Cloud Computing

There’s no doubt that file systems are some of the most fundamental cloud services, as they provide storage for cloud-native apps, hybrid apps, and on-premise backups. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across your AWS services. Using AWS Backup and its new support for S3, you can centrally…

Microsoft has announced this morning some improvements for its Defender for Cloud suite. The company says that the Microsoft Defender for Cloud service will now provide native support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, and this capability is currently available in public preview for all enterprise customers. Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly known as Azure…

Microsoft is planning to launch a new AI infrastructure service called “Singularity.” In a research paper published yesterday titled “Singularity: Planet-Scale, Preemptive and Elastic Scheduling of AI Workloads,” the company explained that this new AI platform service should help to minimize the cost of artificial intelligence (via ZDNet). With Microsoft’s Singularity distributed infrastructure service, data…

Last year, Microsoft unveiled Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise, a fully managed service designed for enterprise developers. Now, the Redmond giant has announced that Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is available in public preview for all customers. For those unfamiliar, Azure Spring Cloud is a cloud-based service that provides tools and frameworks to help developers deploy Spring…

After experiencing several regional outages late last year, Amazon has been adding replication technologies to several of their main storage technologies. Last month, Amazon added replication to their Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and the company followed up this month by announcing Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Batch Replication. Batch Replication is a fully managed,…

Earlier this week, Amazon announced some important compliance updates for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. The company says that its popular cloud file storage service is finally FedRAMP compliant. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program For those unfamiliar, FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) is a US government program that helps to standardize…

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) allows EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions and containers to share access to a fully-managed, high performance and highly available file system. Amazon EFS delivers low-latency performance for a wide variety of workloads and can scale to thousands of concurrent clients or connections. EFS can scale automatically and you only pay for…

You may certainly be familiar with the terms that begin with ‘the cloud’ like cloud computing, cloud storage, or cloud platforms. Simply put, the term ‘cloud’ encompasses all the processes and services that can be accessed over the Internet. This article explains how Amazon Web Services (AWS) fits into that picture. The services offered by…

Amazon started off this new year with one pretty big change for Amazon Web Services (AWS). They updated the AWS Management Console. The AWS Management Console is probably the most frequently used AWS tool. The AWS Management Console is a web application that enables you to access and mange AWS resources. Until this past update…

A lot of businesses are in the process of modernizing their applications as a part of their digital transformation strategies and the adoption of Kubernetes is a big part of this trend. As businesses have begun migrating toward containers and micros-service type applications, Kubernetes has been quickly becoming the defacto standard for container management and…