Update: AWS cloud storage back online after outage cripples popular sites

(Shutterstock Image). An outage of Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (S3) impacted sites across the internet Tuesday. Continue reading for our story and updates as events unfolded. RELATED: Amazon explains big…

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Matson, AWS, and overcoming the cloud lock-in challenge for big data

Shipping giant Matson made news back in November with its major migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Matson’s recent announcement to go ‘all in’ with AWS is another example of large…

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AWS and Microsoft get FedRAMP acclaim for touchy cloud statistics

Every other day, another piece of suitable information for both Microsoft Azure and Amazon web offerings (AWS); the providers are two of 3 companies which have been given authority by…

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Analysing the latest AWS services: Certificate Manager, Lambda, and DevSecOps

Picture credit: "The Crunchies Awards 2008", by "Nandor Fejer", used under CC BY / Modified from original The Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud is continuing its pace of rapid, iterative…

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Apple’s CloudKit is the MBaaS Answer to AWS and Azure Cloud Services

Among the flurry of news announced during theWWDC event by Apple as part of its annual developer conference, there were over a very interesting announcement made by Apple in the…

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Latest cloud infrastructure research shows yet more AWS dominance

This is not the most surprising news you will hear today: a note published by Synergy Research argues Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) domination of the cloud infrastructure market continues. The…

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AWS: examine fine print in data transfer legislation

In a week that has seen the European Court of Justice rule that the Safe Harbour agreement on data transfer as invalid, the significance of data transfer legislation in South East…

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Accenture enhances its Cloud Platform

Business consulting firm Accenture had released an enhanced version of its Accenture Cloud Platform, designed to improve its ability to help with the governance and control of cloud applications. Accenture…

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