Tag: AWS

March 28, 2023

Mazes are a challenge – at least without a bird’s eye view. Authentication for technical accounts presents a similar challenge for cloud engineers. Technical accounts are the backbone of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and any form of process automation for IT […]

March 27, 2023

It’s no surprise that organizations are increasingly using cloud-native services, including for data storage. Cloud storage offers tremendous benefits such as replication, geographic resiliency, and the potential for cost-reduction and improved efficiency. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Relational Database Service […]

March 22, 2023

Cloud business practices are on the radar of federal authorities, fueled by market consolidation among the three largest public cloud infrastructure providers, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The three biggest providers, or hyperscalers, own two-thirds of the global cloud […]

March 20, 2023

Amazon will fire about 9,000 more workers from several business units, including AWS, in the coming weeks, according to a statement released today by company CEO Andy Jassy. The announcement comes two months after Amazon unveiled plans to lay off […]

March 8, 2023

Data and information are the new oil; who hasn’t heard this metaphor? Thus, protecting company data is – obviously – a management priority. The main challenge for CIOs, CISOs, data protection officers, and their security architects is to select and […]

March 6, 2023

An organization takes a multicloud approach when it uses cloud services from more than one provider. That might seem obvious from the name—it’s multiple clouds, after all—but the reasons for choosing a multicloud approach can be as varied as the […]

February 22, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced availability of its new Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances, the latest generation of instances for memory-intensive applications and running Amazons custom Arm processor, known as Graviton3. This is the second offering of Graviton3-based […]

February 17, 2023

As macroeconomic uncertainty continues to slow enterprise spending on public cloud services, Google Cloud is offering a new type of contract, dubbed Flex Agreements, to incentivize enterprises to move workloads to its data centers. As the name suggests, Flex Agreements […]

February 10, 2023

The CIO of a regulatory agency that reports to the US Securities and Exchange Commission — one of the biggest cloud consumers in the world — has made it his mission to help other CIOs — and Amazon Web Services […]

February 8, 2023

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is revising its cloud strategy and embarking on a push to ensure even its most highly classified forms of data are moved off-premise by 2025. The government department has issued a 39-page strategy document that […]

February 3, 2023

Despite contracting growth, AWS revenue buoyed its parent company’s overall performance for the year. Amazon posted a net loss of $2.7 billion, as compared to net gains of $33.4 billion in 2021. In contrast, AWS segment sales increased 29% year-over-year […]

January 31, 2023

Zurich Insurance Group has agreed to migrate its entire enterprise IT infrastructure estate to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud, and has set itself a goal of moving 1,000 of its applications off-premise by 2025. The company, which specialises […]

December 21, 2022

In the last few weeks, the IT industry has seen some very interesting activity from global hyperscale cloud providers surrounding their cloud sovereignty ambitions, and their scrutiny by the regulators covering some basics compliance requirements, like the European Union’s (EU) […]

December 19, 2022

As I noted recently, AWS seems to be getting religion about “integration as an essential product feature.” There’s plenty of progress to be made, but it feels like the exact right thing for AWS to do. The question is why […]

December 15, 2022

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure continues to make its mark as a hyperscale cloud provider, even though it remains small compared to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. But the Big Three might want to watch out. For its fiscal […]

December 8, 2022

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded major contracts for military cloud spending to AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday as part of its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability framework. The hybrid contracts carry a shared spending ceiling of $9 billion, […]

December 7, 2022

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) on Wednesday announced that its HPE GreenLake Private Cloud Enterprise offering is now available worldwide and features new hybrid cloud capabilities including support for Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Kubernetes software and an improved analytics tool that measures […]

December 6, 2022

IBM isn’t one of the big players in the pure cloud market, but the tech company wants to make a name for itself in hybrid cloud by targeting industry-specific solutions. Apart from mainframe domination, IBM has a history leveraging its […]

December 1, 2022

Organizations have many reasons to move to the cloud — efficiency, cost control, nimbleness. While security may not top the list, or determine cloud provider selection, it’s an attribute that Amazon Web Services says helps win over prospective customers. The […]

November 29, 2022

Cisco is taking steps to better control the performance and observability of cloud-based enterprise applications. At the AWS re:Invent conference this week, Cisco said it has added a feature called business transaction insights to its AppDynamics Cloud system so it […]