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• The future of AWS holds new tech, heated competition

  As the world rings in a new year, AWS moves forward in a contentious cloud market. Our experts speculate whether edge, IoT and machine learning will help AWS maintain its lead. Continue Reading

• These AWS features, partnerships dominated 2017 news

  It's difficult for AWS customers to stay informed on everything the cloud provider offers. Get up to speed with these top AWS news stories from 2017. Continue Reading

• Oracle vs. AWS battle heats up around cloud costs, databases

  After imposing a price hike for its customers that use AWS, Oracle now needs to contend with new AWS services that compete with its databases, as some users mull a migration. Continue Reading

• Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs

  Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs are virtual machines (VMs), also known as compute instances, in the Amazon Web Services public cloud with added graphics acceleration capabilities. Continue Reading

• Amazon Cloud Directory

  Amazon Cloud Directory is a service that enables an IT team to build cloud-native directories in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)
  • AWS Artifact
  • Amazon WorkMail
  • Amazon Macie

  • AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB)
  • Amazon Connect
  • AWS Cost Management
  • Amazon Echo

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• AWS ADS (AWS Application Discovery Service)

  AWS Application Discovery Service (AWS ADS) is a tool that helps an enterprise plan application migrations to the Amazon Web Services public cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS IoT Button

  The AWS IoT Button is a programmable, Wi-Fi-enabled handheld device that allows developers to push a button to execute a variety of actions in the Amazon Web Services public cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS Glue

  AWS Glue is a cloud service that prepares data for analysis through automated extract, transform and load (ETL) processes.Continue Reading

• AWS Managed Services

  AWS Managed Services is a set of services and tools that automate infrastructure management tasks for Amazon Web Services (AWS) deployments.Continue Reading

• Amazon AppStream

  Amazon AppStream is an Amazon Web Service (AWS) that enables compute-intensive applications to be streamed from the cloud to computing devices of all types.Continue Reading

• Amazon Polly

  Amazon Polly is a text-to-speech service within the Amazon Web Services cloud platform. It uses deep learning technology to allow applications to speak with a human-like voice.Continue Reading

• Amazon EC2 Container Service

  Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a cloud computing service in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that manages containers.Continue Reading

• CloudFormation StackSets drive cross-account automation

  AWS gave its automation capabilities a boost with the release of CloudFormation StackSets, a feature that lets dev teams deploy stacks across multiple accounts and regions.Continue Reading

• Enterprises maintain a wish list for hybrid cloud with AWS

  Recent partnerships show Amazon's intentions to tap into the hybrid cloud market. While there's a lot of promise, there are still many features customers want.Continue Reading

• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

  Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a scalable and fully managed message queuing service that allows users to transmit any amount of data through the web without administrative responsibility.Continue Reading