I interviewed Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy today at the AWS re:Invent conference. Before the interview I asked my Twitter followers for questions to ask.
I could not use all of the questions but I’ve included a few here to give you a snapshot of the full recording, which is embedded below. → Read More
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Redshift, a new petabyte-scale data warehouse service intended to disrupt the old-guard data warehouse providers. Senior Vice President for AWS Andy Jassy made the announcement on stage at AWS re:Invent, the cloud group’s first annual conference here in Las Vegas. → Read More
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on stage at AWS re:Invent that it has dropped pricing about 25 percent across the board for its S3 storage service. Senior Vice President of Amazon Web Services Andy Jassy said the price drop will go into effect December 1. AWS has dropped prices 23 times since 2006. Jassy attributed the price drops to what he sees as a virtuous circle that has emerged as AWS… → Read More
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expected to earn $1.5 billion in revenues this year, but overall the organization still remains under-appreciated as a core asset of Amazon.com. But that may change this week as AWS holds its first conference in Las Vegas. The event should give more attention to an organization that has had arguably the deepest impact on IT and the enterprise software market. → Read More
Netflix is open sourcing its libraries for connecting the numerous services it uses on Amazon Web Services to keep its business running. Dubbed Hystrix, the offering is just another example of how Netflix has become the model for how to deploy and maintain a cloud infrastructure. → Read More
Over the last few years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has emerged as one of the most popular cloud infrastructure solutions out there, managing an unusual feat for those of its ilk by appealing equally to both early stage startups and enterprise. While it provides access to next-gen computing and hosting services for cheap and scales like a champ, the onboarding process remains tough for startups and… → Read More
Netflix is going to the movies with its new Open Source Center on Github. In a clever play, Netflix has taken its well-known brand and placed it on GitHub to show each of its open-source projects as its own movie, genre and characters. → Read More
Amazon has revealed a bit of detail for how it views Google’s cloud efforts in a lawsuit filed against a former employee on grounds he violated a non-compete clause.
Amazon filed the lawsuit on behalf of Amazon Web Services, claiming Daniel Powers, its former vice president of sales, has violated a severance agreement by taking a new job at Google as a director of cloud platform sales. → Read More
A memory leak and a failed monitoring system caused the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday that took out Reddit and other major services. According to a post Friday night, AWS explained that the problem arose after a simple replacement of a data collection server. → Read More
Dreamhost has built a public cloud service called DreamCompute that is built on OpenStack, the open cloud infrastructure. The new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) shows how a federated, universal cloud will bind open and proprietary offerings to give customers a greater choice and enhance the value of the overall market. → Read More
Cloudscaling has opened up the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs to OpenStack, allowing customers that use the open, federated cloud to access Google’s vast cloud infrastructure.
Cloudscaling, a San Francisco startup, is one of the pioneers in building clouds in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) style. The company will provide engineering and code development to implement GCE APIs into the OpenStack… → Read More
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is the kind of service that Amazon Web Services (AWS) does so well. It automates the manual task of adding email to apps so developers can focus on doing what they do best. → Read More
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new pricing option for its Relational Database Service (RDS) running on Oracle with a micro instance. The addition follows announcements over the past few months about Oracle on AWS. → Read More
SkySQL released its first version of a configuration tool for deploying databases to a cloud environment. To start, the company will offers its configuration tool for use on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It will later extend its service to other cloud and bare metal environments.
The SkySQL service is meant for database administrators but in particular has the end user in mind who may lack the… → Read More
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding in Japan through the opening of a new availability zone. The move means that AWS will most likely be adding more data centers to keep up with the steady demand it has had since it first began offering its service in Tokyo 18 months ago.
AWS breaks its regions into availability zones. Each availability zone can encompass multiple data centers. For example… → Read More
Amazon Web Services (AWS) added support today for a browser specification that defines ways for apps to allow resources to be accessed by web pages from different domains. The practice is called Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and has been requested by AWS users for the past few years.
The new service represents another way that AWS automates tasks that developers once had to do… → Read More
I am not one to argue with abundance. I am a big believer in the way we can create so much, all the time.
But I can’t stand an abundance of vendor one-upmanship and that’s just what I heard this morning at CloudOpen in a panel discussion about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) v. Platform as a Service (PaaS). → Read More
Amazon Web Services has extended its Cloud-storage offerings today with the launch of a new product: Amazon Glacier, described as a “secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage solution” designed for data archiving and backup.
The e-tailer is pitching for use-cases where the data that is infrequently accessed, such as media archives, financial and healthcare records, raw genomic sequence… → Read More
I need to lighten things up a bit with all this Oracle brouhaha.
Oracle acquired Xsigo recently. I wrote about the acquisition and how Oracle will lose as IT gets virtualized. Oracle’s Bob Evans came back with his own special brand of attack. Yesterday I responded with my post: Open? Yeah, Sure. Sorry Oracle, You’re Still Full Of It. → Read More
During the great Amazon Web Services outages of April 2011 and June 2012 many users were stuck. They could, in theory, move their apps to another AWS region, or to another cloud provider altogether. But in practice the architecture of AWS regions are unique – each one supports slightly different features and APIs.
The thing is, every cloud provider will eventually have some downtime. Quite… → Read More
Netflix has become a model for the cloud, developing new tools for managing apps on a cloud infrastructure. Today the company has open sourced ”chaos monkey,” its tool designed to purposely cause failure in order to increase the resiliency of an application in Amazon Web Services (AWS.)
It’s a timely move. AWS has had its fair share of outages. With tools like Chaos Monkey, companies can be… → Read More
The app store model, pioneered by companies like Handango and popularized by Apple, has become the preferred method for distributing software on everything from desktops to post-PC devices. We’re also seeing this model in the cloud, mostly through software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, such as the Google Apps Marketplace. But what’s been missing so far is a platform-as-a-service that allows you… → Read More
Google has a new cloud partner program that shows the company’s drive to go after old IT.
In a blog post today, Google provided some details about it with a link to a list of the technology and service providers that are part of the program. → Read More
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aggressively offering a service called reserve instances. For a one-time fee, companies may have the option to launch an EC2 instance for one or three years. AWS maintains it lowers costs as you get a choice of the types of instances you buy . You can get discounts by buying on a volume basis.
Reserved instances means AWS guarantees the capacity you need for the… → Read More
As we all know by now, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had an outage on Friday. It would not have been much of a big deal except that it was AWS. And the fact that the outage took down big consumer properties like Netflix and Instagram.
AWS is usually quite silent about what it does but to its credit they have posted a lengthy explanation about what happened in North Carolina when the massive storms… → Read More
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing business run by internet retailer Amazon, today announced a revamp to its support offerings. The company cut the prices for its premium (paid) support offerings, while also automatically enrolling its customers in the “Basic” support tier for free. In conjunction with the changes, AWS also rebranded its support tiers from Bronze, Silver, Gold and… → Read More
It looks like Amazon Web Services may be launching a new workflow manager called SWF. First spotted by TechCrunch reader Michael Hood, SWF is listed as a service under AWS’ Free Usage Tier. Unfortunately, clicking on SWF takes you to a ’404′ page.
Upon further digging, it looks like SWF stands for ‘Amazon Simple Workflow Service.’ It basically starts, runs, and retains workflow executions, as… → Read More
After launching distributed database DynamoDB last week, Amazon Web Services is debuting another product—AWS Storage Gateway, which is a service that provides enterprises with a new option to securely upload and backup data to the AWS cloud from on-premises software appliances.
Basically, the Gateway connect san on-premises software appliance with Amazon’s cloud-based storage for a more… → Read More
Many government agencies have been slower to adopt the cloud because of the specific regulatory requirements, compliance issues and security regulations. To mitigate this, Amazon Web Services is launching AWS GovCloud, a new secure region specialized for U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud.
Amazon says that many government agencies with data… → Read More
In 2009, Amazon launched the Virtual Private Cloud (also known as Amazon VPC), which makes it possible for customers to create their own isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances to connect to their existing network over a secured VPN connection to a datacenter. This promises enterprise-level security. Today, Amazon Web Services is extended the functionality of VPC, allowing users to make their VPC… → Read More
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