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• April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16

  AWS, partners' balancing act weighs on users, too

  AWS partners are a critical part of the growing ecosystem, but the choice between third-party services and the waiting game for native tooling can create problems for users.

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  New AWS migration tools target big data behind a firewall

  Expanded AWS migration tools and proactive security measures are the focus of a string of new products from Amazon aimed at luring in more enterprise workloads.

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  AWS customer tweets convey mixed reactions

  The AWS cloud has been in operation for 10 years, and its early arrival on the scene resulted in a glut of loyal customers. But those customers have mixed reactions to new AWS features.

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  AWS mobile portfolio approaches critical mass

  Amazon Web Services has slowly built a compelling portfolio of mobile app dev and management tools, and now the company is poised to shake up the market.

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  Amazon's cloud faces new challenges in second decade

  AWS turned 10 this month, and for the first time it faces the potential of real competition in a market that promises to be different in its second decade.

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  AWS Snowball slings hunks of data back to your data center

  AWS Snowball is now a two-way street, as customers can move large data sets in and out of the cloud with the plug-in appliance.

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  AWS careers benefit from skills, not certifications

  Cloud computing positions increasingly demand AWS expertise. While the particulars may vary, job seekers need to get their hands dirty in the field to land their desired position.

• February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16

  AWS Management Console makeover coming to a browser near you

  User interface beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but AWS shops feel good about the newly redesigned AWS Management Console so far.

• February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16

  Veteran IT pros offer tips on resolving AWS security concerns

  AWS security concerns primarily have to do with locking down APIs, according to veteran IT pros, who also see tools such as Lambda on the cusp of changing the cloud security game.

• February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16

  Securing AWS means avoiding common mistakes

  Securing AWS starts with knowing what mistakes to avoid. So, to get off on the right foot, learn from these cautionary tales of common AWS security blunders.

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  AWS security buffed up with new Lambda, RDS features

  A series of AWS improvements that mostly flew under the radar will enhance users' ability to secure AWS and build serverless applications.

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  Amazon Lumberyard may hold Easter egg for enterprise developers

  What does a new 3D game engine have to do with enterprise application development? Users say they could be more closely related than first meets the eye.

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  AWS Mobile Hub curates a collection of services for developers

  The general availability of Amazon's mobile backend as a service this week comes at an opportune time in the mobile app dev market, as orphaned Parse users seek a viable alternative.

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Amazon EFS stuck in beta, lacks native Windows support

  Amazon's long-awaited Elastic File System is expected to hit the market soon, but it won't natively support Windows or high-performance workloads.

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Free Amazon SSL certificates' value is a matter of trust

  Whether the new AWS Certificate Manager service will work for you depends on how much you trust Amazon in general, experts say.

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  AWS Lambda leads charge in event-driven computing

  Event-driven automation, such as AWS Lambda, allows developers to run code without provisioning servers and could form a crucial missing piece of the DevOps equation.

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  AWS Reserved Instances discounted, but overhead remains

  Amazon rolls out a new Scheduled Reserved Instances pricing discount, but IT pros aren't sure it is worth the management hassle.

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  AWS data center locations spring up in anticipation of new regulations

  AWS is rapidly expanding into new geographies, such as Canada and South Korea, as new regulatory requirements loom.

• January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16

  AWS price-cut patterns reflect cloud growth, maturation

  AWS dropped prices for the 51st time in its history, but the bloodiest days of the cloud pricing wars may be in the rear view mirror.

• December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15

  New services, cloud disruption top AWS news in 2015

  Cloud customers keep their ears to the ground to keep up with new AWS information, particularly when it comes to service issues. These five news stories were most popular on SearchAWS in 2015.

• December 22, 2015 22 Dec'15

  AWS cloud cost management in the spotlight for 2016

  AWS users want more built-in cloud security and control tools in 2016, and vow to improve cloud cost management -- something Amazon will help with through a new free tool.

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  Amazon Aurora could build a 'Safe Harbor' for data

  Amazon's Aurora database now offers encryption at rest, which could help with international data security concerns as European law is clarified.

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  AWS t2.nano instances offer dirt-cheap home for microservices

  The AWS t2.nano could undercut all competitors on price with a three-year Reserved Instance contract, depending on storage requirements.

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  Amazon Route 53 adds Traffic Flow, beats most prices

  AWS shops are excited to see Amazon Route 53 add Traffic Flow, though there are also third-party products on the market that offer similar features.

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  AWS Active Directory service looks to pilfer apps from Azure

  Amazon continues its competitive push against Microsoft with a new way of deploying Active Directory in its cloud.

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  NGINX serves up alternative to AWS Elastic Load Balancing

  AWS customers are working around the limitations of AWS Elastic Load Balancing using an open source product.

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Amazon dedicated server move aligns with Microsoft licensing

  While technically comparable to bare metal cloud offerings from IBM and Rackspace, AWS has a different motivation for offering dedicated hardware.

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Free AWS Cost Explorer poised to close gap with paid tools

  Amazon quietly made an update to its free AWS cost analysis tool that may be significant enough to give cloud users reason to ditch third-party tools that can cost thousands of dollars.

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  AWS Device Farm broadens appeal with Web app support

  AWS users who didn't have an interest in the AWS Device Farm before are intrigued by an important new feature.

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  AWS Lambda service tops gratitude list this Thanksgiving

  Amazon Web Services made hundreds of product and feature updates in 2015, but there are a few that IT pros are most grateful for, as the end of the year approaches.

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Cloud expert, author shares pointers on getting started with AWS

  In this Q&A, Andreas Wittig, co-author of the book 'Amazon Web Services in Action,' highlights the biggest rookie mistakes enterprises struggle with and pitfalls to avoid.

• November 13, 2015 13 Nov'15

  New RDS snapshot sharing raises cloud security concerns

  AWS added features such as an EC2 Run Command and the ability to share RDS snapshot data between accounts -- giving some users reason for concern about security.

• November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15

  AWS plays host to Amazon SES alternatives

  A company whose products share a market with Amazon SES talks about what it's like to base its operations on AWS, and shares what items are on its wish list, such as EC2 IPv6 support.

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Amazon Elasticsearch Service still sanding down rough edges

  Amazon's Elasticsearch Service shows promise for users who have long loathed the process of setting up Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana  clusters in the cloud, but there's a security snag for ...

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  Key geographies still missing in AWS data center locations

  AWS data center locations are growing in number and Amazon cloud users have ideas about where the company should expand next in its quest for world domination.

• November 03, 2015 03 Nov'15

  Hybrid cloud challenges abound for AWS, VMware shops

  The first hurdle of hybrid cloud migration is tricky enough -- then the rest of the hybrid cloud picture comes into focus.

• November 03, 2015 03 Nov'15

  Technologies on horizon brighten AWS hybrid cloud future

  The challenges of managing hybrid clouds could be mitigated significantly by technical advances that look to take over the data center in the next few years.

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  AWS, VMware shops clear hybrid cloud migration hurdles

  Cloud migration is step one in setting up a hybrid cloud infrastructure -- but it can often be a sticky wicket.

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  AWS hybrid cloud management takes expertise and elbow grease

  Hybrid cloud challenges can be formidable, but some organizations have tackled them with demonstrable success in AWS and VMware clouds.

• October 30, 2015 30 Oct'15

  AWS hybrid cloud makes dollars and sense to users

  Even as some organizations go 'all in' with AWS public cloud, some enterprises find the costs of porting apps to public cloud just don't add up.

• 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.

• 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.

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  AWS takes on Google Kubernetes with Docker Trusted Registry

  Amazon Web Services continues its race with Google Cloud Platform in support for Docker containers with the Docker Trusted Registry.

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  AWS S3 pricing downshifts with new Infrequent Access tier

  Amazon Web Services added a new data storage option to its cloud this week. Will it catch on?

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  AWS mobile development blows up with acquisition

  Amazon bought Elemental Technologies in one of the biggest bets in the company's history to boost its platform for mobile app development.

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Cloud data analytics rise into the stratosphere

  Several surveys point to big data analytics as an object of fascination to enterprises in the cloud. With several tools to process data, AWS intends to meet that need.

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  New tool uses S3 to reap AWS cost savings

  A new company has emerged from stealth with an alternative to AWS Auto Scaling Groups for SMBs in search of EC2 cost saving tricks.

• August 31, 2015 31 Aug'15

  Storage service provider makes use of Amazon S3 features

  ClearSky Data takes advantage of the scalability, redundancy and price of Simple Storage Service with its newly launched storage as a service platform.

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Amazon API Gateway emerges against heavy competition

  Microsoft and a host of startups offered API gateways years before Amazon jumped into the fray, but the company's API Gateway is still turning heads among AWS users.

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  Amazon S3 issues at the center of Monday morning snafu

  AWS customers' ability to launch new instances in the US-East region was affected by an uptick in error rates on the Simple Storage Service, according to Amazon's status page.

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  AWS products in need of UI facelift

  AWS shops want more finesse in AWS products' user interfaces, among other desired features in the near future.

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  AWS roadmap should point the way 'up the stack'

  AWS is a dominant force in infrastructure as a service, but a new day is coming in cloud computing, IT pros say, and AWS will have to adjust.

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  Amazon ECS stands to iron out some kinks

  Monitoring and deep diagnostics on a per-container basis are two areas Amazon ECS can improve on in the early days of the container wars.

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  AWS and Google Docker cloud services face off

  Docker is the hottest thing in town and Amazon, Google and other major cloud providers all want enterprises to use the container service through them.

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  Amazon Aurora finally arrives -- and without keys

  Amazon Aurora is now available, but its features don't match that of the rest of Relational Database Service.

• 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.

• 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.

• June 15, 2015 15 Jun'15

  Amazon transparency report fails to quell AWS concerns

  Amazon has issued a transparency report about legal requests it has received, but the report raises more questions than it answers for AWS shops.

• June 12, 2015 12 Jun'15

  New AWS instances drive down previous-generation prices

  New AWS instances will mean cost savings for IT pros, even if they don't purchase instances from the new M4 line.

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Amazon Elastic File System roadmap details revealed

  AWS officials discussed the features customers can expect at the launch of AWS EFS, as well as what's still on the roadmap.

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  AWS renewable energy flap gains momentum

  A second environmental group mounts a campaign and shareholders ask for more facts as AWS trades public criticisms with Greenpeace.

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  Amazon renewable energy sources questioned

  Amazon says 40% of the power used by its global infrastructure will come from renewable energy sources by the end of 2016, but customers want details.

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Rackspace's shift drives IT shop into Amazon RDS' arms

  Amazon's database as a service convinced a large Rackspace customer to move all its servers to EC2.

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Ooyala achieves multi-cloud management with DIY elbow grease

  An AWS early adopter branched out into Azure and OpenStack while avoiding "sticky" shared services and incorporating open source automation tools.

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  AWS cloud management smoothed by third-party tool

  An AWS shop turned to a product from an AWS premier partner to collect, correlate and manage the data produced by native Amazon tools.

• April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15

  Amazon ClusterK buy could boost AWS Spot Instances

  Amazon acquired ClusterK, a startup that claims to have built a better mousetrap for orchestrating AWS Spot Instances and making them more reliable.

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  TIBCO, AWS in cloud analytics cahoots

  TIBCO will standardize its cloud analytics products on AWS and hopes to integrate R language components with Redshift.

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  Amazon earnings reveal AWS' profitability

  Amazon broke out AWS financial numbers for the first time this week, putting it squarely in the category of major enterprise IT vendors.

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  AWS EC2 Container Service eases Docker deployment

  AWS' EC2 Container Service tackles some network and security issues for Docker containers, though there's still room for scheduling improvements.

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  AWS Machine Learning service makes its debut

  Two months after arch-rival Microsoft Azure rolled out machine learning services, AWS has answered. Amazon also delivered a raft of other much awaited cloud services.

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  AWS confusion spurs interest in managed cloud services

  Companies interested in AWS often need help selecting and deploying the right mix of cloud services. Many are turning to managed cloud services.

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  AWS CodeDeploy reaches into the data center

  AWS bolstered CodeDeploy with support for on-premises instances -- a move that follows other recent updates to support hybrid clouds.

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  AWS WordPress deployment cuts costs, improves reliability

  An entrepreneurial organization found deploying WordPress on AWS saved money and increased reliability after some false starts with a hosting provider.

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  New AWS instances increase EC2 storage, performance

  New AWS D2 instances pack in disk drives, memory and faster processors, intriguing users with heavy data-processing applications.