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.
Where is the future of cloud infrastructure going? Gigaom’s annual Structure conference explores the answer to this question and more about the cloud market this June 18 and 19 in San Francisco. Read more »
The week in cloud: Microsoft Azure makes big strides in cloud and AWS gets more aggressive in the enterprise with new portal for VMware admins. Read more »
This week’s Structure show: Bill Fathers on VMware’s hybrid cloud opportunity; And Mesophere founder Florian Leibert on the beauty of Mesos for management of massive resource pools. Read more »
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Big data vendor Cloudera is no Google when it comes to data center footprint, but the cost and complexity of its infrastructure are growing with each passing year. Cloudera VP of… Read more »
Now that it has a name, Verizon has started revealing more details about its new LTE network in the AWS band. It covers half of Verizon’s current 4G footprint and 35… Read more »