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The best public high school in every state

Each state has a ton of public high schools, but some really stand out. Niche, a company that researches and compiles information on schools, just released its 2016 rankings of the best public high schools in the US. We took a look at which school earned the top slot...

The best private high school in every state

The Potomac School is the top private high school in Virginia.Facebook/The Potomac School America's best private high schools have a reputation for providing a top-notch education and preparing students for life at an elite university — and these great schools can be...

Amazon launches EC2 Container Registry for storing container images

Above: Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels announces the EC2 Container Registry at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 8. Amazon Web Services today announced the EC2 Container Registry, a new tool for storing container images for parts of...

Using Enhanced RDS Monitoring with Datadog

AWS recently announced enhanced monitoring for Amazon RDS instances running MySQL, MariaDB, and Aurora. Enhanced monitoring includes over 50 new CPU, memory, file system, and disk I/O metrics which can be collected on a per-instance basis as frequently as once per...

Amazon ECS turns Docker containers into the new VMs

Credit: Getty Images After Google went all-in on Docker with Container Engine, it was only a matter of time before Amazon took similar action. In Thursday's keynote speech at AWS Reinvent, Amazon unveiled the EC2 Container Service(ECS), currently available as a...