10 tips for stretching Amazon’s free services to the limit and keeping your cloud bill near zero. Free is a powerful incentive. When I taught a course on web frameworks at the local college, we designed the assignments to ensure that all of the experiments could be done quickly with Amazon Web Services’s collection of … Read more
As enterprises ramp up edge computing deployments, the big three clouds are ponying up a surprising array of edge options for a broad range of needs. It might surprise you to learn that the big three public clouds – AWS, Google Could Platform, and Microsoft Azure – are all starting to provide edge computing capabilities. It’s puzzling, … Read more
AWS executive’s remarks over the company’s exploitation of open source have put a question mark over the viability of open source businesses. In December, a New York Times article suggested that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was strip-mining open source projects by providing managed services based on open source code, without contributing back to the community. In response to the … Read more
New York Times accuses the public cloud provider of taking open source products and integrating them into its own managed services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has accused the New York Times of publishing misleading information, after the newspaper published a 3,000-word article on the public cloud giant’s misuse and exploitation of open source. During 2019, there have … Read more
“Born-in the Cloud” workloads might be designed to be platform-agnostic now, but that doesn’t mean it will always be the case, as hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure continue to add specific and unique functionality to their hosted services. The evolution of the consumer cloud has been tied to the services that the major … Read more
They probably didn’t see that coming… MongoDB’s switch to server-side licensing may have backfired, as AWS launches an API-compatible version. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a fully managed MongoDB compatible database service, effectively killing off MongoDB’s revenue stream. AWS has introduced a new service, Amazon DocumentDB, which is compatible with MongoDB, providing what the cloud giant … Read more
