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    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. 05/21/2015

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    OpsWorks Management Tool Now Supports Windows

    Amazon Web Services added support for Windows Server 2012 R2 to its OpsWorks application management service. 05/20/2015

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    The Power of AWS Object Store

    On using Amazon S3 to wrangle complex and constantly changing datasets. 05/19/2015

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    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. 05/19/2015

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    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. 05/18/2015

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    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. 05/15/2015

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    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. 05/14/2015

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    Ravello Puts Networking Labs on AWS

    Ravello Systems launched Smart Labs for the Amazon and Google clouds for testing networking and security implementations. 05/13/2015

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    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. 05/12/2015

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    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. 05/11/2015

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    NetSuite Abandoning AWS for Microsoft Cloud

    NetSuite is moving its ERP software from Amazon Web Services to the Microsoft Azure cloud. 05/07/2015

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    Do You Have a Handle on Your AWS Costs?

    Just like with your credit card issuer, there can be "hidden" fees with AWS that you don't know about until you get the bill. 05/05/2015

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    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. 05/05/2015

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    Mesosphere Puts Datacenter OS Beta on AWS

    Mesosphere is putting its Datacenter Operating System on the cloud as a public beta project. 05/04/2015

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    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. 05/01/2015

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    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. 04/30/2015

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    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. 04/29/2015

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    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. 04/29/2015

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    Having Silenced IaaS Doubters, What's Next for AWS?

    Well, Infrastructure as a Service works, and Amazon Web Services Inc.'s recent quarterly financial results report shows the cloud company is doing pretty well with it, at least temporarily silencing doubters as it continues to hold off stiff competition from some of the most powerful companies in the world. So now what? 04/28/2015

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    Atlassian Updates Stash Product with AWS Support

    Version 3.8 of Stash, the Git-based distributed version control system (DVCS) from collaboration and development toolmaker Atlassian, now supports deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. 04/27/2015

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