It’s a big day for Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service today. Not only can you now run EC2 inside a Snowball Edge device, but the company also announced a bunch of new EC2 instance types in the cloud. Thanks to these new instance types, developers now have access to a new instance type (Z1d) with […]
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With its Snowball Edge, AWS now lets you run EC2 on your factory floor
AWS’s Snowball Edge devices aren’t new, but they are getting a new feature today that’ll make them infinitely more interesting than before. Until now, you could use the device to move lots of data and perform some computing tasks on them, courtesy of the AWS Greengrass service and Lambda that run on the device. But AWS […]
View More With its Snowball Edge, AWS now lets you run EC2 on your factory floorCrypto and venture’s biggest names are backing a new distributed ledger project called Oasis Labs
A team of top security researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and MIT have come together to launch a new cryptographic project that combines secure software and hardware to enable privacy-preserving smart contracts under the banner of Oasis Labs. That vision, which is being marketed as the baby of a union between Ethereum and […]
View More Crypto and venture’s biggest names are backing a new distributed ledger project called Oasis LabsAfter twenty years of Salesforce, what Marc Benioff got right and wrong about the cloud
Grant Miller Contributor Share on Twitter Grant Miller is the co-founder of Replicated As we enter the 20th year of Salesforce, there’s an interesting opportunity to reflect back on the change that Marc Benioff created with the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for enterprise software with his launch of Salesforce.com. This model has been validated by the […]
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When you think of Amazon, you think of “the everything store.” The place you go to when you want to purchase a 50-lb. bag of limited-ingredient dog food, or a 100-count package of industrial pipe cleaners, or the finest toenail clipper money can buy. But that digital storefront is just the tip of the Amazon iceberg. Under the leadership of its CEO Jeff Bezos, Amazon has put its fingers in many, many pies over the years. There’s its warehouse-for-hire service, Fulfillment by Amazon. There’s its industry-razing Kindle eBook store. There’s even a chain of checkout-free grocery stores on the horizon Read more…
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View More Learn how Amazon Web Services works and create a career for yourselfHow Yelp (mostly) shut down its own data centers and moved to AWS
Back in 2013, Yelp was a 9-year old company built on a set of internal systems. It was coming to the realization that running its own data centers might not be the most efficient way to run a business that was continuing to scale rapidly. At the same time, the company understood that the tech […]
View More How Yelp (mostly) shut down its own data centers and moved to AWSGDPR, China, and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and Google
The Great Privacy Policy Email Deluge of 2018 may have finally petered out, but we are just starting to build an understanding of who the winners and losers will be in this newly regulated data economy. Most of the attention so far has been focused on the losers post-GDPR, which can be broadly summarized as […]
View More GDPR, China, and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and GoogleAmazon’s new blockchain service competes with similar products from Oracle and IBM
Amazon Web Services announced Blockchain Templates late last week, a “blockchain -as-a-service” offering that competes with similar products from Oracle and IBM. The launch shows how eager the biggest enterprise players are to get ahead in the blockchain game even if their customers are still trying to pinpoint exactly what blockchain can do for them […]
View More Amazon’s new blockchain service competes with similar products from Oracle and IBMAmazon introduces new private certificate feature
At the Amazon Summit in San Francisco today, the company announced a new cloud service that enables organizations to create and manage private certificates in the cloud. While the Summit wasn’t chock full of announcements like the annual re:Invent conference, it did offer some new services like the beefing up the AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) […]
View More Amazon introduces new private certificate featureAWS adds automated point-in-time recovery to DynamoDB
One of the joys of cloud computing is handing over your data to the cloud vendor and letting them handle the heavy lifting. Up until now that has meant they updated the software or scaled the hardware for you. Today, AWS took that to another level when it announced Amazon DynamoDB Continuous Backups and Point-In-Time Recovery […]
View More AWS adds automated point-in-time recovery to DynamoDBAmazon lays off hundreds, pointing to Jeff Bezos’ focus on Alexa
Amazon sells clothes and other fun products, but in 2018, the tech giant is doubling down on technology.
The latest sign: Amazon plans to lay off hundreds of employees, primarily in the consumer retail side of the business, the Seattle Times re…
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