Amazon Web Services - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Charting your path to modernisation and the cloud

  When it comes to cloud, in many cases it’s best to leave it to the experts.

• AWS rolls out Outposts for on-premises hybrid cloud

  Cisco, Aruba and Juniper are supporting Amazon's Outposts hybrid-cloud service supported by hardware in customers' private data centres.

• Animal Logic goes cloud with AWS for visual effects

  Creative digital studio Animal Logic has selected public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide computing capacity for its visual effects and animation rending.

• Cisco goes deep into AWS Outposts with SD-WAN, data centre, security support

  Cisco took its integration with AWS to a new level by integrating its SD-WAN, network services and security with Outposts.

• NIB shifts health data to AWS cloud

  Private health insurer, NIB, has completed what it claims is a major milestone in the Australian cloud landscape, announcing it has shifted the system of record for its corporate business, GU Health, to AWS.

• Free Amazon Web Services -- and how to make the most of them

  If you avoid some gotchas and keep a close eye on resource usage, you can have a handy server in the Amazon cloud for free

• Open source innovation is now all about vendor on-ramps

  AWS, Microsoft, and Google are all racing to figure out how to turn their innovations into open source on-ramps to their proprietary services

• The critics are wrong about AWS’s open source approach

  Open source contributions aren’t selfless charity but a virtuous intersection of corporate, user, and community benefit. Which is how AWS approaches open source

• Black Hat: 9 free security tools for defense & attacking

  When Black Hat convenes next week in Las Vegas, it will be a rich environment for gathering tools that can be used to tighten security but also - in the wrong hands - to carry out exploits.

• Why Dropbox dropped Amazon's Cloud

  Dropbox has culminated a multi-year project to build a customised infrastructure environment that company officials say is finely tuned to their specific needs, allowing them to reap savings compared with how they used Amazon Web Services' cloud. Should you get out of the cloud too?

• Standards are coming for containers

  A list of leading cloud, storage and virtualization companies are backing a new effort named the Open Container Project, which aims to create a set of standards for the fast-growing technology.

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  TechnologyOne Uses NetApp to Optimize Cloud Services

  TechnologyOne is Australia’s largest enterprise software company. The company had two world-class data centres in Brisbane but after a three-day outage caused by the 2011 floods, it moved away from having its own data centres, opting instead to buy Infrastructure-as-a-Service from Amazon Web Services (AWS). After four years of developing innovative cloud services, TechnologyOne saw that cloud storage was becoming a critical issue for its customers. So it called in NetApp to help it find the most cost-efficient, scalable and agile data management solution.

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  The Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Planning Guide

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  Migrating to AWS: Best Practices and Strategies