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The latest Amazon Web Services news articles from AWSInsider.net.


Report Shows Security Tools Most Popular on AWS

Being an original premier partner of Amazon Web Services Inc. and a specialist in helping enterprises move to the cloud, 2ndWatch has a unique perspective on AWS usage trends, which it shared in a report that revealed security tools were the most popular third-party purchase.

NetApp Introduces AltaVault for Cloud Backup

NetApp today introduced the AltaVault cloud-integrated storage solution, promising cheaper backup to the AWS cloud.

ObserveIT Seeks to Fill AWS Security Gaps

ObserveIT has launched CloudThreat, a free tool to augment the baked-in security of the Amazon Web Services cloud IaaS platform through user activity monitoring to detect cyber attacks.

AWS Beats Azure in Gartner Magic Quadrant Market Research Report

Gartner Inc. pointed to Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as the only "leaders" in its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) classification of cloud providers in a Magic Quadrant market research report.

Cloud Innovation Focusing on Temporary Jobs

Call them Spot Instances, Preemptible VMs or whatever, but short-lived, non-mission-critical, temporary cloud compute jobs are emerging as a second front in the cloud compute wars.

OpsWorks Management Tool Now Supports Windows

Amazon Web Services added support for Windows Server 2012 R2 to its OpsWorks application management service.

Researcher Says IaaS Cloud Industry in 'State of Upheaval'

With cloud computing overtaking on-premises datacenters, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service arena dominated by Amazon Web Services is in a state of upheaval, according to research firm Gartner, as major industry players shake themselves out.

Cloud Price Wars Continue with Google Cuts

With today's news of Google Cloud Platform price cuts, users of the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud are likely anticipating a response from their service, based on the past history of cloud vendors' tit-for-tat matching of pricing moves.

Azure Edges Amazon in Cloud Storage Testing

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage edged out Amazon Simple Storage Service in performance testing conducted by enterprise cloud storage company Nasuni Corp.

AWS Educate Launched for Learning Cloud Technologies

Amazon Web Services today officially launched AWS Educate, a free service for educators and students designed to prepare IT pros, developers and business staffers to enter the cloud workforce.

Ravello Puts Networking Labs on AWS

Ravello Systems launched Smart Labs for the Amazon and Google clouds for testing networking and security implementations.

AppScale Provides FastStart for AWS App Deployment

Though its rapid application development platform is based on Google App Engine, AppScale Systems Inc. today announced a tool to help users deploy apps on the competing Amazon Web Services Inc cloud.

Microsoft Offers Tool To Manage Clouds -- Including AWS

Microsoft continued its assault on cloud market leader Amazon Web Services with the introduction of a tool to manage resources in clouds of any type, including AWS.

NetSuite Abandoning AWS for Microsoft Cloud

NetSuite is moving its ERP software from Amazon Web Services to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Ruxit Seeks To Improve CloudWatch Monitoring

Ruxit, an application performance management company, announced it has added the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud to its list of supported technologies.

Mesosphere Puts Datacenter OS Beta on AWS

Mesosphere is putting its Datacenter Operating System on the cloud as a public beta project.

Amazon Grabs Spot Instances Specialist ClusterK

Amazon isn't providing details, but the company confirmed it has acquired ClusterK Inc., which specializes in helping enterprises save money by bidding on unused compute instances, called Spot Instances.

Microsoft Targets AWS Redshift with New Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Microsoft made no bones about who it was targeting with its new Azure SQL Data Warehouse during yesterday's opening keynote address at its Build developer conference.

Analysts Mull Whether AWS Should Be Spun Off

In the wake of Amazon.com's earnings report last week, in which the company broke out earnings for Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the first time, analysts are debating whether the retail giant should spin off its cloud business.

SAS Puts Statistical 'University' on Amazon Cloud

SAS Institute Inc. is putting its SAS University Edition statistical software on the AWS marketplace for educational and non-commercial use.

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