Earlier this week, I ordered from Amazon.fr a box of four toothpaste tubes, but only one was in the box. I called Amazon’s customer center. The agent immediately found my order without me having to share the long order number. She issued a refund and told me I even can keep the one tube I […]

For as long as I can remember there have been discussions about remote work and when that would become the reality for almost everyone on the planet. Tim Ferriss discussed in his book The Four Hour Work Week over a decade ago that the technology to facilitate us remotely working from any part of the […]

Google has been running carbon-neutral since 2007 and recently announced that they will run on carbon-free energy by 2030. As more of the major cloud providers also commit to reaching zero-net emissions by 2030, there is a spotlight on green cloud computing which leads to the discussion of cloud waste and the cloud resources that […]

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we previewed Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes, the next-generation server storage architecture that delivers the first SAN built for the cloud. Block Express is designed to meet the requirements of the largest, most I/O-intensive, mission-critical deployments of Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, and SAS Analytics on AWS. Today, I […]

Ongoing trends in the Telco/DSP industry such as M&As, migration of the application to the cloud, and modernization of legacy applications have increased the frequency and scope of data migration. According to Gartner, 50% of the data migration initiatives will exceed their budget and timeline by 2022 due to flawed strategy and execution. Most of […]

IT security teams need to have a real-time understanding of what’s happening with their infrastructure and applications. They need to be able to find and correlate data in this continuous flood of information to identify unexpected behaviors or patterns that can lead to a security breach. To simplify and automate this process, many solutions have […]

IT security teams need to have a real-time understanding of what’s happening with their infrastructure and applications. They need to be able to find and correlate data in this continuous flood of information to identify unexpected behaviors or patterns that can lead to a security breach. To simplify and automate this process, many solutions have […]

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we previewed Amazon HealthLake, a fully managed, HIPAA-eligible service that allows healthcare and life sciences customers to aggregate their health information from different silos and formats into a structured, centralized AWS data lake, and extract insights from that data with analytics and machine learning (ML). Today, I’m very happy to announce […]

Data has become a lot more important in our modern society. It is why many people consider data to be the new oil. It is as valuable as oil, and you can get many benefits from using data in that way. There are many software programs available today that can be used to manipulate data […]

Time sure does fly! I wrote about the production launch of Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) back in 2006, with no inkling that I would still be blogging fifteen years later, or that this service would still be growing rapidly while remaining fundamental to the architecture of so many different types of web-scale applications. The […]