Amazon Reinvent: new products announced including Aurora database with...
Amazon is holding its third Reinvent conference in Las Vegas – 13,500 attendees catching up on Amazon’s Web Services platform. In this morning’s keynote, Amazon’s Senior VP of cloud services Andy Jassy...
View ArticleQuick reflections on Amazon re:Invent, open source, and Amazon Web Services
Last week I was in Las Vegas for my first visit to Amazon’s annual developer conference re:Invent. There were several announcements, the biggest being a new relational database service called RDS...
View ArticleAWS Summit London: cloud growth, understanding Lambda, Machine Learning
I attended the Amazon Web Services (AWS) London Summit. Not much news there, since the big announcements were the week before in San Francisco, but a chance to drill into some of the AWS services and...
View ArticleAWS Summit London 2016: no news but strong content, and a little bit of Echo
I attended day two (the developer day) of the Amazon Web Services Summit at the ExCel conference centre in London yesterday. A few quick observations. It was a big event. I am not sure how many...
View ArticleAmazon Web Services opens London data centers
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened a London Region, fulfilling its promise to open data centers in the UK, and joining Microsoft Azure which opened UK data centers in September 2016. This is the...
View ArticleVMware Cloud on AWS: a game changer? What about Microsoft’s Azure Stack?
The biggest announcement from VMWorld in Las Vegas and then Barcelona was VMware Cloud on AWS; essentially VMware hosts on AWS servers. A key point is that this really is VMware on AWS infrastructure;...
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Amazon offering Linux desktops as a service in WorkSpaces
Amazon Web Services now offers Linux desktops as part of its WorkSpaces desktop-as-a-service offering. The distribution is called Amazon Linux 2 and includes the MATE desktop environment. Most virtual...
View ArticleUbuntu goes minimal (but still much bigger than Alpine Linux), cosies up to...
Ubuntu has announced “Minimal Ubuntu”, a cut-down server image designed for containerised deployments. The Docker image for Minimal Ubuntu 18.04 is 29MB: Editors, documentation, locales and other...
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AWS embraces hybrid cloud? Meet Snowball Edge
Amazon has announced Snowball Edge, an on-premises appliance that supports Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), AWS Lambda (“serverless” computing) and S3 (Simple Storage Service), all running locally....
View ArticleMicrosoft’s strong financials, and some notes on Azure vs AWS and the risks...
Microsoft delivered another strong set of figures in its latest financial results, for the period April-June 2018. Total revenue of $30.085 million was up 17% year on year, and all three of the...
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