AWS Launches Turbocharged Cloud Virtual Desktop.

Amazon Web Services has launched a new cloud virtual desktop which provides users with turbocharged machine they can access over the internet. The bundle is meant for the developers, data analysts and other users who want compute and memory-heavy lifting to get their work done.  Specifications : 4 Virtual CPUs 16 GiB RAM 275 GB Storage Pricing : Users will have to pay $78/month for a Power bundle WorkSpace running in AWS’ US-East (Northern Virginia) region. Users...

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AWS Lowers The Prices Of Reserved Instances & M4 Instances.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) lowers the prices of Reserved Instances along with introduction of “No upfront” payment option for 3 year standard RIs. Moreover AWS reduces the prices of M4 instance family (both On-demand & Reserved Instances). This is 61st price reduction by the AWS. All the changes are made effective immediately. Here are the details : 1. New No Upfront Payment Option...

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AWS Elastic Volume Changes The Way You Have Been Using EBS.

AWS launches new EBS feature called Elastic Volumes which allows you to increase volume size, adjust performance or change the volume type while the volume is in use. The feature is available for all current-generation EBS volumes attached to current-generation EC2 instances.  Use cases : Change the volume type on the go. Increase provisioned IOPS of volume to handle...

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AWS drops prices of C4, M4, and T2 instances by up to 25 percent.

The cloud market leaded Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced price cuts for a few types of virtual machine (VM) instances. Price cuts are only specific to certain AWS data center regions.  C4 price cuts are only applicable in following regions : US East (Northern Virginia) : Prices dropped by 5 percent EU (Ireland) : Prices dropped by 5 percent Asia Pacific (Mumbai) : Prices dropped...

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AWS Launches Application Load Balancer Option For ELB.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new Application Load Balancer Option for Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). This option runs at Layer 7 and supports a number of advanced features. The original option (now called a Classic Load Balancer) is still available and continues to offer Layer 4 and Layer 7 functionality. Application Load Balancers support following functionality : Content-based...

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OpsDev Is Coming.

OpsDev means that the dependencies of the various application components must be understood and modeled first before the development process begins.  As you can see, the delivery of such personalized software services impacts the design paradigm and now must be inverted. While DevOps tends to start with the developer-led challenges, it ultimately sits in the wheelhouse of operations...

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AWS Announces Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region.

The leading cloud service provider, AWS (Amazon Web Services) has announced immediate availability of the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Mumbai is the sixth AWS Region in Asia along with Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. It becomes thirteenth worldwide region. It brings the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 35 worldwide. The new Mumbai Region is currently available for...

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Top 10 Most Challenging Tech Jobs For Companies To Fill.

Finding the perfect employee/employer match takes time, patience and often a little bit of compromise. Tech companies today struggle with hiring, particularly within a few specific roles. Recent study by Indeed.com has revealed that DevOps engineer is the hardest IT job to fill in North America. Below is the list of top 10 most difficult tech jobs for which companies are struggling to fill up. Reference...

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Capital One Open Sources Cloud Custodian AWS Resource Management Tool.

Capital One is a huge organization with lots of compliance issues related to being a financial services company. It also an Amazon Web Services customer and it needed a tool to set rules and policies in an efficient way around AWS usage. Last July it started developing the tool that would become Cloud Custodian. On 19th April, 2016 it announced at an AWS event in Chicago that it was making Cloud...

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Amazon Web Services Adds New Datacenter Region In UK.

Amazon has announced that it is opening a datacenter region in the UK. This new region will provide customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, big data analysis, Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and more. The advantages of a UK regional center include even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. The new...

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