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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,… Read More

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… Read More

Unless you’ve been working out of a cave, you’ve probably heard that containers are the future in app development and that many businesses have been looking into using Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerized solutions to update their applications. However, moving to a new containerized platform can be difficult – requiring the mastery of lots of… Read More

Amazon Nimble Studio is a new service that businesses and creative studios can use to produce digital content and CGI animations entirely in the AWS cloud. In the past, businesses relied on building and maintaining local server farms that consisted of high-performance systems in order to produce digital content. This typically required either expensive hardware… Read More

One of the most significant enhancements for AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is the release of AWS S3 Object Lambda. In case you were wondering what Lambda is, Lambda is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the programming world, a Lambda function is a small anonymous function or block of code that can… Read More

I know it seems almost impossible that it really could be 15 years but AWS launched its first service on Pi day March 14 2006 -- making AWS 15 years old

The SolarWinds exploit was one of the biggest security breaches of the past year. There’s now no doubt that this cyberattack was the result of a very sophisticated effort. Microsoft estimated that it was the likely result of a 1000 engineers working on the creation of the malware. The attack worked by compromising SolarWinds’ software… Read More

First announced back in November 2018, this past September 30th,  2020 Amazon announced that AWS Timestream was generally available.

September was Ignite month – I will get to that in a moment. That means there should be lots of news. And this should be a post full of Azure announcements. But will it be?

Amazon has released their new Porting Assistant for .NET that’s designed to port Windows-specific .NET Framework code to the new cross-platform .NET Core.

AWS Outposts are essentially a hardware platform that runs on-premise but it is managed like the AWS cloud and they are now available with RDS support.

No code application building has long been the Holy Grail of app development. The idea behind no code development is to simplify the application development process to bring it within the capability of regular business users. No code development tools promise to reduce the complexity and costs of the application development process as well as… Read More

This past May, 2020 Amazon presented their AWS Summit - US and Canada with a keynote by their Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, and a collection of about 40 additional technical sessions. Amazon’s AWS Summit is a free online conference that is presented as a series of events in each of its major global regions. Like… Read More

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Amazon has just released the preview version of its new container optimized OS