AWS

Amazon has announced the launch of a new AWS region in Hyderabad, India. The company says the new infrastructure region will help to drive digital transformation with approximately $4.4 billion investment in the South Asian market by 2030. Specifically, AWS first started working on this new cloud region Hyderabad region in late 2020. The company…

Amazon announced earlier this month the availability of the AWS Resource Explorer. This new Amazon Web Services tool enables you to search through the AWS resources in your account across all different Regions. If you have a substantial AWS cloud deployment, then you probably know that finding specific resources in your environment can be a…

If you are working in a multi-cloud environment involving Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, you may be using AWS Direct Connect or Azure ExpressRoute to set up a private interconnection to your on-premises resources. In this article, I’ll explain how you can enable AWS Direct Connect redundancy with Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute by using physical…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a new cloud computing region in Switzerland. The Europe AWS region will enable the company to create 2,500 full-time jobs annually in various industries such as engineering, telecommunications, facility maintenance, and construction through 2036. According to AWS, the new cloud region in the beautiful city of…

Amazon may have been a bit late to the hybrid cloud party, but their latest Amazon Web Services announcements leave no doubt that it has become a big deal for them. This past October 2022, the company announced that they have essentially doubled the computing power of its Snowball Edge device. Snowball Edge is a…

In this article, we’ll explore what you need to take into account when moving workloads that require a directory service like Active Directory (AD) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). As we’ll see, there are currently two options for deploying Active Directory-dependent workloads on AWS, using AWS Managed Active Directory or self-hosting Active Directory on AWS…

For organizations looking to use Amazon Web Services to get highly available storage for their Windows applications with full Server Message Block (SMB) support, AWS FSx for Windows File Server is the platform’s native option. Typical use cases are client-mapped drives, file shares for application integrations, and user home directories. In this guide, we’ll go…

Amazon announced last week the availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on AWS Outposts. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that enables you to use the open-source container orchestration platform on AWS and on-premises data centers. As for AWS Outposts, it’s a family of on-premises fully managed solutions that deliver a hybrid Amazon…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a new data center in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Over the next 15 years, the company plans to invest around $5 billion in the country to support business growth and accelerate innovation. AWS opened its first Middle East cloud region in Bahrain in July 2019….

Microsoft has announced some important changes to its restrictive software licensing policies that should reduce the price of running Microsoft software on non-Azure clouds. The new licensing terms, which will go into effect on October 1, 2022, aim to address complaints from rival European cloud providers about Microsoft’s anti-competitive tactics. “We recognize the importance of…