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Google has used credits to bring startups to its cloud before, but now it’s upped the ante to $100,000. 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.
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Microsoft Azure now supports the management of Docker clusters using the Google-developed Kubernetes framework. What’s more, Microsoft has also open sourced a visual tool for managing those clusters via a graphical… Read more »