Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: Microsoft Earnings Special Edition (January 2020)
The sun sets on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Office 2010 Because Microsoft announced its most recent quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes is going to obsess over the...
View ArticlePaul Thurrott’s Short Takes: Microsoft Earnings Special Edition (October 2019)
Because it’s that time of the quarter, this edition of Short Takes looks solely at Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report, which was huge for Commercial Cloud, Microsoft 365, and Windows, and not so...
View ArticleAWS CodePipeline Introduces Support for GitLab
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced support for GitLab in its AWS CodePipeline service. This release allows developers to leverage their GitLab.com source repository to build, test, and deploy...
View ArticleAWS Unveils New Dedicated Local Zones Service for Critical Workloads
Key takeaways: Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of its new Dedicated Local Zones this week. It’s a robust solution for handling sensitive data and critical workloads while adhering to...
View ArticleTaking Advantage of Free AWS Training
With the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders still in place, many of us are working at home and the slower pace has meant that some of us have a little extra time on hands. One great way to take advantage of...
View ArticleAWS re:Post Takes on Stack Overflow
There’s no doubt that the Internet can be a great resource for technical information and solutions to the problems that you face. However, it can also be a source of misinformation, dead ends and a...
View ArticleAWS to Start Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses in February 2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to charge organizations for the use of public IPv4 addresses. Starting on February 1, 2024, AWS customers will need to pay $0.005 per IP address per hour for all...
View ArticleMicrosoft Streamlines Log Ingestion with New Sentinel AWS S3 Connector
Key Takeaways: Microsoft has released the AWS S3 connector for Microsoft Sentinel. The new Microsoft Sentinel AWS S3 connector can ingest logs from various AWS services, facilitating monitoring and...
View ArticlePaul Thurrott’s Short Takes: November 22 2019
You’ve got balls, Microsoft! Because millennials always have the answers, this week’s edition of Short Takes looks at Slack’s response to a Microsoft rip-off, Amazon suing over Microsoft’s JEDI...
View ArticleAmazon Launches a New AWS Management Console
Amazon started off this new year with one pretty big change for Amazon Web Services (AWS). They updated the AWS Management Console. The AWS Management Console is probably the most frequently used AWS...
View ArticleWhat is AWS (Amazon Web Services)? – The Ultimate Guide
You may certainly be familiar with the terms that begin with ‘the cloud’ like cloud computing, cloud storage, or cloud platforms. Simply put, the term ‘cloud’ encompasses all the processes and...
View ArticleAmazon Adds Replication to EFS
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) allows EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions and containers to share access to a fully-managed, high performance and highly available file system. Amazon EFS...
View ArticleAmazon FSx for Windows File Server Gets FedRAMP Compliance
Earlier this week, Amazon announced some important compliance updates for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. The company says that its popular cloud file storage service is finally FedRAMP compliant....
View ArticleAmazon Adds Batch Replication to S3
After experiencing several regional outages late last year, Amazon has been adding replication technologies to several of their main storage technologies. Last month, Amazon added replication to their...
View ArticleHow to Use the Terraform AWS Provider
The Terraform AWS provider lets you connect Terraform with Amazon cloud services such as AWS Elasticbeanstalk, AWS Lambda, etc. And unless you have the Terraform Amazon Web Services (AWS) provider...
View ArticleAmazon Adds AWS Backup to S3
There’s no doubt that file systems are some of the most fundamental cloud services, as they provide storage for cloud-native apps, hybrid apps, and on-premise backups. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Backup...
View ArticleAmazon Relaunches AWS Educate
Earlier this month, Amazon relaunched its AWS Educate offering, which is a set of learning courses that are designed specifically for pre-professional learners. As a part of the relaunch, AWS Educate...
View ArticleAWS Snow Family Now Supports Remote Monitoring and Operations
AWS Snowball customers can now manage their connected Snowball Edge devices remotely. IT Pros can now operate these devices from AWS OpsHub or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), even when these...
View ArticleAmazon Announces the Ability to Deploy EKS Clusters on AWS Outposts
Amazon announced last week the availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on AWS Outposts. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that enables you to use the...
View ArticleAmazon Launches a New AWS Management Console
Amazon started off this new year with one pretty big change for Amazon Web Services (AWS). They updated the AWS Management Console. The AWS Management Console is probably the most frequently used AWS...
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