As a technologist, it’s important to be curious. This is true whether you’re just starting your career as a junior developer or if you’re the CTO of a Fortune 500 company. Curiosity, and the constant pursuit of learning, are things for which I’ve always dedicated time. In the past few decades, we’ve seen innovations in […]
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We are now in an era where many businesses are flipping their business model and shifting from subscription-based pricing to usage-based models, to better cater to the modern ‘pay-as-you-consume’ buyer. So what exactly is usage-based pricing? Usage-based pricing, also known as consumption-based pricing, enables customers to pay for how much they actually consume a given […]
On January 18th 2012, Jeff and Werner announced the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed flexible NoSQL database service for single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. During the last 10 years, hundreds of thousands of customers have adopted DynamoDB. It regularly reaches new peaks of performance and scalability. For example, during the last […]
When PS organizations compete in sales cycles, the first competitor to have a complete quote with accurate pricing, schedules, and an engagement plan will often win. However, getting a complete quote out fast is a major challenge for most PS organizations today. Many PS organizations manually create their quotes by taking into account a broad […]
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) is a set of security tools that an organization’s security team can use to gain visibility and manage security for their Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. SaaS is an increasingly popular model for consuming software. SaaS providers manage security via a shared responsibility model, in which customers protect their […]
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that detects security vulnerabilities in your code and provides intelligent recommendations to improve code quality. For example, CodeGuru Reviewer introduced Security Detectors for Java and Python code to identify security risks from the top ten Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) categories and follow security best practices for AWS […]
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) was announced in early 2015 and became generally available in 2016. We launched EFS in order to make it easier for you to build applications that need shared access to file data. EFS is (and always has been) simple and serverless: you simply create a file system, attach it […]
At AWS re:Invent 2021, we launched Amazon EC2 M6a instances powered by the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors, running at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz, which offer customers up to 35 percent improvement in price-performance compared to M5a instances. Many customers are looking for ways to optimize their cloud utilization, and they are taking advantage […]
Jonathan Custance, Co-Founder of Green Custard outlines how industrial organisations can leverage IoT to dramatically reduce their carbon footprint Technological progress and environmental sustainability have always been at the opposite ends of the spectrum. The former has been driven by advances in big data, IoT, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), all promising to transform […]
Introduction to Azure Storage Services Azure Storage is a set of cloud storage services provided by Microsoft as part of the Azure public cloud. It offers highly scalable object storage, file systems as a service, virtual disk storage, and specialized storage for messaging data and NoSQL datasets. Azure Storage services include the following specific service […]