Amazon Releases New Cloud Services at re:Invent Conference

This is a big week for Amazon developers as Amazon’s annual web service developer conference kicks off in Las Vegas and the Day 1 keynote brought with it a slew of new product announcements.  Among them are a new Business Intelligence service, an interesting new device for transporting petabytes of data between data centers, and…

Amazon Unleashes New Cloud Offerings at AWS Summit

Amazon has announced several new cloud services during their AWS Summit as well as some new features on existing cloud services. Today’s AWS Summit Keynote included announcements for four new cloud services; Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Amazon Machine Learning, AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps, and Amazon Workspaces Application Manager.  They also showcased new features for EC2 including…

Fighting For the Cloud: Why Microsoft’s Battle Matters

Microsoft is fighting a US based court order demanding access to email stored on its servers in Ireland and has garnered support from major cloud players including Apple, Amazon, AT&T, and many others.  The results of this fight could change the shape of cloud computing forever. In December of 2013, the US Government hit Microsoft…

New Amazon Web Services Announced

Microsoft isn’t the only cloud vendor announcing new products this week.  Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference has been taking place in scenic Las Vegas and they too have rolled out a number of new cloud features to the masses.  Here’s a brief overview of what’s been announced so far. Security and Compliance Services AWS Key Management…