GigaomHealthcare.gov cloud provider switch is delayed till next year
Verizon keeps most of the site’s business — for now — with subcontracting help from Hewlett-Packard and Amazon Web Services, according to reports. But change is coming. Read more »
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The service is advertised as providing a large computing capacity (potentially many servers) much faster and cheaper than building a physical server farm.
MoreVerizon keeps most of the site’s business — for now — with subcontracting help from Hewlett-Packard and Amazon Web Services, according to reports. But change is coming. Read more »
RBC Capital Markets boils down the basics of cloud computing — storage, compute, I/O and a few other features — to come up with one unit of cloud pricing that can… Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, hear how Talko stood on the shoulders of AWS and Azure — and wielded the Opus codec, WebRTC, FreeSwitch and other open-source tools to build an… Read more »
Google’s taken another whack at compute pricing; expect Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to respond. Read more »
Both companies said they’ve had to be cagey about the Xen vulnerability until now, but offered a bit more information about the patching process and — in Rackspace’s case — an… Read more »
IBM SoftLayer is addressing the same Xen hypervisor vulnerability that sparked reboots by Amazon Web Services and Rackspace — but it’s doing so days later. Read more »
The recent major reboots of cloud-based infrastructure by Amazon and Rackspace has resurfaced the question about cloud instability. Days before the reboot, both Amazon and Rackspace noted that the reboots were… Read more »
… not that they’d admit it. Both cloud providers had to restart a bunch of customers’ workloads over the weekend. Live migration could have nipped that angst in the bud. Read more »
On Monday, Cisco added BT, Deutsche Telekom, Equinix to a roster of partners building Cisco-based clouds based on — yes — Cisco hardware. Read more »
The week in cloud: Amazon Web Services and Rackspace both acknowledged that they needed to re-start a big chunk of their public cloud infrastructure due to a non-disclosed Xen issue. Read more »