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• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  Lack of price cuts fueled AWS growth in Amazon earnings

  Amazon earnings show a dominant position for AWS, partly because price cuts have slowed in the last year.

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Amazon DynamoDB Streams and AWS Lambda -- better together

  New possibilities have opened up for cloud users now that the Amazon DynamoDB NoSQL database and AWS Lambda can be used together.

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  AWS RDS now HIPAA-eligible, but that's only half the battle

  AWS RDS, DynamoDB and EMR have been declared HIPAA-eligible, but healthcare organizations must do more to ensure HIPAA compliance.

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  AWS cloud cost management: The buck stops with you

  Getting stakeholders to help manage AWS costs shouldn't be like herding cats. Create a cost-conscious culture and follow these steps to control cloud costs.

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  New Amazon app development tools sweeten the pot

  Amazon launched a number of services that make it easier to develop cloud apps in AWS, including Amazon API Gateway, but some warn not to get in too deep.

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• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  AWS outage worries enterprise customers

  AWS outages are fewer and less frequent, but the cause of an outage this week has IT pros feeling apprehensive.

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  AWS buffs up cost management tools, has more up its sleeve

  AWS rolled out the cost management tools hinted at several months ago in its job listings, with support for budgeting and forecasts up to three months out, according to an Amazon blog post. The new ...

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  AWS security looks to avoid cloud reboots with s2n

  A slimmed-down, Amazon-created version of the Transport Layer Security standard has been open sourced. Will it head off future cloud reboots?

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  NSA to crunch big data in AWS C2S

  The NSA is about to move some of its IT infrastructure to AWS as it seeks ways to increase efficiency and security and to analyze vast amounts of data.

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Could container cloud action catch Amazon's attention?

  Docker and other container options are gaining popularity. And AWS is diving into the technology, possibly with an eye on native containerization.

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Healthcare.gov's success on AWS inspires federal cloud use

  Healthcare.gov's move to AWS made a world of difference, and now other federal agencies hope to ditch antiquated IT systems for cloud services.

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  AWS log management tools make sense of gobs of data

  Amazon services produce an avalanche of log data. How can IT pros sort that data into actionable information?

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  AWS T2 line adds big brother

  A new AWS T2.large instance boosts support for testing apps that need more performance, but IT pros cite several reasons the T2.large isn't for use in production.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Amazon Elastic MapReduce moves forward with Apache Spark

  Amazon Elastic MapReduce has embraced Apache Spark, reflecting an industry shift around big data analytics.

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  AWS Lambda has IT pros seeing dollar signs

  Will Lambda change the face of cloud computing as we know it? Some IT pros think so as they weigh its uses and how it compares to containers.