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• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  AWS earnings augur rising public cloud tide -- for some

  AWS surpassed $2 billion in revenue last quarter -- and industry watchers say it's still early in the maturation of the public cloud market.

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  Cloud security tools thwart attacks on AWS infrastructure

  Before Amazon Inspector, AWS Config Rules and even VPC, third-party cloud security tools stood guard over AWS -- and for a number of reasons, IT pros will continue to rely on them.

• October 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  Cloud users crave faster AWS cloud storage, ELB upgrades

  IT pros at last week's Amazon user conference welcomed a raft of new cloud services, but were left wanting more. Here's what AWS customers hope to see next.

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Some AWS 'Simple' cloud services harder than you think

  Ease of use and speed are hailed as two advantages of AWS, factors that were further stressed at re:Invent 2015 in products and tools to help simplify cloud development and management.

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Re:Invent keynote speeches unlock big Twitter reaction

  At AWS re:Invent this year, announcements included new capabilities for existing products, as well as management tools and a new storage appliance -- setting social media abuzz.

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• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  AWS Lambda wave of the future drowns microservices hype

  Amazon's cloud now offers more container services to meet demands of the Docker craze, but the cloud giant pins the future on Lambda, to take servers out of the application equation.

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Re:Invent 2015 through the eyes of AWS customers

  This year's re:Invent conference was Amazon Web Services' most popular, which led to some conference congestion. AWS users took to Twitter to share sights and thoughts from Las Vegas.

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  New AWS cloud migration tools stoke lock-in concerns

  Amazon launched a host of cloud migration tools to make it as easy as possible to move data into its cloud, but IT shops want a simple cloud exit plan as well.

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  New Amazon Elasticsearch service eases setup, with exceptions

  AWS shops are eager for relief setting up Elasticsearch clusters, even if integration with one important tool still requires some manual intervention.

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Amazon SES 'bulks up' incoming email support

  Companies that send and receive bulk email look forward to taking advantage of a major new Amazon SES capability.

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  AWS US-East-1 region scrutinized following service incidents

  AWS US-East-1 makes headlines when there are outages and elevated error rates. But is it really Amazon's least reliable cloud region?

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Re:Thinking the AWS enterprise push on the eve of re:Invent

  Businesses are diving head-first into the deep end with AWS. But, as re:Invent 2015 approaches, lack of cloud control still concerns some.

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  Amazon Redshift data warehouse gets long-awaited functions

  The Amazon Redshift data warehouse can now perform functions that users have clamored for since 2013.

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  Enterprises want answers after another AWS issue

  Enterprises took an earlier AWS outage this week in stride, but a second glitch in four days has cloud users concerned.

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Cascading AWS outage stokes cloud fears

  This weekend's AWS outage started with one service and snowballed from there, disrupting a number of cloud services.