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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