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• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  Weather Company tackles multi-cloud management with AWS, IBM

  The Weather Company has made waves with news that it's adding IBM SoftLayer alongside AWS -- a move that's becoming more typical in cloud.

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  AWS vs. VMware in Pentagon virtualization contract

  AWS called shenanigans on the renewal of a VMware virtualization license agreement at the Pentagon, pointing to the deal's anti-compete nature.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Amazon job listings offer many AWS roadmap clues

  Amazon is hiring thousands of people, and where it’s hiring offers clues about where the AWS roadmap is headed.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  AWS S3 replication across regions means simpler, cheaper DR

  Replication across AWS cloud regions is now a checkbox item in the management console, circumventing homegrown and third-party tools.

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  AWS bill instance upgrades a slam dunk for Boston Celtics

  The Boston Celtics and its AWS partner found one surprisingly simple trick to save the team almost 50% on AWS costs.

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• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  AWS EBS volumes push the scalability envelope

  AWS EBS volumes now offer 16 TB volume sizes and support for up to 20,000 IOPS, but users wish upgrading to the new volumes was a smoother process.

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  AWS urged to follow Azure on cloud data privacy

  As AWS expands into apps such as email, experts say it should strengthen its data privacy credentials by following the controls set forth in the new ISO 27018 standard.

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  AWS analytics buy sets stage for next wave of data processing

  Processing data from sensors attached to mobile devices and other objects will become a hot commodity in the next three to five years, experts say.

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  New AWS C4 instances put to the test

  Amazon Web Services' new line of C4 instances can offer greater CPU horsepower, but is it worth the price? IT pros evaluating the instances weigh in.

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  New tool makes AWS Spot Instances reliable

  A Silicon Valley startup says it can deliver AWS Spot Instance prices with On-Demand reliability.

• March 03, 2015 03 Mar'15

  AWS security thwarts DDoS attack on Freshdesk website

  Hackers attacked a helpdesk software maker's website, putting tens of thousands of customers at risk. But a move to Amazon Web Services saved the day.

• March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15

  AWS Service Catalog to ease cloud management, tagging

  Enterprise IT shops hope the AWS Service Catalog will be a cheaper alternative to third-party tools and solve EC2 tagging issues.

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Another AWS reboot planned for March

  For AWS shops, news of another reboot in the EC2 fleet shows the cloud provider is staying on top of its security responsibilities.

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Cloud market size numbers don't add up

  Determining AWS's true value in the cloud market has been a bit of a guessing game, especially when cloud market size appears larger than it is.

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Azure Machine Learning turns heads among AWS users

  What does Microsoft have that AWS doesn't? Better-integrated machine learning resources for business intelligence apps.