AWS

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.

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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

The cloud market has continued to grow at a rapid pace and according to research by Synergy Research Group Amazon AWS remains the clear leader in the cloud market. Synergy Research Group estimated that cloud growth is 37% per year and they also noted that the rate of growth for the cloud market is beginning to slow down.

Amazon AWS is today’s leading cloud provider supporting millions of customers with over 175 cloud services from 22 geographic regions around the world. AWS has been available for over 13 years yet Amazon continues to evolve AWS at an extremely rapid pace. Some of the recent AWS announcements from January 2020 include:

AWS Backup was first released last year in January 2019 and since that time Amazon has reported that over 20,000 customers are using it to protect their Amazon cloud and on-premise services.

While businesses have been adopting the cloud and cloud services at an ever-increasing rate not everybody has made the move to the cloud. There are still businesses that are evaluating the different cloud providers and their offerings and here is what Amazon offers for 'free'.

A first look at Microsoft Azure's new cross-platform hybrid management service, Azure Arc.

During May, the month was filled with Azure announcements, here are the key items that you need to know about.

In my monthly summary, I will summarize all the Azure infrastructure news from April, which appeared to be a month for security announcements.