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Amazon No Longer Building New York Headquarters Due to Backlash

May 30, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Amazon announced Thursday it will not build its second headquarters in New York City amid growing opposition to the project. The online retailer faced opposition from some New York politicians, who were unhappy with the nearly $3 billion in tax incentives Amazon was promised.… Read more

How Yelp Saves 2x more with AWS Spot Fleet on Apache Mesos

May 30, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

The following is a summary of the presentation “How Yelp.com Runs on Apache Mesos in AWS Spot Fleet” delivered by Kyle Anderson, Site Reliability Engineer from Yelp at MesosCon Los Angeles. Anderson helps build and run “PaaSTA”, Yelp’s open source platform-as-a-service built on Mesos, running on a hybrid infrastructure composed of AWS and bare metal servers.… Read more

Apple, IBM heads join White House panel on workforce automation

May 30, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Apple CEO Tim Cook and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty will be among the company executives who will be joining a Trump administration advisory board set to deal with the effects of artificial intelligence and automation on the workforce. According to Reuters, the panel will be co-chaired by Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.… Read more

Google will have offices and data centers in 24 states by the end of 2019

May 30, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Google is still closely associated with California to many people (and to a lesser degree New York), but it’s determined to change that reputation. The company is launching a $13 billion expansion in 2019 that will give it a total US footprint of 24 states, including “major expansions” in 14 states.… Read more

Seattle’s VC firms raised more new funds in 2018 than they had in 10 years

May 29, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Seattle is far from a nascent startup ecosystem, but despite the presence of tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, the city still lags behind tech hubs like Boston and New York City in terms of venture capital raised. But a new study indicates that Seattle is starting to make progress on that front.… Read more

AWS Lightsail load balancers

May 29, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

A Lightsail load balancer distributes incoming application traffic among multiple Lightsail instances, in multiple Availability Zones. Load balancing can increase the fault tolerance of your applications and helps makes them more highly available. The load balancer serves as a single point of contact for clients, which increases the availability of your application.… Read more