by ray | Jul 13, 2018 | Microsoft, Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft is catching up to Amazon in obtaining federal security approvals, giving it an edge over other potential bidders in the Pentagon’s winner-take-all competition for a multibillion-dollar cloud-computing contract. The company best-known for its office software...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | Amazon, General News
Amazon.com needs help going the final mile. The online retailer says it will offer incentives to get entrepreneurs to set up their own small package-delivery businesses as part of Amazon’s latest effort to solve the challenge of getting goods to customer...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS)
I run all my EC2 workloads on Amazon Linux. It comes with a superb AWS integration, a secure default configuration, regular security updates, and I can open AWS Support tickets if I run into any problems. In late December 2017, AWS announced the successor of Amazon...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The following procedures help you install an Apache web server with PHP and MariaDB (a community-developed fork of MySQL) support on your Amazon Linux 2 instance (sometimes called a LAMP web server or LAMP stack). You can use this server to host a static website or...
by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The unfortunate reality about running a web service is that every now and again, you’re going to have downtime. Even the best web companies have the occasional blip in service. If downtime is inevitable, then it’s best to plan ahead so that you can be ready. After...