It is a very interesting time to be a corporate IT administrator. On the one hand, developers are talking about (and implementing) an idyllic future where infrastructure as code, and treating servers and other resources as cattle. On the other hand, legacy systems still must be treated as pets, set up and maintained by hand or with the aid of limited automation.… Read more

Updated: It is believed information belonging to thousands of GoDaddy systems was leaked due to the failure. Nobody challenges AWS dominance in the cloud infrastructure sector An error in Amazon AWS bucket configuration has led to the exposure of internal information belonging to hosting provider GoDaddy. Cybersecurity firm UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team said on Thursday that a set of documents were left in an Amazon S3 bucket which was available to the public.… Read more

Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. (GeekWire Photo) Amazon’s cloud business may get much of the attention for bolstering the company’s bottom line. But an emerging new advertising arm of Amazon is also fueling record profits for the Seattle tech giant. Amazon on Thursday posted revenue of $52.9 billion and profits of $2.5 billion for its second quarter.… Read more