Welcome to a conversation with Michael Kleef, Vice President of Product Marketing, Developer Advocacy, and Competitive Intelligence at Akamai Technologies. Today, we’re privileged to have him share his insights with Cloud Tweaks on several pivotal questions surrounding the dynamic world of cloud computing. Michael’s extensive experience and keen understanding of the industry make him the […]

Update: December 20, 2023 — The list of services available today at launch is now updated with AWS Artifact, AWS Cloud Control API, AWS Directory Services, EC2 Image Builder, and AWS Transit Gateway for a new total of 70 services. Today, we are opening a new Region in Canada. AWS Canada West (Calgary), also known […]

Today, AWS India customers can now securely save their credit or debit cards in their AWS accounts according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines. Customers can use their saved cards to make payments for their AWS invoices. Previously, customers needed to manually enter their card information in the payments console for each payment. […]

As enterprises embrace cloud native and everything as code, the journey from code to production has become a critical aspect of delivering value to customers. This process, often referred to as the “pathway to deploy,” encompasses a series of intricate steps and decisions that can significantly impact an organization’s ability to deliver software efficiently, reliably […]

For many enterprises, the journey to cloud reduces technical debt costs and meets CapEx-to-OpEx objectives. This includes rearchitecting to microservices, lift-and-shift, replatforming, refactoring, replacing and more. As practices like DevOps, cloud native, serverless and site reliability engineering (SRE) mature, the focus is shifting toward significant levels of automation, speed, agility and business alignment with IT […]

As organizations collect larger data sets with potential insights into business activity, detecting anomalous data, or outliers in these data sets, is essential in discovering inefficiencies, rare events, the root cause of issues, or opportunities for operational improvements. But what is an anomaly and why is detecting it important? Types of anomalies vary by enterprise […]

Anycast is a standard, table-stakes feature of every authoritative DNS service. It makes sense: inbound queries should always be routed to the best available servers—usually the ones that are geographically closest. Yet, there is one glaring exception: China. The internet in mainland China is walled off from the rest of the world. Any DNS query that […]

My memories of Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2023 are still fresh even when I’m currently wrapping up my activities in Jakarta after participating in AWS Community Day Indonesia. It was a great experience, from delivering chalk talks and having thoughtful discussions with AWS service teams, to meeting with AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, and […]

Focus instead on where best to run your workloads and start using cost-conscious coding  The big cloud service providers are moving into AI – and this has some folks sounding the alarm. The narrative is that when businesses embrace the AI capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, they are handing over even more power to […]

Paying attention to the latest customer service trends ensures that an organization is prepared to meet changing customer expectations. Customer loyalty is waning, spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic, social influences and the ease of switching brands. More than ever, organizations must stay on top of changes in the customer service experience to improve customer […]