Michael Otey

This past October 20th, 2021 Amazon announced the general availability of their new AWS Panorama appliance. Adding to their ever increasing number of on-premises solutions, AWS Panorama shows exactly how seriously AWS takes the hybrid cloud market. What is AWS Panorama? The AWS Panorama appliance is a computer vision (CV) appliance that uses Machine Learning (ML) to…

This past Oct 5th 2021, Amazon announced the general availability of VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. In case you’re not familiar with AWS Outposts, they have been available since December 2019. AWS Outposts are essentially an Amazon provided hardware platform that runs on-premise and supplies hybrid cloud services.  Amazon provides the hardware and software and…

Amazon EKS Anywhere is a deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables you to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises using VMware vSphere. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed container service that allows you to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the AWS cloud. In fact, according to the Cloud Native…

One of the major announcements from this past AWS Storage Day 2021, September 2nd 2021, was Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed storage service that enables businesses to run NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS cloud. ONTAP from NetApp  is an enterprise data management solution designed to provide…

It’s time to get ready for the big online AWS event of the year – the AWS Summit Online for the Americas. The AWS Summit Online – Americas is a free three-day event. It features keynotes from industry leaders, dive deep educational sessions, interactive labs, and one on one chats with AWS experts. The AWS…

It seems hard to believe but Amazon Web Services EC2 was first launched back in 2006. It was Amazon’s third major cloud service behind their Simple Storage Service (S3) and Simple Queue Service (SQS).  I think it’s fair to say that Amazon EC2 was the driving force behind many businesses’ initial move toward Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)….

On July 19th 2021, Amazon announced the general availability of their new Amazon ECS io2 Block Express volumes service.  Amazon io2 volumes have been available since 2020 and they are essentially provisioned SSDs designed to deliver 99.999% durability. Amazon ECS io2 Block Express are io2 volumes running on the EBS Block Express architecture. ECS io2…

One of the things that Amazon recommends for high availability is to be sure that your services span multiple AWS regions. The need for this advice was definitely underlined last week when the AWS Frankfurt data center experienced a failure. While this sort of thing is extremely, rare it does happen. When your services can…

Location and mapping are vital aspects of many mobile applications. However, developers face significant barriers to integrating location functionality into their applications. Integrating location services with your other mobile and web services can be difficult and time-consuming. Plus, there are issues around cost, privacy and security. First announced as a preview back in December 2020,…

This past May 2021, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere.  While most organizations are looking to run their containerized workloads in the cloud, there are circumstances where they might also want to run them on-premise. That can create problems because managing your container workloads in the cloud and on-premise…