The AWS Free Tier has been around since 2010 and allows you to use generous amounts of over 100 different AWS services. Some services offer free trials, others are free for the first 12 months after you sign up, and still others are always free, up to a per-service maximum. Our intent is to make […]

AWS Graviton2 processors are custom-built by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores to deliver the best price-performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). They provide up to 40 percent better price-performance over comparable x86-based instances for a wide variety of workloads. Many of our customers such as Intuit, SmugMug, […]

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) is designed to help you to build and then execute a comprehensive plan for your digital transformation. Taking advantage of AWS best practices and lessons learned from thousands of customer engagements, the AWS CAF will help you to identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, evaluate and improve your cloud […]

Over the past few years, VPNs have become increasingly widely used by the general public. Initially, they were used exclusively by the tech-savvy and privacy obsessed, but as the dangers of our data being used and sold has hit headlines across the world, more and more folks have turned to VPNs to protect their browsing […]

In August, we introduced the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6i instances powered by the latest generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. Compute-optimized EC2 C6i instances were also made available last month. Today, I am happy to share that we are expanding our sixth-generation x86-based offerings to […]

Modern apps are not monolithic; they’re composed of a complex graph of interconnected microservices, where the response time for one component can impact the performance of the entire system. For instance, a page load on an e-commerce website may require inputs from a dozen microservices, each of which must execute quickly to render the entire […]

Supply chain and manufacturing environments are evolving rapidly in the face of industry 4.0 advancements and the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizations across industries are trying to navigate this challenging landscape and implement technologies, processes, and operations that help them connect all the different components that make up their business. Ronald van Loon is […]

Should disaster strike, business continuity can require more than just periodic data backups. A full recovery that meets the business’s recovery time objectives (RTOs) must also include the infrastructure, operating systems, applications, and configurations used to process their data. The growing threats of ransomware highlight the need to be able to perform a full point-in-time […]

NoSQL is becoming the must have for organizations needing to manage data in ways that traditional relational databases were just not designed for. What has the industry media been saying about it? Matthew Groves product marketing manager at Couchbase joins host Steve Prentice to look at a few selected media stories about NoSQL. By Steve […]

Tether (USDT) is a type of cryptocurrency known as a stable-coin. It’s price is pegged to $1 USD, with the cash to back the currency held in a reserve bank account. As of October 2021, USDT was worth more than $68 billion, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The idea of stable-coins is, unsurprisingly, to […]