Businesses are faced with several decisions when considering how to host a new website or web-based application. The choices a company makes can have a dramatic effect on its ability to compete with market rivals and obtain the most value from its computing environment. In this article, we will be looking at the benefits a […]
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Over the course of more than one hundred years, the telecom industry has become standardized and regulated, and has developed methods, technologies, and an entire vocabulary (chock full of interesting acronyms) along the way. As an industry, they need to honor this tremendous legacy while also taking advantage of new technology, all in the name […]
Working with computers is nothing new, we have been doing it for more than 150 years. In all of that time, one thing has remained constant — all of our interfaces have been driven by the capabilities (and limitations) of the machine. Sure, we have come a long way from looms and punch cards, but […]
A big challenge for professionals of all ages is time. Balancing the responsibilities of work and life leave little time for self-improvement in the form of education. But ongoing education is more than just self-improvement. It’s also necessary. Technology continues to evolve and companies struggle to keep pace. They are in constant need of people […]
Since the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria, Amazon has activated disaster relief services to quickly provide relief items to impacted areas. The company and Amazon customers have donated nearly 100,000 relief items so far, and donations continue to come in. The AWS Disaster Preparedness and Response team is providing trained technical volunteers and solutions […]
Knowing which areas to focus on in a cybersecurity budget to drive the most significant business value is a must-have skill for CISOs. Deloitte recently found that cybersecurity is core to cloud-based digital transformation, accounting for nearly 50% of the initiatives’ success. As they look at benchmarking and budgeting as the first step in driving revenue gains and advancing […]
We often talk about the Pace of Innovation at AWS, and share the results in this blog, in the AWS What’s New page, and in our weekly AWS on Air streams. Today I would like to talk about a slightly different kind of innovation, the kind that happens behind the scenes. Each AWS customer uses […]
Book ReviewThe Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloudby David Anderson with Mark McCann and Michael O’Reilly Recently, a new book came to my attention that explores the intersection of business, technology, and people. This is a great read for anyone who wants to understand how organizations can […]
The explosion in AI technologies has brought with it clear concern that easy answers and intelligent copywriting are now the domain of machines. This has led to the question of whether there is any point to getting enough education to write similar reports or to even think like an IT pro at all. The reasoning […]
We’ve come a long way since the launch of the m1.small instance in 2006, adding instances with additional memory, compute power, and your choice of Intel, AMD, or Graviton processors. The original general-purpose “one size fits all” instance has evolved into six families, each one optimized for specific uses cases, with over 600 generally available […]