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- December 29, 2017
29 Dec'17
Amazon API Gateway boosts compression, tagging
AWS customers were enticed by products and services introduced at the cloud provider’s annual customer and partner confab, re:Invent, held recently. AWS also kept up a steady pace of basic service ...
- December 22, 2017
22 Dec'17
AWS updates covered the IT gamut in 2017
The list of AWS features continued to grow in 2017, with upgrades that grab IT shops' attention: containers, databases, security, serverless and machine learning.
- December 14, 2017
14 Dec'17
AWS SSO puts Amazon at the center of IT access
AWS' Single Sign-On service intends to simplify control over employee access to AWS accounts and outside apps -- and also put AWS at the center of it all.
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- December 12, 2017
12 Dec'17
AWS security services expand, but still room for improvement
AWS security tools got a boost from GuardDuty and IoT Device Defender, but the vendor still has work to do to provide a full security portfolio to meet enterprise needs.
- December 08, 2017
08 Dec'17
Could AWS' torrid pace of innovation come back to haunt the cloud giant?
Another AWS re:Invent has come and gone, with another slew of new products to delight its fans. But in the cloud, can there be too much of a good thing? The user conference was bursting at the ...
- December 08, 2017
08 Dec'17
AWS AI services toss machine learning keys to dev teams
AWS re:Invent featured updates to database and internet of things technologies, but new cloud AI services such as SageMaker broaden the appeal of the cloud provider's AI tool set.
- December 01, 2017
01 Dec'17
AWS CEO Jassy shares thoughts on the future of AWS, cloud
It should come as no surprise, but AWS CEO Andy Jassy is awfully bullish about the company he leads. Jassy sat down for a press Q&A following his keynote speech here at re:Invent this week. ...
- December 01, 2017
01 Dec'17
AWS PrivateLink clamps down on endpoint exposure
AWS continues to push its Virtual Private Cloud as the new norm for cloud development and deployment, and further limit public internet exposure. AWS PrivateLink enables customers to privately ...
- December 01, 2017
01 Dec'17
AWS database services Aurora, DynamoDB eye distributed apps
AWS fills in more gaps in its database and storage services to give customers better reliability across global regions, automated provisioning and cheaper data retrieval.
- November 30, 2017
30 Nov'17
AWS managed services move into IoT, containers
Managed services took center stage at AWS' annual user conference, with added higher-level services for IoT, functions, containers and databases.
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- November 29, 2017
29 Nov'17
Smooth your AWS certification path with this advice
With AWS certification in heavy demand, many IT professionals are headed back to the classroom. Cloud trainer Anthony Sequeira offers some advice to help you pass the exam.
- November 21, 2017
21 Nov'17
AWS using KVM and Xen, but users may not feel any impact
AWS has added a new hypervisor behind the scenes, but customers likely won't see much of a direct impact on their cloud environment. Amazon this month began selling its C5 instance nearly a year ...
- November 21, 2017
21 Nov'17
Your guide to AWS re:Invent 2017 news and analysis
It's time again for AWS re:Invent, the cloud provider's largest global conference. Follow this guide for news from this year's event and insights from the show floor.
- November 17, 2017
17 Nov'17
Amazon Aurora expands reach, but maybe not far enough
Support for PostgreSQL in Amazon Aurora helps AWS advance in its fight with Oracle over a larger piece of the database market. But it does not offer total feature parity.
- November 10, 2017
10 Nov'17
Default AWS S3 encryption walls off vulnerable customer data
S3 encryption is now the default setting for the AWS storage service in response to a string of high-profile cases where users exposed data to the internet.