Cloudifying my app: Eureka! I’ve created my first API
I have a confession to make. I’m a product manager, not a software developer, but when I first decided to migrate my Windows eBook app to the cloud, I thought it would be easy to migrate all my source...
View ArticleAWS security tips: How to lock down and protect your data
In June 2017, news about a massive data leak of close to 200 million American voters, exposing details such as their names, phone numbers, birthdates, phone numbers, and political opinions broke out on...
View ArticleAmazon-Whole Foods deal: Setting the table for grocery shopping’s digital...
From online book store to e-commerce giant to cloud giant, there really doesn’t seem to be anything that Amazon doesn’t do well. With complete dominance over the cloud sector, a lot of people might be...
View ArticleAnother AWS configuration error exposes Dow Jones customer data
At least 2.2 million Dow Jones & Co. clients had their information exposed because an AWS configuration error on their cloud-based file repository with Amazon Web Services. The big-name financial...
View ArticleAWS cost optimization guide: Don’t pay too much
Amazon Web Services provides a number of pricing models based on the needs of various types of IT needs. AWS offers a pricing model that operates on-demand and issues charges based on actual...
View ArticleAWS alternatives to consider: Yes, the cloud king has worthy competitors
Amazon Web Services is almost synonymous with “cloud computing” for thousands of enterprises and SMBs. We won’t even attempt to explain why. Just take a look at the service catalog of AWS, and you’d...
View ArticleWhy AWS keeps growing despite its high complexity and higher costs
Amazon Web Services, better known simply as AWS, refers to the cloud-hosting division of Amazon that has several million customers and a revenue run rate of $13 billion for the year 2017. AWS’s...
View ArticleAWS joins CNCF to bring deeper support for Kubernetes
For the longest time, if you’d look at the list of members on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it sort of screamed “everyone but AWS”! That’s because the CNCF is built around Kubernetes,...
View ArticleAWS vs. Alibaba — Round 1: Southeast Asia
AWS seems to be choosing its battles wisely, and while facing Alibaba in China comes with a number of disadvantages, Singapore is a different story altogether. Apart from being named the world’s most...
View ArticleBecome a DynamoDB dynamo with these tips
Amazon’s fully managed NoSQL database called DynamoDB is a marvelous piece of modern technology. With the potential to serve millions of issues in a second, and do it with low latency, this database...
View ArticleManaging AWS EC2 instances: A guide for Azure administrators
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are the leaders on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), and in this article, we will go over the creation of a new instance on the...
View ArticleStep-by-step guide: Building your Active Directory infrastructure in AWS EC2
In this article, we will create the basic infrastructure on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) to support a new domain controller and member servers joining that new infrastructure. We will be starting...
View ArticleRetail retaliation: How Amazon’s success hurts AWS cloud
Amazon Web Services might finally lose its edge at the head of the cloud computing wars. Target, Walmart, and other brick-and-mortar retailers and supermarkets are pulling their business from AWS as...
View ArticleUsing AWS Directory Service: A step-by-step guide
AWS customers can use AWS Directory Service, which is our well-known Active Directory running on Windows Server 2012 R2, as a managed service by AWS. Being a managed service comes with a twist, though:...
View ArticleBare Metal Instances for AWS cloud available in preview
AWS just announced the launch of a new series of Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances in public preview. These instances allow users to deploy applications that use physical bare metal hardware resources...
View ArticleBeat the traffic: Managing DNS using AWS Route 53 service
Amazon Web Services has a cloud service called AWS Route 53 that starts as a DNS service but offers way more than just DNS. It has features such as routing policy, traffic management, monitoring, and...
View ArticleAT&T-AWS partnership expanded for the cloud
The cloud is perhaps the most important aspect of current and future technology, and AT&T is providing more tools to try and help its customers take advantage of their “journey to the cloud.” To do...
View ArticleNew AWS Fargate lets you more easily manage containers
AWS Fargate, a new product that lets you use containers as a fundamental compute primitive without having to manage the underlying instances, is now available for use with Amazon ECS, according to an...
View ArticleAWS Cloud9 offers cloud-based code-editing tool
Amazon just launched a new tool aimed at making it easier for programmers to edit, run, and debug their code. AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that works right...
View ArticleAmazon Neptune graph database service launched in preview
Amazon just launched a limited preview of Amazon Neptune, a new graph database service aimed at helping users gain helpful insights about their data by analyzing the relationships between different...
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