydia Leong blogged today, but HP's newly available public cloud service could be even worse..
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Windows shops now more welcome in Amazon cloud

Posted December 4, 2012 - 10:03 pm

Amazon Web Services has announced support for a handful of Windows Server applications in its public cloud, the company's latest move to attract enterprise IT shops.
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What's Amazon's enterprise strategy for the cloud?

Posted December 4, 2012 - 3:45 pm

Roaming the floor of Amazon Web Services' first user conference last week, it didn't look like a traditional tech show. Many of the 6,000 attendees were with startups or midsize businesses looking to learn more about AWS services or the public cloud.
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Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google

Posted December 3, 2012 - 2:28 pm

It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west.
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Code as a cultural artifact

Posted December 3, 2012 - 12:02 pm

A new book argues that a computer program is more than a collection of machine commands and has important stories to tell
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Amazon Data Pipeline promises to ease management of data stored in multiple locations

Posted November 29, 2012 - 8:13 pm

Amazon Web Services today launched Data Pipeline, a new tool designed to make it easier for users to integrate data stored in multiple disparate spots to manage and analyze it.
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Amazon goes all in with data warehousing at AWS conference

Posted November 29, 2012 - 5:44 pm

The first day of the first Amazon Web Services user conference, known as re: Invent, focused on the way customers are using services such as S3 and CloudFront. Meanwhile, the company unveiled RedShift, which CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden thinks will disrupt the data warehousing market and challenge IBM, Oracle and Teradata.
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NetApp storage array now spans into Amazon's cloud

Posted November 29, 2012 - 11:36 am

Signaling a continued effort by Amazon Web Services to make its cloud more appealing to enterprise users, the company has announced a partnership with storage provider NetApp that will allow customers to have a consistent storage array powered by NetApp on both their own premises and in Amazon's cloud.
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Sure, Amazon should be worried about private clouds, but it can't continue to ignore IaaS competitors

Posted November 28, 2012 - 5:38 pm

AWS spent plenty of time trash talking private cloud vendors but it seems to have forgotten about the impending direct competition from up-and-coming IaaS vendors.
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5 things to watch for at Amazon cloud conference

Posted November 28, 2012 - 11:19 am

Pretty much anyone watching the cloud computing market will tell you that Amazon Web Services is its 800-pound gorilla. Which means that this is a big week for the company: On Wednesday in Las Vegas, Amazon kicks off its first user conference, called AWS re: Invent.
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See how well cloud apps are working for your peers

Posted November 26, 2012 - 7:19 pm

A new feature from Boundary is designed to give you insight into the app performance that your peers are getting on the same -- and different -- cloud service you use.
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Windows Server 2012 now runs in Amazon's cloud

Posted November 20, 2012 - 9:28 am

Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud, and take advantage of improved management features and new versions of IIS and the .Net framework.
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F5 to launch AWS editions of BIG-IP products

Posted November 16, 2012 - 4:15 pm

Network appliance maker F5 will officially announce a new virtual edition of its flagship BIG-IP technology specifically designed for use with Amazon Web Services cloud instances at the AWS re: Invent conference in Las Vegas at the end of the month.
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