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Explain AWS Services in Old-School Term
When I start playing Amazon AWS, one of thing struggling me is the service name introduced by Amazon. As the old-school system admin, I think this infographic may help someone like me to understand the aws services better. Compute EC2 👉 Virtual Private Server EC2...
AMAZON’S INVASION OF THE CIA IS A SEISMIC SHIFT IN CLOUD COMPUTING
The view from the Amazon Web Services building, in downtown Seattle. THE RUMORS ARE true. Amazon is providing cloud services to the CIA. But what's most intriguing about the multi-million-dollar deal is not what Amazon is doing, but how the company is doing it – and...
Why Amazon’s Collaboration With the CIA Is So Ominous — and Vulnerable
As the world’s biggest online retailer, Amazon wants a benevolent image to encourage trust from customers. Obtaining vast quantities of their personal information has been central to the firm’s business model. But Amazon is diversifying — and a few months ago the...
The Details About the CIA’s Deal With Amazon
A $600 million computing cloud built by an outside company is a "radical departure" for the risk-averse intelligence community. The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest. This summer, a $600 million computing cloud...
Salesforce’s partnership with Amazon is helping solve one of its biggest problems
Salesforce says its partnership with AWS is helping accelerate its growth in overseas markets. Salesforce still gets the bulk of its revenue from the North America market, with European and Asian markets accounting for less than 30% of its total sales. It continues to...
Microsoft finally releases its secret weapon in the cloud wars with Amazon and Google
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president of cloud and enterprise. Microsoft has long maintained that it has a secret weapon in the cloud wars against the Amazon Web Services juggernaut. The weapon is Microsoft's existing inroads into the business software...