Like my 1st grade teacher would tell me when I ended a sentence with this preposition……”It’s between the ‘A’ and the ‘T’”. Well, in this situation, it’s between the “cloud” and the “on premise”. More and more companies are starting to explore and use Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as a viable option for developing […]
Posts Tagged ‘AWS’
Amazon Web Services Goes Down – Availability In the Cloud
So CRN had an article about Amazon Web Services going down this past Monday. While that is certainly news, especially to a small number of people, I want to focus on total impact rather than the big scary word called outage. Our reality in the cloud is that high availability cannot be achieved in the […]
Amazon Adds Identity Management to The Cloud
So Amazon is definitely up to something. I noted yesterday that AWS offers free database access and now Amazon is touting something almost every enterprise site needs with a Sign Sign On (SSO) and Identity Management service. Jack McCarthy of CRN has an article about the new service in the AWS Marketplace. Clearly Amazon is […]
Amazon Web Services Gives Customer Free Database Access
I found the CRN article describing Amazon’s adding their Relational Database Services to its Free Usage Tier. What I find interesting is that when AWS became a household name (OK, industry wide name) about two years ago, my first thought was that vendors like IBM, Oracle, JBoss, and Liferay ought to just add the db […]
The 10 Biggest Mistakes Made With Amazon Web Services
Techcrunch has an interesting article about the top 10 biggest mistakes made with Amazon Web Services. While I don’t want to just copy what they say, I can see a lot of easy mistakes. For those who think in terms of an internal data center that has to scale to meet all future needs and […]