AWS is constantly updating their instance offerings, providing you with the latest and greatest technologies in their quest to provide better price performance. While updating your applications to launch on the latest instance types may require a little testing –…
Read MoreLaunched in 2010, Amazon’s Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) class was a cheaper storage class than the standard S3 storage class, with one caveat. While standard S3 durability was 99.999999999%, this new class was only 99.99% durable. It was designed to…
Read MoreStratCloud elevates to Advanced Tier Technology Partner status with the AWS Partner Network! StratCloud has met the strict quality standards set by the AWS Partner Network (APN) to reach Advanced Technology Partner Status. Becoming and Advanced Technology Partner differentiates StratCloud…
Read MoreAWS Glue offers fully managed, serverless and cloud-optimized extract, transform and load (ETL) services. Built for any job, it allows customers the flexibility of processing large quantities of data, while relying on AWS to manage the overall service and deal…
Read MoreAmazon Athena is a new serverless query service which is great for accessing the data you have stored in S3. Athena is running Presto under the hood. By parallelizing the query, Athena provides a huge amount of performance over extremely…
Read MoreAmazon first launched their T2 instance family in 2014. This particular type of instance offers “Burst” capacity, which is great for spiky workloads that may be relatively idle for large periods of the day, but need lots of performance when…
Read MoreThe AWS Summit in Atlanta, located in the George World Congress Center is set to be even bigger than last year. Held on Sept 13, 2018 – one can only hope that the weather will have cooled down by then. …
Read MoreAWS’s New York Summit is located at the Javits center again this year. With its great glass exterior and roof, it is a great event to attend. Don’t forget to pay attention during Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com keynote event.…
Read MoreThe AWS Puclic Sector Summit in Washington, DC is set to be another great even this year. Taking over Lalmost the entire Walter E. Washington convention center, there may be a record crowd this year! last years event was a…
Read MoreThe AWS Chicago Summit is right around the corner. Last year, the summit took over the entire McCormick Place Lake Side conference center and it was busting at the seams with attendees. This year, with the conference located across the…
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